Afghanistan.- Burnes ( Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander) Cabool: being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836, 7, and 8, first edition , engraved portrait, 11 plates, most lithographed, 2 folding, 7 tinted, erratum leaf and 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some foxing and soiling, mostly to plates, frontispiece with marginal staining to lower out corner, original green cloth, rubbed, recased, new endpapers, 8vo, 1842. ⁂ In 1836 Burnes was sent on a political mission to Dost Mohammed in Kabul and as a result advised the British to support Dost Mohammed's claim to the throne. The British instead reinstated the puppet ruler Shah Shuja which angered Dost Mohammed and caused him to turn to the Russians. Burnes returned to Kabul as political agent in 1839 and was murdered there by an Afghan mob in 1841, leading to the disastrous First Afghan War.
Afghanistan.- Burnes ( Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander) Cabool: being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836, 7, and 8, first edition , engraved portrait, 11 plates, most lithographed, 2 folding, 7 tinted, erratum leaf and 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some foxing and soiling, mostly to plates, frontispiece with marginal staining to lower out corner, original green cloth, rubbed, recased, new endpapers, 8vo, 1842. ⁂ In 1836 Burnes was sent on a political mission to Dost Mohammed in Kabul and as a result advised the British to support Dost Mohammed's claim to the throne. The British instead reinstated the puppet ruler Shah Shuja which angered Dost Mohammed and caused him to turn to the Russians. Burnes returned to Kabul as political agent in 1839 and was murdered there by an Afghan mob in 1841, leading to the disastrous First Afghan War.
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