A highly unusual copy of the first French edition of Sir Alexander Burnes' account of his journey through Sikh territories and to Bokhara, Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara et retour par la Perse, both volumes bound by his brother in leather from the boots worn by Burnes in making his journey Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835 (2)

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A highly unusual copy of the first French edition of Sir Alexander Burnes' account of his journey through Sikh territories and to Bokhara, Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara et retour par la Perse, both volumes bound by his brother in leather from the boots worn by Burnes in making his journey Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835 (2)

LOT 254• A highly unusual copy of the first French edition of Sir Alexander Burnes' account of his journey through Sikh territories and to Bokhara, Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara et retour par la Perse, both volumes bound by his brother in leather from the boots worn by Burnes in making his journey Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835 (2)

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three volumes bound in two, translated by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyriès, half-title and lithographed portrait of Burnes after Daniel Maclise in vol. I, inscribed by Dr James Burnes on front endpaper, vol. III with eleven numbered plates including one (folding) of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and one large folding map, contemporary half diced calf, marbled covers, stamped gilt spines with insignia and motto of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, or perhaps the Inniskilling Fusiliers 212 x 140 mm.(2)

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