[Rarebooks] FS - First Afghan War, 1841

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HOUGH, Major W. /A NARRATIVE OF THE MARCH AND OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY OF 
THE INDUS, IN THE EXPEDITION TO AFFGHANISTAN IN THE YEARS 1838-1839/. 
/Illustrated by a Map, Views of Candahar, Ghuznee, and Cabool, and 
Various Tables. Comprising also the History of the Dooranee Empire from 
its Foundation to the Present Time/.Bound in original blind-ruled brown 
cloth with gilt lettering, folding map, and three engravings. Wm. H. 
Allen and Co., London. 1841. 1st edition. Thick 8vo. Pagination: pp. xl, 
[folding map], 1 - 443, [blank], 1 - 95 (Appendix, Errata and Addenda), 
[blank], [1 - 16] (Publisher's catalogue).

William Hough served with the 48th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, and 
later became Deputy Judge Advocate General of the "Bengal Column, Army 
of the Indus". After completion of this remarkable first-hand account, 
he confined himself in the future to writing several works on military 
law. This is Hough's account of the operations of the British Army 
against the various tribes ofAfghanistan, during what is referred to as 
the first "Afghan War", in order to secure the north-west frontier of 
British India. It is both detailed and expansive. The large folding map 
is titled "A Sketch Map of the States Bordering on the Indus River and 
of Afghanistan shewing the Routes marched by the Army of the Indus 
Composed of Troops from the Precidencies of Bengal and Bombay under the 
personal command of His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, 
Commander in Chief." It  has a large closed tear (now repaired with 
achival-quality tape) and the usual creasing and light foxing, but is 
otherwise in quite nice condition. The three plates are foxed and show 
the views as described in the subtitle. There is a half inch piece of 
cloth missing from the spine bottom, and the joints are cracked. The 
boards are bumped, and lightly scuffed & soiled. The hinges are cracked 
and the binding is sprung. The contents are still reasonably tight and 
are suprisingly clean and little foxed. A good copy of a very scarce title.

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