Book Description

LIMITED EDITION FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - ROUTES IN AFGHANISTAN One of 1500 copies (stamped copy no. 594 to the title page). Folding map in front pocket ‘INDEX MAP to routes in S.E. Afghanistan’, 8vo, m.s. felt-tip marks to blank endpaper. Bound in the original beige buckram boards, titles and stamp printed in black, remnants of a label on the spine; lightly stained, m.s. crayon notation, front board shaken but the hinge is remaining firm, nick to the rear pastedown.
Dealer Notes
A revised official governmental book covering 15 through-routes in South Eastern Afghanistan. It covers a geographical area of Afghanistan east of Kandahar, encompassing Quetta and rising up to Kabul in the north and Kohat in the East. It was a book prepared for service in the field, acting as a reference for soldiers travelling along the roots as part of the British Army.
Author GENERAL STAFF INDIA
Date 1928
Binding Hardback
Publisher General Staff India
Condition G
Pages xvii, 433, [1 (blank)]pp.

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