‎Afghanistan‎

‎[Afghanistan] Tarzi, Zemaryalaï‎

‎L'Architecture et le décor rupestre des grottes de Bāmiyān [2 volumes]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, coll. « Bibliothèque du Centre de recherches sur l'Asie centrale et la Haute-Asie. Archéologie en Asie centrale et en Afghanistan », n° 1 1977 2 volumes. In-4 28 x 22 cm. Brochés, couvertures bleues, auteur & titre en noir sur les dos et les premiers plats, XVIII-201 pp., notes en bas de page, annexes, bibliographie, table des matières - 166 pp., 190 figures, 63 planches, 5 planches et plans replés sous pochette.‎

‎Vol.1, Texte - Vol. 2, Planches & Cartes. Très bon état d’occasion‎

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‎[AFGHANISTAN].-‎

‎Revue trimestrielle artistique, littéraire, historique et culturelle.-‎

‎Direction Générale des Publications. AFMA. Kaboul. 1947. 2°Année, 1er trimestre seul. 1 fascicule in -8 ( 180 x 245mm) broché, couverture imprimée, 50 pages, illustrations hors texte. Qq.notes manuscrites. Couverture un peu insolée sinon bon état. Rare.‎

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‎[AFGHANISTAN].-‎

‎Revue trimestrielle artistique, littéraire, historique et culturelle.-‎

‎Direction Générale des Publications. AFMA. Kaboul. 1949. 4° Année,1°et 2°trimestres. 2 fascicules in-8 (ca 180 x 245mm) brochés, couvertures imprimées et illustrées, 67 et 57 pages, illustrations hors texte. Qq.notes manuscrites. Textes en français et en anglais. Couvertures un peu insolées sinon bon état. Rares.‎

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‎[Archéologia]‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIA‎

‎N° 562 (Février 2018) 82 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Lyon, les révélations de l'archéologie ; Israël, archéologie et politique ; Bactres, cité mythique d'Afghanistan, etc.‎

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‎[Archéologia]‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIA‎

‎N° 430 (Février 2006) : revue de 82 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Une bataille pour le patrimoine : L'Etat italien contre le Getty Muséum ; Egypte : les révélations du coffret de Lahmès ; Une restitution du château de Lillebonne (Seine-Maritime) ; Le site portuaire de Novioregum sur la Gironde ; Tanzani : Kilwa, capitale de l'or ; Art bouddhique : découvertes en Afghanistan, etc.‎

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‎[Archéologia]‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIA‎

‎N° 461 (Décembre 2008) : revue de 82 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Prestigieux trésors des princes mérovingiens exposés à Saint-Dizier ; 1.600 ans de Bouddhisme en Corée ; Akhénaton et Néfertiti, soleil et ombres des pharaons ; Nos ancêtres les Barbares ; Kaboul, foyer d'art bouddhique, etc.‎

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‎[Archéologia]‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIA‎

‎N° 550 (Janvier 2017) : revue de 82 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Le Rozel, une dune occupée par Néandertal en Normandie ; Sur la Route de l'encens : les royaumes du sud de l'Arabie ; Afghanistan : Mes Aynak, les enjeux d'un site majeur ; Rouen : le monument juif du palais de justice ; Egypte : dans les jardins de Pharaon, etc.‎

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‎[Great Britain, Afghanistan].‎

‎Correspondence Respecting the Relations between the British Government and that of Afghanistan since the accession of the Ameer Shere Ali Khan; with Further Correspondence Respecting Central Asia. C.-2188; with Further Papers Relating to the Affairs of Afghanistan. C.-2250; with Further Correspondence. C.-2401; with Further Correspondence. C.-2402; with Despatch from Government of India including copy of report. containing a statement of the cases tried before the military commission. C.-2523; with Papers Relating to the Occupation of Kandahar. C.-2811; with Further Papers Relating to the Occupation of Kandahar. C.-2852; with Further Papers Relating to the Occupation of Kandahar. C.-2865; with Correspondence Respecting Affairs in Central Asia. C.-2798; with Further Despatch Respecting Affairs in Central Asia. C.-2802; with Further Correspondence Relating to the Estimates for the War in Afghanistan. C.-2772; and Further Correspondence Relating to the Affairs of Afghanistan includin‎

‎London HMSO; Harrison and Sons 1878-1881. . First editions; two volumes containing fifteen works 4to 33 x 21.5 cm; bookplates to pastedowns a occasional small chips to upper margin otherwise internally fine; first volume in half red morocco cloth boards gilt lettering to flat spine minor wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy; second volume in half blue calf cloth boards gilt spine with gilt morocco lettering piece all edges gilt slight wear a little chipping to head and foot of spine shelf mark to spine otherwise a very good copy; vi 266; ii 27; 17; 37; 6; 9; 87; 14; 8; 31; 4; 14; iv 107; 87; v 165pp.<br /> A collection of fifteen works of government correspondence and dispatches charting the British relationship with Afghanistan and by extension Russia from 1863 to 1881 culminating in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The 'Central Asian Question' the Great Game saw its denouement play out in the Second Second Anglo-Afghan War and following boundary negotiations in the 1880s and 90s.<br /><br />The letters and despatches contained in these works contain an enormous amount of detail about the politics economics and diplomacy of Britain and Afghanistan in this period in particular the war years of 1879-1881. Important figures such as James Bruce Sir Henry Rawlinson John Lawrence Henry Marion Durand Lord Mayo Robert Napier Edward Bulwer-Lytton Granville Leveson-Gower and Spencer Cavendish all penned or put their name to the letters and despatches in these volumes and reveal the attitudes of the British government at the time. What perhaps stands out the most is the fragility of the British temperament in regards to either real or imagined Russian influence in Afghanistan and the constant shuffling of Amirs in a vain attempt to turn Afghanistan into a puppet state. Although the military actions of the Second Anglo-Afghan War were considered successful by the British Government deposing Yaqub Khan and his brother Ayub Khan from the throne it was also vastly expensive to the tune of nearly 20 million pounds and did not result in any territorial gains or subjugation of the region.<br /><br />The owner who bound the first volume titled the spine 'Afghanistan Betrayed by Lord Beaconsfield to Russia'. This is a strong statement considering Afghanistan preserved its independence and status as a buffer zone following the evacuation of Kandahar and Afghanistan by the British Army. It is an even stronger statement given that the trigger of the conflict Britain's retaliation to Afghanistan hospitality to Russian envoys is widely understood to have been the Viceroy of India Lord Lytton's doing and in direct opposition to orders from Disraeli himself. Perhaps the accusation speaks most to the accentuated fears around Russia and the decline of the influence of the British Empire.<br /> London, HMSO; Harrison and Sons, 1878-1881. hardcover‎

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‎[Géopolitique]‎

‎GEOPOLITIQUE n° 64 (Janvier 1999)‎

‎Revue trimestrielle de l'Institut international de géopolitique : environ 100 pages, format 210 x 280 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs‎

‎Au sommaire, entre autres : Spécial Iran : Comment peut-on être Persan ? De Khomeiny à Khatami ; L'Iran, l'Asie Centrale et l'Afghanistan ; Iran et Turquie : confluences et ambiguïtés ; Iran, monde arabe, Israël : enjeux géopolitiques des rivalités et des alliances‎

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‎[L'OEIL]‎

‎L'OEIL‎

‎N° 588 - Février 2007 - Revue internationale d'art : 130 pages, format 230 x 300 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Une exposition exceptionnelle : cinq siècles de génie espagnol ; Les frères Chapman, mauvais garçons de la scène anglaise ; La folle passion de Juliette Drouet pour Victor Hugo ; Les trésors rescapés d'Afghanistan au musée Guimet, etc.‎

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‎[ORIENTALISME] [MUSEE GUIMET]‎

‎Etudes d'Orientalisme publiées par le Musée Guimet à la Mémoire de Raymonde Linossier (Avocate à la Cour d'Appel de Paris, Attachée au Musée Guimet)‎

‎Paris, Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1932. 2 volumes in-8, 569 pp. (1-286 et 287-569), brochés, non coupés, richement illustrés de croquis et figures dans le texte et de 70 planches, en noir et blanc, à pleine page, situées in fine des 2 tomes.‎

‎Bel ensemble d'études orientalistes signées des grands noms de spécialistes de l'époque: Articles de R. Grousset, J. Bacot, E. Benveniste, A.K. Coomaraswamy, S. Elisseev, O. Lacombe, S. Levi, H. Maspero, P. Masson-Oursel, etc. - Table des Matières: Tome I: Les peintures tibétaines de la collection Loo - L'iconographie de la "Descente dAmida" - La conversion d'un chasseur - Sur une monnaie du Pañcala - Un titre iranien manichéen en transcription chinoise - Notes sur quelques sculptures provenant de Srideb (Siam) - Aesthetic of the Sukranitisara - Notes sur le portrait en Extrême-Orient - Mesopotamian and early Indian art: comparisons - Stèles historiées du Cambodge - Une représentation du Sutasoma-jataka sur une frise d' Aurangabad - A propos de deux sculptures conservées au Musée de Mathura - L'art pala et sena dans l'Inde extérieure. Tome II: Les dernières découvertes dAfghanistan (1930) -La descente de la Gaga à Mahabalipuram - Un traité de magie bouddhique - Parayaa cité dans Jñanaprasthana - Une dernière note sur le Nirvaa - Maitreya le consolateur - Sur quelques objets de l'époque des Han - La noria prototype du samsara et son rapport au dharmacakra - Trois termes des Mémoires de Hiuan- tsang - Les débuts du vêtement copte- Les premières soies sassanides - Le symbolisme du pilier de Sarnath - A Chinese temple and its plastic decoration of the twelfth century - La transition de l'art préangkoréen à l'art angkoréen.‎

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‎[PEUPLES ET CIVILISATION, AFGHANISTAN] - BOURGEOIS (Jean), BOURGEOIS (Danielle) -‎

‎Les seigneurs d'aryana.‎

‎Paris, Flammarion - l'aventure vécue, 1972 ; in-8, 248 pp., broché, couverture illustr.‎

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‎[revue] Objets et Mondes tome 14 [tome XIV] fascicule 3.‎

‎Objets et Mondes tome 14 [tome XIV] fascicule 3. Automne 1974.‎

‎Paris: Musée de l'Homme, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1974 in-4, nombreuses illustrations. Broché, très bon état. Sommaire: Bernard DUPAIGNE, Un artisan d'Afghanistan. Sa vie, ses problèmes, ses espoirs. - Monique GESSAIN, Des abeilles et des dieux chez les Bassari du Sénégal oriental. - Solange THIERRY, La collection Robert LINGAT. - Lionel BALOUT, Un buste de l'abbé Breuil. - Ethnomusicologie.‎

‎Objets et Mondes tome 14 [tome XIV] fascicule 3. Automne 1974. (Paris: Musée de l'Homme, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1974) [M.C.: revue, Ethnologie, Afghanistan, Sénégal, Thaïlande, préhistoire]‎

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‎[Tour du Monde]‎

‎TOUR du MONDE - N° 44 - Octobre 1963 : AFGHANISTAN et ETATS HIMALAYENS‎

‎Revue mensuelle de 72 pages, format 140 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, Impr. de Sceaux, bon état‎

‎Dossier : Afghanistan et Etats Himalayens‎

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‎A'DB OUL - KERYM .- LANGLES‎

‎VOYAGE DE L' INDE A LA MEKKE par A'bd Oul - Kerym favori de Tahmas - Couly - Khan.- Extrait et traduit de la version anglaise de ses Mémoires, avec des notes géographiques, littéraires, etc . Seconde édition, revue et augmentée.‎

‎Paris, Nepveu,1825.- XXXIV-233 pp., illustré d’une gravure en frontispice, relié demi basane époque, dos lisse orné avec titre, ex-libris, charnières fendues, frottements, rousseurs au titre.‎

‎Récit d'un voyage, accompli par un homme qui a parcouru l'Inde, la Perse et l'Arabie, pour se rendre au lieu le plus sacré de l'islam : la Mekke (La Mecque). A'bd Oul-Kerym, était un esclave affranchi qui a servi le puissant Tahmas-Kouly-Khan, le souverain de l'empire afghan au XVIIIe siècle. Ce voyageur nous fait découvrir des paysages, des cultures, des religions et des peuples variés, avec un regard curieux et respectueux. Il nous raconte aussi les dangers, les difficultés et les merveilles qu'il a rencontrés sur sa route, ainsi que les motivations profondes qui l'ont poussé à accomplir ce pèlerinage. Ce livre est un témoignage précieux sur une époque et une région du monde méconnues, mais aussi sur la foi et l'aventure humaine. P2-2C‎

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‎ABOUCHAR Jacques‎

‎Dans la cage de l'ours.‎

‎Broch?. 361 pages.‎

‎ABU L'UNIAN FAHMI Muhammad‎

‎Afganistan bain al-ams wal-yaum (Afghistane bina el-amessi wu el-liaum) [texte en arabe, text in arabic]‎

‎Misr, Dar al-Katib al-Arabi li-t-Tiba'a wa-'n-Nasr 1969 522pp., hardback (black cloth, spine in black leather with engilded title), 24cm., VG, [text entirely in arabic], OCLC: 258341391, [content: Afghanistan inbetween today and tomorrow]‎

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‎ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES‎

‎Et si on parlait de l'Afghanistan ? - L'universit?, les entreprises et la multiplication des salari?s bourgeois (1960-1975) - La synth?se chr?tienne : d?passement vers l'au-del? - Antis?mitisme universitaire et concurrence de classe (Hongrie) ... Articles dans le n? 34.‎

‎Num?ro complet.‎

‎Adamec, Ludwig W‎

‎Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan. 6 Bände.‎

‎Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972-1985. 4°. Mit rund 400 Karten im Text, einigen gefalt. Tabellen u. einer mehrf. gefalt. farb. Karte als Beilage. Zus. ca. 3.500 S., OLwd.-Bde. m. illustr. OUmschlägen.‎

‎Erste Ausgabe. - ?Das wahrscheinlich umfassendste Nachschlagewerk über Afghanistan. Der 1914 als geheime Informationsquelle vom britisch-indischen Generalstab zusammengetragene Gazetteer enthält sämtliche Informationen, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt über Afghanistan verfügbar waren. Die vorliegende Ausgabe umfasst den ehemals geheimen Gazetteer mit Korrekturen und hinzugefügten Karten sowie neues Material über die Entwicklung bis 1970? (Verlag). - Enth. die Bde.: 1) Badakhshan Province and Northeastern Afghanistan; 2) Farah and Southwestern Afghanistan; 3) Herat and Northwestern Afghanistan; 4) Mazar-i Sharif and North-Central Afghanistan; 5) Kandahar and South-Central Afghanistan; 6) Kabul and Southeast Afghanistan. - Umschläge m. stärkeren (Rand-)Läsuren, sonst gutes Exemplar.‎

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‎AFGHAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES.‎

‎National archives of Afghanistan.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English. 32 p., color an b/w ills. National archives of Afghanistan.‎

‎Afghanistan / Krieg / Politik / USA - Dodge, Toby‎

‎Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond Adelphi Text: english Afghanistan / Krieg / Politik / USA - Dodge Toby‎

‎Taylor & Francis 2011. 2011. Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond Adelphi Text: english <br/><br/>Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond Adelphi Text: english Afghanistan / Krieg / Politik / USA - Dodge Toby Taylor & Francis unknown‎

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‎Afghanistan - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John (1817 - 1876)‎

‎Cabool Kabul / Afghanistan The Punjab Pakistan and Beloochistan Balochistan with Vignettes and Illustrations of Boats on the Indus / Sultan Mahmoud's Minars and Fortress Ghuznee / Ghazni in Afghanistan / Beautiful scenery of Lahore.‎

‎1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 33.7 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown‎

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‎AFGHANISTAN‎

‎Large map including parts of British India Russian Turkestan Bokhara Persia and Baluchistan.‎

‎Dehra Dún: Office of the Trigonometrical Branch Survey of India 1901. Rare and superb Great Game map of Afghanistan Rare and very striking wall map of Afghanistan dated June 1901 compiled under the orders of the Surveyors General of India Major-General Charles Strahan 1895-99 and Colonel St. George Corbet Gore 1899-1904: an online search of institutional libraries records copies at just 3 institutional libraries world-wide British Library Wisconsin and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Included is a useful list of "Additional Authorities Consulted" among them maps of Karataghin and Darwaz 1882 by the Russian military topographer P. E. Kossiakoff Kafiristan 1884 by Surgeon-Major G. S. Robertson "Map illustrating the Havildar's and the Mulla's Routes in Wakhan Kolab and Darwaz by Captain H. Trotter RE" 1876 Henry Trotter was part of the Forsyth Mission of 1873-74 Routes in Persia 1893 by Sir Percy Sykes four Russian maps two of the Trans-Caspian "sources of the Amu Dariya" the Oxus "Tehran Askabad &c" and the Pamirs and Upper Oxus Regions 1894 by Ney Elias 1844-1897 an important figure in the Great Game. The present copy has a number of interesting contemporary annotations showing a certain familiarity with the country some in red and blue pencil underlining place names other pencillings connecting towns and the frequent use of a discreet symbol in purple ink that we have not been able to identify but may be the location of way points or sangars temporary fortified positions established by the British; alternatively they may show known or suspected positions of Afghan tribesmen. The most prominent annotation is the manuscript addition of the name "Jani Khel" and an arrow pointing to the area on the map marked as Katawaz the Pashto name for the town of Zarghun Shar but also the plain to the south of the town. It was a raid by Waziri Mahsuds on the flocks of the Jani Khel tribe that precipitated the Mahsud Blockade of 1900-02; the official report of operations notes that a garrison of sepoys was stationed at Jani Khel. "The blockade came into force on 1 December 1900. To enforce the blockade intended to prevent the Mashuds having any contact outside their tribal area a line of posts was established between Bannu highlighted here in red pencil and Dera Ismail Khan. Some eight battalions of infantry two regiments of cavalry and four sections of mountain artillery were initially employed. Some payments of the fine imposed by the British were made but outrages still continued troops and Militia were killed and rifles and mail stolen. Originally the blockade had been seen as a relatively cheap alternative to a punitive expedition but after twelve months results were meagre and recourse was had in November 1901 to a number of small mobile columns. the columns harassed the Mahsuds from all directions simultaneously destroying defences capturing men and cattle and destroying grain and crops. The tribe eventually sued for peace in January 1902. It was a sad commentary on British policy that no better method could be found to curb Mahsud intransigence" Brian Robson Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-1920 2004 pp. 159-60. Large coloured heliozincographed wall map 4 sheets 1285 x 1615 mm dissected into 50 panels and mounted on linen brass suspension rings at some time removed folding into a purplish-brown sand-grain cloth map case 263 x 172 mm paper cartouche label of Edward Stanford Long Acre. Case a little sunned only minor wear to extremities. Map in excellent condition. See C. Collin Davies The Problem of the North-West Frontier 1890-1908 Cambridge UP 1932; East India North-West Frontier: Mahsud-Waziri Operations London: HMSO 1902. hardcover‎

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‎AFGHANISTAN - SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR‎

‎Substantial dossier of government papers from the archive of Reginald Baliol Brett private secretary to the secretary of state for India including the manuscript draft of General Gordon's suppressed letter on the withdrawal from Kandahar.‎

‎London & Simla: 1878-82. Confidential India Office archive revealing British decision-making in the final phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War An exceptional archive of confidential India Office and Government of India papers this collection offers an unusually detailed view of the diplomatic and bureaucratic manoeuvring that accompanied the final stages of the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the negotiation of Britain's withdrawal. Bringing together Foreign Department memoranda from Simla Cabinet papers printed at the Foreign Office and India Office material that seldom survives outside official files it reconstructs policy formation across two administrations and two continents. Running through the papers is the early career of Reginald Baliol Brett later 2nd Viscount Esher who became private secretary to Lord Hartington in 1878. As Hartington and the new Liberal government sought to reverse Lord Lytton's "forward" policy and disengage from Afghanistan the India Office and the Government of India frequently disagreed over strategy intelligence and the limits of influence. The archive captures these tensions vividly and shows Brett learning to operate as an assertive intermediary whose probing questionnaires marginalia and attempts to synthesize rival views already marked him out as a rising - and at times unsettling - force within the department. The documentary foundation of the dossier lies in A. W. Moore's two major surveys of Afghan affairs annotated by Brett and widely regarded as the most authoritative India Office narratives of the conflict. These are complemented by a sequence of extremely restricted Simla-printed papers and a run of Cabinet memoranda from Thomas Harrison's private press together charting the shift from aggressive frontier ambition to the more pragmatic Liberal policy of withdrawal and the recognition of Abdur Rahman as Amir. High-level submissions by Hartington Ripon and Evelyn Baring illuminate the arguments over the retention of Kandahar and Pishin while the "Aide-Mémoire" on negotiations with Abdur Rahman documents the decisive recalibration of British aims. Other materials probe the immediate crises of the war: memoranda assessing Yakub Khan's responsibility for the Kabul Residency attack; correspondence among Griffin Stewart and Lyall on the deteriorating northern situation; and the substantial "Very Confidential" dossier of Russian correspondence between General von Kaufmann and Shere Ali which exposes the diplomatic pressures of the "Great Game". Operational detail appears in the viceroy's secret telegrams of early 1880 field reports from Kandahar and Kabul Wilson's military sketch of the campaign and manuscript troop returns. Among the most revealing personal items is General Charles Gordon's autograph draft of a letter to The Times opposing the retention of Kandahar heavily revised and ultimately suppressed by Brett who feared it would damage Gordon's standing. His decision and later grief at Gordon's death lend an unexpected human dimension to a collection otherwise dominated by official policy and statecraft. Only a handful of the documents can be traced in institutional collections and few survive in private hands. Gathered here in a coherent sequence with close associations they provide a rare high-resolution record of how British officials interpreted the war navigated clashing doctrines and personalities and ultimately engineered their exit from Afghanistan. A full list of the contents is available on request. Folio 339 x 215 mm comprising 37 printed and manuscript items: full listing with titles paginations and outline content given in the note. Contemporary light olive brown diagonal zigzag-grain cloth boards rebacked and cornered in brownish orange morocco in the mid-20th century red morocco label original moderate bluish green endpapers retained matching linen hinges. Esher armorial bookplate. Cloth starting to lift a little from the edges of spine; contents variably browned margins a little fragile in places with a few consequent chips and splits one title page torn across and neatly repaired with archival tape: overall very good. James Lees-Milne The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher 1986. hardcover‎

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‎AFGHANISTAN‎

‎Les tr?sors arch?ologiques de l'Afghanistan: Une mission de fouilles fran?aise. De Ghazni ? la vall?e de Bamiyan. Le grand bouddha,... Article (5 pages, 12 photos) dans L'Illustration.‎

‎Num?ro sans publicit?.‎