BURNES (Alexander). Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus à Lah - Lot 109

BURNES (Alexander). Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus à Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et à Boukhara ; et retour par la Perse pendant les années 1831, 1832, et 1833 Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835, 4 parts (3 text volumes and an atlas) in 3 vols. in-8, contemporary blond half-basane, smooth spine decorated with black and gold fillets, brown title-pieces (cover gap at the head of one spine, another detached at the head, small damage to title-pieces, one spinebone split, ; sporadic freckling, more pronounced on the first 2 plates). First edition in French of this account by the British soldier and diplomat Alexander Burnes, who spent 3 years in Central Asia. The translation is by Jean-Baptiste Eyriès, founding member of the Société de Géographie de Paris in 1821. The 12-plate atlas is bound at the end of volume 3, offering 11 lithographed illustrations of costumes, medals and engraved stones, as well as views of the region. The second plate shows the Bamian Buddha statues destroyed in 2001. The last plate is a large folding map after J. Arrowsmith by Ambroise Tardieu, to accompany Burnes' travels, with his route traced.