Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

56 EYRE, Vincent. Retraite et destruction de l'armée l'Afghanistan en janvier
1842, journal du lieutenant Vt. Eyre .. suivi de notes-familières écrites pendant sa
captivité chez les Afghans. Traduit de l'Anglais sur la 3me édition, par Paul Jessé.
Paris, J. Corréard, 1844.
Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With folding plan. VII,328 pp.
€ 150,00
'Personal narrative of British operations against Kabul, the revolt of the Afghans, and
their destruction of the retreating British forces. Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered,
and the troops under Brigadier Shelton were defeated at Beymarro' (Yakushi E67). -
(Some lvs browned).
57 FERGUSON, Robert. Nineveh and its ruins: or, the history of the great city.
London, T.J. Allman, (c. 1860).
4to. Original pictorial cloth gilt (sl. discoloured), a.e.g. With chromolithographed
frontispiece and title-page, and numerous woodengravings. VI,(2),102 pp. € 150,00
'Nineveh, which was the capital of Assyria, was situated on the eastern bank of the
river Tigris, about 280 miles north of Babylon, which was the metropolis of the
Chaldean empire, and which it sought to rival in spendour and renown'.
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