Narrative of Services in Beloochistan & Affghanistan,

First Edition thus. "Colonel Stacey's [sic.] recollections account for two sets of events on the Afghan Border between 1840 and 1842. In the first episode he served as an interpreter during the negotiations leading to a treaty with the Khan of Kalat. This agreement subsequently safeguarded British lines of communication supporting General Nott's invasion of Afghanistan in May 1842." Followed by the March to Kandahar and on to Kabul and back to India. His “subsequent services which are slightly adverted to” were against the Mahrattas at Maharajpore in 1843 and Sobraon in the Sikh War in 1846. Originally published in a slightly different form, in a highly limited edition, at Serampore in 1844.

8vo. Original green diapered, embossed cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine laid down, and more recent leather label, new endpapers. Folding lithographed map frontispiece. Marginal browning throughout, title page and the first few leaves somewhat brittle and marginally chipped, frontispiece with archival tape repair at the margin, cloth slightly rubbed, remains a very good copy.