8vo. viii, 144pp. With two lithographed folding maps. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, receipt of Luzac & Co. Foreign and Oriental Booksellers & Publishers pasted to REP.

The first in a series of twenty-five provincial gazetteers issued between 1908 and 1909 by the British government in India; a directory to the states of Afghanistan and Nepal documenting their respective history, topography, climate, and military capability.