This grove of magnificent cheenars leads to the burial-place of the Emperor Baber, the space between, being some hundred yards, is divided into numerous terraces about twenty feet wide for the purpose of forming a line of diminutive artificial cascades. The water is supplied from the mountains, and which, after numerous falls from one terrace to another is received into a square reservoir. There is a wide path on each side of these terraces, and on every Friday- the Mahommedan Sabbath- the walks of this favourite grove are filled “from morn till dewy” with crowds of people in their holiday attire- the women always veiled in their boorkas, and each enjoying with apparent delight the social scene around. Sketches in Afghanistan, Henry Graves & Co. and W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1842. Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, 25 tinted plates by Louis and Charles Haghe. This is one of the earliest collections of views of Afghanistan. James Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi’s Shah Nameh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was on of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840’s and 1850’s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work.