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86117103London 1933 MacMillan. Brown cloth very good 342p. index 9 panoramic views 20 color plates123 b.w. photos fold-out map very good 3 cm. tear front top hinge mended spine head & tail bit worn else clean & solid. FIRST EDITION A succinct account of his explorations antiquarian and geo- graphical account in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia. Strenuous and hard travel were his daily path which led the author to places no white man traversed. His archaeological work into the Pamirs K'un-lun sand- buried sites Niya Miran Lou-lan cave shrines of the Thousand Buddhas at Dunhuang &c. These early important finds set off a sensation throughout the scholarly world and were the reason for subsequent research expeditions. A valuable important primary source. He was the last of the great geographers of uncharted areas. Stein 1862 to 1943. The First Edition was issued in brown cloth with gold stamping on the spine and covers with top edges in gilt 17 x 24 cm. . unknown
1968406395New York : Benjamin Blom 1968. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Three volumes complete. The first two are text only with a frontispiece 546 and 517 pages. The third volume is all b&w plates including fold-out maps and panoramas in rear. White textured cloth covers all clean and tight. Record # 406395 Benjamin Blom hardcover
DADAX1108077528Cambridge University Press 2014-10-02. Reissue. paperback. New. 5.75x1.75x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press paperback
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1912002254London England: Macmillian Company 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Covers and spines with light wear; top edges gilt; both volumes with book plates from two previous owners on paste down end papers and first free end papers with library stamp of Yamanaka & Co New York March 24 1926; Vol. 1 illustrated with 154 high quality black and white photographs color frontispiece and 5 color plates and at rear i large fold out map; Vol.2 with 179 high quality black and white photographs plus frontispiece of author's portrait 9 color plates and at rear 2 large fold out maps; small 4to; Vol. 1 with 546 pages and Vol. 2 with 492 pages <br/> <br/> Macmillian Company hardcover
1108077528.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
196834522New York: Greenwood Press Publishers 1968. Reprint. Cloth Covered Boards. Good . Brown cloth covered boards corners straight. Black titles onlaid to spine. Book body clean illustrated pull-out maps. Greenwood Press, Publishers unknown
1108077544.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1987I5414New York: White Lotus Press 1987. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.54. Ruins of Desert Cathay Vol. I-II White Lotus Press paperback
85137606New York 1968 Greenwood. Brown cloth very good 2 vol. set 546517p. 3 fold out maps 332 photos index many b w photos 6 fold-out panorama photos reprint of London 1912 clean bright copy black spine labels. SCARCE . . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE: A FIRST STUDY . . The most fascinating of Stein's popular publications including chapters on his negotiations for the treasures i the walled-up library at Dunhuang. His personal record of archeological & geographical explorations carried out in the remote parts of Asia. . Stein traveled on foot over 10000 miles from the valley of the Indo-Afghan border across the snowy ranges of the Hindu Kush up the cradle of the River Oxus on the roof of the world & down to the Tarim River basin to the dreaded Taklamakan desert. A keen archaeological primary resource plus the first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddha's. A major resource for early Buddhist studies and Central Asian exploration the Silk Road and that whole area. By and large the most impressive resource on this hitherto unexplored area. The Holy Grail of early Buddhist images and Buddhism. . THE FIRST EDITION WAS LONDON 1912 IN 2 VOLUMES. Bound in original brown cloth with gold-stamping and top edges gilt 17 x 24 cm. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCES: . Yakushi S331 Stein 1862-1943 . unknown
85137601London 1912 Macmillan. Brown cloth teg. very good 2 vol. set 546517p. index 3 fold-out maps line drawings332 bw photos 9 color lithos 6 fold-out panoramas 17 x 24 cm. a bit of minor damp stain to end paperspine 1 corner bumped. . . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE: A FIRST STUDY . . The most fascinating of Stein's popular publications including chapters on his negotiations for the treasures i the walled-up library at Dunhuang. His personal record of archeological & geographical explorations carried out in the remote parts of Asia. . Stein traveled on foot over 10000 miles from the valley of the Indo-Afghan border across the snowy ranges of the Hindu Kush up the cradle of the River Oxus on the roof of the world & down to the Tarim River basin to the dreaded Taklamakan desert. A keen archaeological primary resource plus the first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddha's. A major resource for early Buddhist studies and Central Asian exploration the Silk Road and that whole area. By and large the most impressive resource on this hitherto unexplored area. The Holy Grail of early Buddhist images and Buddhism. . THE FIRST EDITION WAS LONDON 1912 IN 2 VOLUMES. Bound in original brown cloth with gold-stamping and top edges gilt 17 x 24 cm. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCES: . Yakushi S331 Stein 1862-1943 . unknown
190368185London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903. First edition 8vo pp. xliii 1 524; folding map printed in color 135 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; this copy from the British Embassy in Peking Beijing with rubberstamps on endpapers and title page marked withdrawn and slight evidence of a sticker removal at the base of the spine but no other external markings; front hinge starting; a good sound and clean copy. "Stein was born in Budapest in 1862 and died at Kabul in 1943. This is a general narrative of his first exploration to Central Asia of 1900-1901. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan and explored archaeologically the sand-buried ruins of Khotan and its neighbourings" Yakushi . "Stein's great achievement during this and two subsequent expeditions . . . was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia . . . Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" ODNB. Yakushi S713; Erdelyi 1.041. T. Fisher Unwin unknown
1108069738.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1922182353London: Royal Geographical Society 1922. An offprint of this article on Tang China's own Central Asian "great game" in which Stein explores "the remarkable exploit which brought a Chinese army right across the high inhospitable plateaus of the Pamirs to the uppermost Oxus valley and thence across the ice-covered Darkot down to the valleys of Yasin and Gilgit draining into the Indus" p. 113. Octavo pp. 21 numbered 112-132. With 2 sketch maps. Original blue wrappers sewn as issued front cover lettered in black. Covers light foxed contents evenly toned: near-fine. unknown
18971236Budapest: Franklin-Társulat nyomdája 1897. First separate edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. Artistically restored. In very good condition. First separate edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. 27 1 p. <p><br /> Stein’s inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in August 1897 inscribed to his cousin in the Upper Bavarian spa town Bad Reichenhall. <br /> <p><p><br /> Stein was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1895 while he was working at the Punjab University in Lahore thus he held his inaugural lecture only two years later on his visit to Europe. It has been published subsequently in “Budapesti Szemle†and also as an offprint. The English translation only appeared in 1905 in the “Indian Antiquary†Bombay Bombay Education Society's Press. <br /> <p><p><br /> Sir Marc Aurél Stein 1862–1943 was a Hungarian born British archaeologist mainly concerned with exploring ancient Central Asia. Member of “The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire†as Knight Commander KCIE and Fellow of British Academy. He made four major expeditions to Central Asia in 1900 1906–1908 1913–1916 and 1930. His greatest discovery was made at Mogao Caves also known as “Caves of the Thousand Buddhas†near Dunhuang in 1907. The Stein collection mostly manuscripts and other relics has been placed in the British Library the British Museum and partly to the Srinagar Museum and the National Museum in New Delhi.<br /> <p>. Franklin-Társulat nyomdája unknown
19042154Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1904. First. Orig Printed Wraps. VG. pp 747-774 with plates 1-7 from the Smithsonian Report for 1903. Map showing a portion of Chinese Turkestan taken from Stein's original. Very scarce Stein offprint/ephemera. VG in original printed Smithsonian wrappers. Smithsonian Institution unknown
192768246London: Royal Geographic Society November and December 1927. Extracts from two RGS's Journals 8vo pp. 417-440; 515-540 i.e. 50 pages; 10 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 3 plates map in the text and a folding map printed in color at the back; neatly bound in black cloth-backed blue paper wrappers printed paper label on spine; fine. Royal Geographic Society, November and December unknown
193038354Calcutta: Govt of India Central Publication Branch. Fair with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Plain brown cloth hardcover. 3 iii 115 pages followed by 8 plates and 2 folding maps. The page edges have creases tears repairs and some stains moreso in the first third of the book. The folding maps each have a tear. The cloth is mildly soiled and worn. Laid in is a typewritten copy of a letter dated May 16 1928 from Stein to the Hon'able Sir Norman Bolton Chief Commissioner North-West Frontier province. ; quarto . Govt of India Central Publication Branch hardcover
1982Alibris.0009422New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. 1982. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn with tears. ii ii 211 p. 65 p. of plates: ill. maps; 29 cm. Includes: Illustrations Maps Plates. . Reprint. Originally published: 1931. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cosmo Publications hardcover
1975GM2310<p>2 Vols. pub in 1. Reprint Ed. Thick Folio. xxiv 621pp vii. 119 plates 1 folding map. Red cloth small stain on bottom edge of text otherwise Very Good condition.</p><p>NOTE: This is a very heavy book. Additional shipping/insurance will be required. Shipping ONLY in the USA.</p> Hacker Art Books hardcover
