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196412837New York: Pantheon Books 1964. First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xxii 290. Frontis. map of Chinese Turkestan. Illustrated with a section of b&w photo reproductions. Introduction by editor Mirsky. Black publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt. Crisp and bright. In the color illustrated dust jacket unclipped with print date 10/64: minimal sunning to the spine. Re-issue of the 1933 first edition. Dust jacket title continues: "The archeological discovery of the "silk route" linking the Roman Empire with Cathay."<p>Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival protector. Pantheon Books hardcover
1964006953New York: Pantheon Books 1964 F/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper edges a little rubbed with trifling tears in corners; pp. xxii 292 last blank with 8 illustrations & a map. A near fine copy. First Thus. Hard Cover. F/VG. Pantheon Books hardcover
1933008560London: MacMillan & Co 1933 8vo. original brown cloth gilt teg others uncut occ. spots in text else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper; pp. xxiv 342 2 original pub. advts last colophon with colour frontispiece147 illustrations inc. panoramas & a colour folding map. Heavy item 1.8 kg additional postage may be required for international delivery. An excellent copy about fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket. MacMillan & Co hardcover
1933NF3948ON ANCIENT CENTRAL-ASIAN TRACKS BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THREE EXPEDITIONS IN INNERMOST ASIA AND NORTH-WESTERN CHINA Macmillan 1933 first edition t.p.e.'s gold gilt light wear to fore edge corner tips a bit more so to the spine extremities which reveal several short closed tears else a near vg copy with near fine contents replete with all photos illustrations color plates and fold-outs called for. Macmillan unknown
1933002702London: Macmillan & Co Limited 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. xxiv 336 1 folding map at the back 2 pp book adverts. Publisher's brown cloth gilt with embossed gilt decoration to front cover top edge gilt coloured frontispiece title vignette 147 illustrations of places people landscapes buildings etc. Slight toning of eps owner inscription of Oxford scholar D.Penny on ffep corners bumped a little rubbing of top and tail of spine else very good. Many coloured plates with tissue guards illustrating the paintings from the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas at Tun Huang. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾ <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Co Limited hardcover
1912346470London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1912. First edition. 3 folding colored maps 8 colored plates each with a printed tissue guard 339 photographic illustrations on 212 plates 6 folding panoramas. xxxviii 546 2; xxii 518 2 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's russet cloth upper cover with embossed design in gilt minor darkening to spines and very light wear. Custom slipcase. Provenance: Edward W. Bodman bookplate. First edition. 3 folding colored maps 8 colored plates each with a printed tissue guard 339 photographic illustrations on 212 plates 6 folding panoramas. xxxviii 546 2; xxii 518 2 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The classic account of Stein's 1906-08 second expedition to Chinese Central Asia incuding his discovery of the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas" near Dunhuang. Ghani p.694; Yakushi 1994 S716 MacMillan and Co., Limited unknown
1904103018London: Fisher Unwin 1904. "Cheaper Edition" one year after the first and comprising first edition sheets with a cancel title. "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 sic" Yakushi Octavo. Photogravure frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text folding coloured map at the rear. Original ochre cloth title gilt to the spine and to the front board in yellow with pictorial design in black and yellow. A little rubbed and slightly spotted free endpapers lightly browned light foxing to the fore-edge and to first few leaves but overall very good. Howgego IV S65; Yakushi S328a. hardcover
19011246S.n.: N.p. 1901. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher’s yellow wrappers. Traces of folding. Cover somewhat dusted. Title and date in pencil on cover. Pages wavy at lower edge. Otherwise in very good condition. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher’s yellow wrappers. 295–300 2 p. <p><br /> Stein’s early paper on the archeological excavations and findings in Khotan during his first major expedition to Central-Asia in 1900–1901.<br /> <p><p><br /> Originally published in Journal of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 33 Issue 2 April 1901.<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>. [N.p.] unknown
1929030709London: Macmillan and Co Ltd 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ruddy cloth gilt front corners and head bumped white soiling on the rear. Foxed interior. Gilt top edge. Contains 50 plates 2 folding panoramic views and 2 folding colour maps. Review copy with publisher's notice laid in. Stein traced Alexander the Great's march of conquest towards India which opened up that area to classical Western culture. Macmillan and Co Ltd Hardcover
1933H7RBM33W6TKBLondon 1933. Large 8vo. MacMillan and co. Original publisher's terracotta cloth title in gold on spine and Stein's gold-tooled and blind-stamped emblem of Athena on the front board. With a coloured frontispiece a coloured map and 147 photographic illustrations of among others documents art and views some folding. xxiv 342 2 pp. First edition of the account of the three very important explorations by the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Steins 1862-1943 and of his researches carried out in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia in 1900-1901 1906-1908 and 1913-1914. Stein travelled through Pamirs Khotan and Niya to Dunhuang Suchou Turfan and Kashgar to Samaskand and the northern and southern silk roads. In the present work he describes his archeological and topographical discoveries by showing artefacts like documents art objects and describing buildings and landscapes all illustrated with the photographic illustrations showing the eastern and western influences. Highly interesting summary of this important archeological expedition to Chinese Turkistan and its adjacent areas.With the bookplate of Louise Maxwell Scott on the front paste-down and another owner's inscription dated March 1991 and the bookplate of A. Constable Maxwell on the first free endpaper. Untrimmed in very good condition. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
191267321London: Macmillan & Co 1912. First edition 2 volumes thick 8vo portrait of the author 8 color plates 6 folding panoramas 3 large folding maps and 333 illus. on 219 plates; original terra cotta cloth covers decorated in gilt spines lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed one small crack at the top of the spine of volume I; all else very good and sound. The large folding map at the back of volume II is loose but present and is laid down and with old repairs at the folds and the final leaf of ads has a small hole where the rebacking of the maps adhered. Macmillan & Co unknown
199885921Guangxi Guilin Shi: Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she 1998. Di 1 ban. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5 volumes 4 text and one unbound map portfolio. Original cloth. 43cm. Volume 5 the map portfolio contains 96 unbound maps with overlays -- 94 of the maps are numbered 1-94; the other two are unnumbered. This tied portfolio is housed in a cloth slipcase matching the text volumes in color and approximate size. The whole set is contained in a tied folding portfolio. Shipping weight for this folio-sized set is probably about 55 lbs 25 kilos. Chinese text. This massive set is the Chinese translation of Stein's massive and most sought-after work "Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China." which was published in 1921. Stein is often regarded in China as little more than an opportunistic Western looter of China's ancient manuscripts and archeological treasures so it is probably not surprising that it took 77 years for a Chinese translation to be published. Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she hardcover
1961217703Delhi.: Motilal Banarsidass. 1961. Two volumes. Volume I: Folding genealogical table xxxi 402pp. Volume II: 2 folding colour maps in pocket at rear 1 missing iv 555pp 24 x 17cm. Endpapers marked and browned some light general wear but good clean and firm copies. Indian reprint of Stein's great work of scholarship originally published in 1900. . Motilal Banarsidass. unknown
1975215624New York.: Hacker Art Books. 1975. Two volumes bound in one. Folding colour map at rear black and white and some colour photographic plates. Volume 1: xxiv 621pp Volume 2: vii cxix plates appendices indices large thick quarto 34 x 26cm. Upper edge trifle soiled endpapers slightly mottled otherwise very good indeed in attractive pictorial red cloth boards with contrasting cloth spine. A fascinating account of Aurel Stein’s discoveries at the early Buddhist monastic cities of Rawak and Dandan-Uilik and the important archaeological sites of Niya and Endere was first published in 1907 this reprint was authorised by the Clarendon Press. . Hacker Art Books hardcover
19091271Budapest: S.n. 1909. First English separate edition. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers restored. Pages with traces of creasing. Otherwise in very good condition. First English separate edition. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 28 p. <p><br /> First English separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908.<br /> <p><p><br /> The text is the translation of the paper Stein read at the Hungarian Geographical Society on April 23 and 26 1909 as it is stated on the first page. Although it reads on the cover in German that this is a separate offprint it is misleading because in “Földrajzi Közlemények†the paper was published in Hungarian supposedly the cover title of the Hungarian edition was – by mistake – also translated and for some reason not into English but German. <br /> <p><p><br /> The first English journal edition with slightly different text is the one in Geographical Journal for July and September 1909 which is the text of Stein’s lecture to the Royal Geographical Society meeting of 8 March 1909.<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>. [S.n.] unknown
1989146703Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1989. reprint. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 555pp. maps appends. index With three large folding maps in rear pocket. Usual Indian quality but a quite nice copy Motilal Banarsidass hardcover
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
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
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
1987I5414New York: White Lotus Press 1987. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.54. Ruins of Desert Cathay Vol. I-II White Lotus Press paperback
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
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
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
