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19285659Oxford UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Detailed report on explorations in Central Asia Kan-Su and Eastern Iran. Carried out and described under the orders of HM Indian Government. 3 large format over sized volumes plus a portfolio of maps in a separate box. Vol 1 & 2 have 1159 pages and profuse ill and plates. These are the detailed travel volumes. Vol 3 is the plate volume with 135 plates and 59 plans. Vol 4 is the Map box with 47 maps and 4 lettered maps. The text volumes contain over 500 photographic illustrations plus other plates some in color and plans. The map box contains over 50 individual maps numbered and lettered which show great detail on the areas explored. Original rust colored cloth with gilt on spine and front covers. This is Stein's major work on the anthropology and archaeology of Central Asia. Stein was inspired by Sven Hedin but financed by the Indian government. He discovered the existence of a lost civilization along the Silk Route in CHinese Central Asia. He also described the culture of north-west India and Chinese Turkestan and into China. Stein traveled almost 11000 miles between 1913 and 1916. He went from Kashmir to Kashgar across the Taklamakan Desert to Khotan across the Pamirs and Valleys of the Upper Oxus and more! Corners bumped as usual on these extraordinary thick and heavy works and former owner's raised private library blindstamp on page after title page in text and plate volumes. Text is fine minor bumping in first few plates. Only light spine wear. Basically a handsome solid VG set in original cloth. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover
1921355490717903London 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Bernard Quaritch 1921. First UK Edition. FIRST EDITION 3 volumes comprising vol.1 text folio 400 x 315mm. xii 65pp. original printed grey wrappers leaves mainly uncut and contents loose some small chips and closed tears at edges; vol.2 plates large folio 645 x 520mm. plate volume title printed in red and black with coloured photographic illustration and 33 coloured or tinted photographic plates some with 2 or more illustrations numbered I-XXXIII preserved loose as issued some marginal chipping/small closed tears/small marginal creases housed within original brown cloth-packed portfolio printed label on upper cover cloth ties some perished; vol.3 containing supplementary plates folio 400 x 305mm. 15 coloured or tinted photographic plates numbered XXXIV-XLVIII each in very good condition clean with no tears or chips housed. within original printed grey envelope. All plates present. Notes: FIRST EDITION of a collection of plates reproducing images of ancient Buddhist paintings recovered during the 1906-1908 second central-Asian journey including paintings he rediscovered in the 'Caves of the Thousand Buddhas' near Tun-huang Dunhuang.with descriptions by Stein and an introductory essay by Laurence Binyon. Photographs available upon request. Rare. hardcover
1905GB62Folio pp. 6 v 3 56; with 13 photographic illustrations on 6 plates and 5 plans; a very few light marks; very good in printed blue paper boards neatly rebacked hinges repaired; some wear to corners and edges; pencil inscription of J. A. Boyd Glasgow to front free endpaper some marginal pencil marks; preserved in a clamshell box.<br /><br /><b>Scarce first edition of this significant report</b> from Stein's period as Inspector-General of Education and Archaeological Surveyor of the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan to which combined post he had been appointed in July 1903. No copies are recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub.<br /><br />During his 1904-5 survey Stein became the first European to visit Mahaban accompanied by Rai Lal Singh of the Survey of India who made a survey map under Stein's supervision. Stein concluded that the identification of Mahaban as the Aornos of Alexander the Great's time was invalid and discovered on Banj mountain south of Mahaban ruins which he identified as the site of the Buddha's Body-offering where according to Chinese pilgrims. the Buddha in his former life was believed to have offered his body to feed a tigress. Stein also made a survey of the remains of a mountain stronghold known as Kafirkot on the Khasor range south-east of the Kurram valley. In all Stein recovered over 200 pieces of Gandharan sculpture during his survey. Government Press
1933172235London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1933. A pioneer in a vast new field of research First edition first impression in the scarce jacket. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks details the findings of Stein's first three Central Asian expeditions and research undertaken between 1900 and 1916. This is an especially fresh copy of a work produced in the handsome style common to Stein's monographs. The work originated as a series of lectures given at Harvard University in December 1929. "The First Expedition had proved Stein to be as brilliantly effective a fieldworker as the Rajatarangini showed him to be a scholarly Orientalist - a pioneer in a vast new field of research; the Second extending his investigations to Tun-Huang and the Aksai Chin made him a hero and brought him knighthood; the Third extending his field of operations still further - into Mongolia on the east and Iran on the west - gave substance to his role as 'Archaeological Explorer'" Mirsky p. 461. Octavo. Coloured frontispiece with captioned tissueguard 15 similar plates 78 half-tone photographic plates 8 extensive folding panoramas folding colour map. Two pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original reddish-brown cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover with embossed gilt roundel after Stein's personal emblem top edge gilt others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Two recent Japanese bookseller's tickets on front pastedown. Cloth a little rubbed but still bright text and illustrations fresh: jacket price-clipped and lightly soiled a few chips and closed tears: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Howgego IV S65; Yakushi S338. Jeannette Mirsky Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer 1998. hardcover
19461490Bucaresti: Colectia Orizont 1946. First edition. Limited numbered 1/290. Stamp on the first leaf Servicu de presa. In publisher’s typographical wrappers printed in red and black. Paper yellowed due to aging. Wrappers artistically restored. Overall in fine condition. Illustrated with six full-page linocuts. Illustrated with six full-page linocuts. First edition. Limited numbered 1/290. Stamp on the first leaf Servicu de presa. In publisher’s typographical wrappers printed in red and black. Six striking linocuts by the Romanian expressionist artist a survivor of the Holocaust Aurel Marculescu 1900–1947. Each image is titled on the opposite page in Romanian: Ghetto Talmudist Singer of Sadness Menachem Mendel After Preyer and Sukkot. The preface was written by Scarlat Callimachi 1896–1975 the leftist futurist poet. Colectia Orizont unknown
19131244Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar tudományos Akadémia 1913. First edition. Inscribed by Stein. With the photographic portrait of Duka on frontispiece. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Spine damaged cover chipped. Paper is wavy at lower edge. Overall in very good condition. First edition. Inscribed by Stein. With the photographic portrait of Duka on frontispiece. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 1 photographic frontispiece 33 1 p. <p><br /> Inscribed first edition of Stein’s commemorate speech for Theodor Duka.<br /> <p><p><br /> Theodor or Tivadar Duka 1925–1908 was a Hungarian-born English philologist and physician lived in India and served as Surgeon Colonel of the Indian Army known as the biographer of Sándor Csoma de KÅ‘rös Alexander Csoma de Körös the author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book.<br /> <p><p><br /> The English translation of the booklet was privately published in 1914 in Oxford under the title “In memoriam Theodore Duka".<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>. Kiadja a Magyar tudományos Akadémia unknown
19261237Dresden: S.n. 1926. First separate edition. Presentation copy. Offprint edition. Unbound as published. Artistically restored. In fine condition. First separate edition. Presentation copy. Offprint edition. Unbound as published. 61–71 1 p. <p><br /> Inscribed copy of Stein’s paper on Alexander the Great’s campaign on the Indian North-West frontier. The rewritten English version was published a year later in the “The Geographical Journalâ€.<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
192072460Oxford: Clarendon Press 1920. First edition 3 volumes in 1 folio pp. 6 143 1; viii 155-266 vi 2 267-379 3; text in English with Prakrit text transliterated and with English supporting text; 13 gravure plates of facsimiles plus a final plate of Kharosthi letters and numerals; contemporary quarter black pebble-grain morocco likely a German binding smooth gilt-paneled spine laid out in 5 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; some scuffing and wear small cracks starting at the top and bottom of the upper joint otherwise a very good sound and clean copy. With a dozen or so typed and manuscript erudite notes in German laid in. Volume I: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya site 1901; volume II: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya Endere and Lou-lan sites 1906-7; and volume III: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya and Lou-lan sites 1913-14. Also with a complete index verborum. Erdelyi 2.08. Clarendon Press unknown
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
193321194London: Macmillan 1933. First edition. With a color frontispiece 147 illustrations and a folding color map at the rear. Additionally several fold-out panoramas. 8vo original sienna cloth gilt lettered and emblematically decorated t.e.g. xxiv 342 2 ads. A handsome clean and bright copy very well preserved tight and strong minimal aging one corner a bit bumped. VERY SCARCE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. This book was based on a series of lectures Stein gave at the Lowell Institute in Boston at the request of the president of Harvard University and represents a succinct account of the explorations antiquarian and geographical which he undertook throughout his life in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of Central Asia. While many of Stein’s career travels took him further south he states that the memories of his years in the areas in “the deserts and mountains of innermost Asia are still as fresh and cherished as before.†Within the pages of this book can be found the accounts of sojourns across the Hindukush to the Pamirs and K’un-Lun ventures into the cave-shrines of the Thousand Buddhas and explorations in the Nan-Shan Ranges all told in Stein’s knowledgeable and eloquent style. A cornerstone of Asian travel literature and scarce in such well preserved condition. Macmillan hardcover
198770907Romania Editura Meridiane. As New. 1987. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text in Rumanian. 4to .Colour and B&W plates. -- with a bonus offer-- . Romania Editura Meridiane hardcover
19391477Paris: Auguste Picard 1939. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front cover in black ink. Text in French. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Cover moderately tanned towards the extremities. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper. Lower right corner dog-eared throughout. Overall in very good condition. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front cover in black ink. Text in French. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 2 263–268 p. <p><br /> Inscribed copy of Stein’s report about his aerial archaeological survey of ancient Roman limes in Transjordan and Iraq which he carried out in 1938. Transcript of his lecture at the 1939 annual meeting of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.<br /> <p><br /> <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>. Auguste Picard 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
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
193432820559<p>First separate edition. This is Stein's lecture delivered on the occasion of being awarded the Society's Huxley Medal.</p><br /><p>Original wrappers. 4to. pp. 179-202 7 leaves of plates 2 folding maps. Old owner's inscription along spine giving the work's author and title edge fading else very good.</p> Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
193367469London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1933. First edition 8vo pp. xxiv 342 2 ads; color frontispiece 147 illustrations on rectos and versos of 78 plates 16 in color including 8 folding panoramas and a large folding map; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g.; ex-James J. Hill Library with traces of call numbers on spine perforated stamp in the bottom margin of the title page and a small rubberstamp on the last page of text and on the verso of the large folding map; all else near fine clean and sound. "Comprehensive summary of the results of the author's three Central Asian expeditions and of his researches carried out during the years 1900-16" Yakushi. Yakushi S723a. Macmillan and Co., Limited 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
190416471London: Hurst and Blackett 1904. Early printing. With a large folding map and 135 illustrations. 8vo original sienna polished cloth gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in black and yellow on the spine and decorated and lettered in black and yellow on the upper cover. xv 503. A fresh and desirable copy of this scarce and important work pages 13-28 with either a chip or neat repair along the bottom margin not effecting the text in any way head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and with a small chip. VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK BY STEIN. In 1900-1901 Stein excavated several ruined sites in the Taklamakan Desert around Khotan publishing his experiences in SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN. This would be the first of two expeditions which would lead to his being awarded the Founder's Gold Medal by the Royal Geographic Society.<br> The rare account of Stein’s first great Central Asian expedition. Stein followed in the footsteps of Sven Hedin who in 1893 had found unexplored ruins at the oasis of Khotan along the southern edge of the great Taklamakan desert in Chinese Turkestan. Hedin was unable to undertake any systematic examination of the sitebut Stein convinced the Indian Government under Lord Curzon to supply and fund his archaeological and geographical expedition in 1900-01.<br> Stein’s excavations became the first scientific survey of the spread of Buddhism out of India and into greater Asia. Hurst and Blackett 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
1940836P15London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1940. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 7". Not Stated. The first edition of Aurel Stein's brilliant study on Western Iran a first hand account of his extensive travels. The first edition.Aurel Stein's narrative of his 1935-36 travels through Western Iran following three years during which he was exploring Southern Iran. 'Old Routes of Western Iran' beautifully describes Iran in detail provided by an experienced traveller.Stein was an archaeologist who is known for his discoveries in Central Asia particularly manuscripts. Looking at Westernmost Fars Kohgalu Tracts the Bakhtiari Hills Saimareh River and more.Illustrated with two folding maps including one map to the pocket to the rear sixty eight plates and in-text maps and and plans.Collated complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Head of the title page has been excited affecting half of the first line of the title. Very Good Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
19332159Macmillan 1933. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece 16 fine coloured plates on 15 all captioned guards present 123 monochrome plates on 78 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and large folding coloured map some very light occasional marginal spotting as often; original sienna cloth gilt back upper cover blocked in gilt gilt top uncut one or two leaves unopened joints a trifle rubbed else a very good bright crisp copy. VERY SCARCE. Macmillan, 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
19331373740London: Macmillan and Co 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxiv 342 2 pages with 147 illustrations eight of which are folding. In Very Good condition. Bound in original red cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt embossed ornament to front board. Minor shelf wear. Some scratching and rubbing to boards. Bumping to spine and corners. Top edge of textblock gilt. Some foxing to bottom and fore edge. Interior pages clean. PH consignment. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1373740. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Macmillan and Co hardcover
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
1904651<p>A very nice copy of the "Cheaper edition" published a year after the first edition. Folding map present. Bright pictorial cloth. Scarce.</p> Hurst and Blackett hardcover
