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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
193739549London: Macmillan & Co 1937. 4to 31.3 cm 12.25". xix 1 267 1 pp.; 1 fold. map. 63 plts. 6 col. many multi-image illus. lacking 2 maps. <br><br>First edition: A thorough account of Stein's first two archeological journeys carried out in 193133. Born in Budapest Marc Aurel Stein 18621943 studied Sanskrit and Old Persian archeology and mapmaking before beginning a career in teaching in India; he eventually became a British citizen and embarked on a series of expeditions during which he obtained among other things sculptures textiles the earliest known records of daily Indian life ca. 105 a.d. and most famously and controversially a treasure trove of manuscripts and paintings from the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas.<br>Â Â Â Â The present meticulously detailed travelogue is illustrated with numerous photographic plates including 34 at the back of the volume depicting large numbers of samples of ceramics and pottery some of which are in color in-text maps and one oversized folding map.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Publisher's red cloth spine with gilt-stamped title front cover with gilt-stamped title and gilt embossed medallion of Athena; without dust jacket spine and edges sunned spine to a light beige covers showing minor smudges. Dedication page with rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin with pencilled note "withdrawn." This copy without the pocket and two folding maps expected therein with no sign or trace of their removal at the back of the volume but curiously with many blank leaves after the last plate as if to balance the non-present maps and with the portion of the "list of plans" relevant to the absent maps obscured by an affixed rectangle of matching paper. => A solid internally clean eminently enjoyable copy of these important observations priced to reflect its "omissions. Macmillan & Co hardcover books
193337601London: Macmillan & Co. 1933. 8vo 24 cm; 9.5". xxiv 342 pp. <br><br>First edition. Based on lectures given at the Lowell Institute this book reflects on the explorations made by Marc Aurel Stein in four expeditions to Central Asia that took him into Eastern Turkestan westernmost China and across the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. His greatest triumph involved => discovery of the world's oldest printed text Diamond Sutra dating to A.D. 868 plus 40000 other scrolls. He received a knighthood for his efforts which extended over 30 years.<br>Â Â Â Â Stein's account is accompanied by many illustrations in both black and white and color. These include a color frontispiece several fold-out panoramas and a folding color map at rear with all color illustrations having intact tissue guards.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Rust-brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt medallion to front board in an edgeworn lightly soiled dust jacket with significant portions torn away at spine smaller losses at corners/edges and price-clip and two small stains to rear panel. Binding clean with extremities bumped. Purple monogram ownership stamp to front free endpaper p. 83 and a leaf in the index; text otherwise clean with upper corners lightly creased across and a few leaves unopened. => Good in a good dust jacket that appears in most instances to be lacking entirely. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
191241007London: Macmillan & Co. 1912. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.52". 2 vols. I: Col. frontis. xxxviii 546 pp.; 3 fold. plts. 105 2 col. plts. II: Frontis. xxi 1 517 3 2 adv. pp.; 4 fold. plts. 2 fold. maps 120 5 col. plts. <br><br>First edition: "With numerous illustrations colour plates panoramas and maps from original surveys." Marc Aurel Stein conducted four expeditions to Central Asia that took him into Eastern Turkestan westernmost China and across the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. His greatest triumph involved => discovery of the world's oldest printed text the Diamond Sutra dating to A.D. 868 plus 40000 other scrolls. He received a knighthood for his efforts which extended over 30 years. The present account was based on his 190608 archaeological and geographical exploration carried out "under the orders of the Government of India" p. vii; the volumes are => illustrated with over 200 plates including color-printed reproductions of artwork folding maps and photographic images of Stein's travels.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Publisher's dark red cloth front covers each with gilt-stamped classical vignette; vol. I with edges and extremities rubbed corners bumped minor mottling and spots of discoloration; vol. II similar with area of damage to upper outer fore-edge. Top edges gilt. Vol. I front hinge inside starting from foot and sewing loosening; inner margins of frontispiece and printed guard leaf reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape; one leaf with outer margin tattered and resulting short tear not touching text. Vol. II with back hinge inside cracked. Some text pages in both volumes showing pressure lines imprinted from plates. A respectable set of these hefty books somewhat weakened by their own size and by use "priced accordingly"; together a record of a significant expedition that offers => both visual and textual interest. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
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. <br/><br/> Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she hardcover books
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
193129308Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Half leather/cloth titled in gilt; hubbed spine. Edges are rubbed cloth lightly stained corners bumped. Text block edge foxed. Very occasional foxing to leaves. Foldout map 64 photos 33 plates 13 plans. Original wrappers bound in. One of 750 copies. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India no. 43. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Government of India Central Publication Branch hardcover
192368822Oxford: privately printed at the Clarendon Press 1923. First edition 8vo pp. 19 1; original brown printed wrappers; some minor creasing slight separation at the top of the spine; all else very good. Inscribed at the top of the from wrapper: "With kindest regards of / A. Stein." Pandit Govind Kaul a respected scholar of Persian and Sanskrit was born in Srinagar and came into contact with Aurel Stein through George Buhler "that doyen of European Indologists . It was Buhler's commendatory reference that attracted Stein's attention towards G.K. and he solicited his assistance in translating Kalhan's Rajatarangini - a job that G.K. along with Pandit Sahaz Bhatt did with utmost competence from 1888 to 1896 and to Stein's great satisfaction. "G.K. went into another collaboration with Stein and fellow scholar Sahaz Bhatt when they classified and catalogued more than six thousand Sanskrit manuscripts for Maharaja Ranbir Singh's library at Raghunath Temple Jammu. Yet another contribution G.K. made was to compile Kashmiri folk tales with Stein which the latter formally edited with George Grierson and published in 1917 as " Hatim's Tales." The tales supposedly told by one Hatim Tilawony were interpreted by Govind Kaul who also rendered assistance to Grierson in the compilation of his Kashmiri dictionary but did not live to see the work completed. Grierson went on to record later that Govind Kaul's assistance to him was "one of the many debts he ever owed to Stein. "On Govind Kaul's death in June 1899 a shocked Stein lamented that Govind Kaul ''like another Kalhana departed as my best Indian friend beyond all hope of reunion in this Janma'. Paying fulsome tributes to him Stein wrote: 'Whenever Govind Kaul was by my side whether in the dusty exile of Lahore or alpine coolness of Mohand Marg in Kashmir I was in continuity with the past as the historical student of India. His personality embodied all that change of ages indicated and showed as the mind and psyche of India'." Nine in OCLC: only Harvard LC and Wisconsin in the US. See Unmesh The Monthly Newsletter of the Kashmir Institute volume I no. 2 October 1997. privately printed at the Clarendon Press unknown
1919182354London: Royal Geographical Society 1919. Scarce offprint inscribed by the author on the title page "With best regards of A. Stein." "The results of this fresh inquiry limited as its scope is bring out once again the remarkable care of the great traveller's record even where it relates to ground beyond his personal observation" p. 93. Octavo pp. 11 numbered 93-103. Original blue card wrappers sewn as issued front cover lettered in black. Covers and contents lightly creased and toned: very good. 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
192948589Macmillan 1929. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece plates inc. 2 folding panoramas and 2 folding coloured maps neat ignature on front paste-down; original teracotta cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back gil top uncut trivial nick at extreme head of backstrip else a very good bright crisp clean copy. With personal bookplates on front paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Macmillan, hardcover
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
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
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
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
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
192316926London: John Murray. Good. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in bown cloth with two spine labels. lxxxvi & 527pp. Illustrated with a tissue protected portrait frontispiece. "INDIAN TEXT SERIES KASHMIRI STORIES AND SONGS RECORDED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF PANDIT GOVIND KAUL. BY SIR AUREL STEIN AND EDITED WITH A TRANSLATION LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS VOCABULARY & INDEXES BY SIR GEORGE GRIERSON WITH A NOTE ON THE FOLKLORE OF THE TALES BY W. CROOKE". Tiny pin holes mainly in the bottom margin of the first few pages; last few pages are lightly foxed. Asia India ; Portrait Frontispiece; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pages . John Murray hardcover
1933mon0003322514Macmillan and Co. Limited 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
191928447Paris: Maison du livre 1919. Fine. Maison du livre Paris 1919 12.50 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Ecstatic autograph inscription signed full-page by the author to Robert Desnos : ""Merde / Robert Desnos"". Spine faded repaired first cover lined with small marginal repairs lower cover missing. A precious relic. Maison du livre unknown
18842789Budapest: Tettey Nándor 1884. Second edition. In original binding. In very good condition. Second edition. In original binding. 420 p. with the portrait of the author. During the author's trip he thoroughly visited North America and also visited the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia. He reports in detail about his experiences personal experiences and the American social conditions in his work. Tettey Nándor unknown
2015Manohar-9780415720502Routledge 2015. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2015Manohar-9780415720502Routledge 2015. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
19473194Budapest 1947. Fine conditon. Bernath writes about current affairs and an exhibition in Paris. unknown
19091270Budapest: S.n. 1909. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerzÅ‘ megbÃzásából†Author’s commission. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Front cover rubbed. Small damage to the tail of spine. Inside clean and firm. Overall in very good condition. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerzÅ‘ megbÃzásából†Author’s commission. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 30 p. <p><br /> First Hungarian separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908.<br /> <p><p><br /> Stein read the paper at the Hungarian Geographical Society on April 23 and 26 1909 and it was first published in “Földrajzi Közlemények†Vol. 37 no. 7–8 1909. pp. 281–94; 329–44 . This is its offprint edition with separate page numbers. Subsequently an English translation was also published in Hungary.<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
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
