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1161076751.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
3662361418.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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101538935X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
642984558Perseus Books Group . Papeback. New. Perseus Books Group unknown
1989141120gian publishing house 1989 hardback book and dust jacket in near fine to fine conditionstatedfirst reprint 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. gian publishing house hardcover
a107729London 1927 first edition. Royal Geographical Society. Two octavo wraps issues in original printed blue covers. November issue has Stein article pp. 417-439; December issues pp. 515-540. Includes several bw photo plates on glossy stock and text illustrations. VG no owner marks. some light wear. 2 issues: . paperback
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
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1016013051.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
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
1969215105New York.: Greenwood. 1969. Maps 1 folding loosely inserted many illustrations 31 black and white plates xxviii 432pp index very light foxing edges but overall a very nice hardback copy. Archaeological expedition 1932-36. . Greenwood. hardcover
1929002701London: Macmillan & Co Limited 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. xvi 182 2 folding maps at the back. Publisher's brown cloth gilt with embossed gilt decoration to front cover top edge gilt frontispiece title vignette 97 illustrations of places people landscapes buildings etc. Slight toning of eps owner inscription of Oxford scholar D.Penny on ffep a few minor bumps and marks and rubbing of top and tail of spine else very good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾ <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Co Limited hardcover
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
1964048171New York: Pantheon Books 1964. First edition 1964. Illustrated in black and white with a double page map of Chinese Turkestan and Adjacent Areas. Black cloth with dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition with good hinges firm text block clean pages no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has a couple of very minor closed tears to the top edge of front front panel no chips. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pantheon Books Hardcover
1992002651Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc. 1992. Detailed account of three expeditions undertaken by intrepid Hungarian explorer and archaeologist Stein between 1900 and 1914. Tracing both the ancient southern and northern silk routes over high mountain ranges and desert in and around Chinese Turkestan now Xinjiang Stein discovered and excavated several highly important sites recovering a trove of ancient documents paintings tapestries and Buddhist relics as well as documenting and photographing the ruins of early settlements in the area. A high quality reprint of Stein's original 1933 edition. A new copy never previously owned or read. xxiv 342 pp. 17 col. and 131 b&w photos of which 6 are multi-page fold-out panoramas 1 fold-out col. map. . Reprint edition. Hardbound. New/new. 22 x 16 cm. SMC Publishing Inc. Hardcover
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
1016180454.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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