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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
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2007017136s.l.: Scholar Select 2007. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo royal. Facsimile. Brown and black boards xliii 524pp in-text illustrations. Scanned from the 1903 Edition at the University of California library. Fine. Scholar Select hardcover
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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
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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
122134London Royal Geographical Society 1908. . First edition; folio 34 x 22 cm; 23 panorama photos on 13 sheets many with two views per page one folding colour map; publisher's blue cloth gilt slightly rubbed ties lacking as often a very good copy; x 36 pp.<br /> Scarce early Stein item. The photographic panoramas are from the Kwen Lun range south of Khotan and on the Pamirs were taken on Stein's expedition in Chinese Turkestan 1900/1901. This was Stein's first exploration of Central Asia and this work provides a mass of geographical detail on the region.<br /> Yakushi S715. London, Royal Geographical Society, 1908. hardcover
120506London Macmillan and Co 1929. . First edition; 8vo 24 x 17.5 cm; numerous photographic illustrations of which several folding 2 folding maps contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper very occasional spot; publisher's original brown cloth gilt medallion to upper board spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt touch of bumping to head and foot of spine very occasional spot a very good copy; xvi 182 pp.<br /> The routes and battlefields of Alexander's campaign in the east had been a long-standing interest of Stein's and whilst surveying for the Indian Government on the North-West frontier he was able to indulge his fascination.<br /> Yakushi S336. London, Macmillan and Co, 1929. 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
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
120394London Macmillan and Co 1912. . First edition; 2 vols 8vo 24 x 18 cm; 3 maps 13 panoramas and 343 photographic illustrations; publisher's original brown cloth gilt medallion to upper covers gilt lettering to spines in rare original dust-jackets some very light rubbing to edges one small pinhole to spine of vol. 1 repaired tear to panel fold of vol. 2 repaired portion of lower panel of vol. 2 replaced in facsimile cloth books fine in well preserved dust-jackets; xxxviii 546 2 ads; xxi 517 2 ads pp.<br /> Complete with the rare original publisher's dust-jackets printed on cream paper in black with photograph to front panels leaving the books in truly fine condition.<br /><br />Popular account of Stein's second exploration to Central Asia between 1906 and 1909. From Khotan he surveyed eastwards to Loulan and in 1907 he reached Tunhwang where he visited and surveyed the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas.<br /> Yakushi S716. London, Macmillan and Co, 1912. hardcover
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