AURELLivre Rare Book
STEIN, AurelBiblio.com
A Chinese Expedition Across the Pamirs and Hindukush A.D. 747.
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
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni375,00 £GB≈ 428,17 €
