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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
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
1974047625Chicago: Ares Publishers 1974. xvi 182p. plus 97 b/w illus. folded map in the rear pocket original brown cloh ex libris. Reprint of the 1929 London edition. Ares Publishers unknown books
2021BIBHB0186964622021. Hardcover. New. ABOUT THE BOOK-: In this volume of his exploration Sir Aurel Stein presents the accounts of the vast deserts of Central Asia from 1900 to 1916 during which he was guided principally by the accounts of two earlier travelers Marco Polo and Hsuantsang. He covered more than 25000 miles on foot and sometimes by ponyback with a force consisting of few Muslims of the Indian survey department with a handful of caravan men and a motley band of local recruits for digging. He unearthed a host of oasis settlements and salvaged an immense amount of material which a loaded onto camels and eventually shipped to Delhi and London for study and display. ABOUT THE AUTHOR -: Sir Aurel Stein 1862-1943 was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at Indian universities. He was the author of many books including Chronicle of Kings of Kashmir On Alexander's Track to the Indus and On Old Routes of Western Iran. Aurel Stein originated in Hungary and completed his studies in Oxford University from where he took up the post of the principal in Lahore Oriental College. He later joined the Archaeological Survey of India which allow him to travel distant lands in some of the most obscure and inaccessible parts of North India and Beyond Stein was also an ethnographer geographer linguist and surveyor. His collection of books and manuscripts bought from Dunhuang caves is important for the study of the history of Central Asia and the art and literature of Buddhism. He wrote several volumes on his expeditions and discoveries which include Ancient Khotan Serindia and Innermost Asia. The Title 'On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and Northwestern China written/authored/edited by Aurel Stein' published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121229180 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 320 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: hardcover
1992mon0003892872SMC Publishing Inc 1992T. hardcover. Good. 1.6535 8.3465 5.9055. SMC Publishing Inc hardcover
9576381282.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
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
1933mon0003322514Macmillan and Co. Limited 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
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
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
196412-0291New York: Pantheon Books 1964. 1964 290pp map ed. by Jeannette Mirsky bottom corners bumped slight edgewear to dj contents clean. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. Pantheon Books Hardcover
86117107London 1933 MacMillan. 3/4 Leather over marbled boards 9 panoramic views 20 color plates123 b.w. photos fold-out map 342p. index very bright and clean copy. FIRST EDITION A succinct account of his explorations antiquarian and geo- graphical account in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia. Strenuous and hard travel were his daily path which led the author to places no white man traversed. His archaeological work into the Pamirs K'un-lun sand- buried sites Niya Miran Lou-lan cave shrines of the Thousand Buddhas at Dunhuang &c. These early important finds set off a sensation throughout the scholarly world and were the reason for subsequent research expeditions. A valuable important primary source. He was the last of the great geographers of uncharted areas. Stein 1862 to 1943. The First Edition was issued in brown cloth with gold stamping on the spine and covers with top edges in gilt 17 x 24 cm. . unknown
86117102London 1933 MacMillan. 3/4 Leather over marbled boards 9 panoramic views 20 color plates123 b.w. photos fold-out map 342p. index very good copy. FIRST EDITION A succinct account of his explorations antiquarian and geo- graphical account in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia. Strenuous and hard travel were his daily path which led the author to places no white man traversed. His archaeological work into the Pamirs K'un-lun sand- buried sites Niya Miran Lou-lan cave shrines of the Thousand Buddhas at Dunhuang &c. These early important finds set off a sensation throughout the scholarly world and were the reason for subsequent research expeditions. A valuable important primary source. He was the last of the great geographers of uncharted areas. Stein 1862 to 1943. The First Edition was issued in brown cloth with gold stamping on the spine and covers with top edges in gilt 17 x 24 cm. . unknown
86117103London 1933 MacMillan. Brown cloth very good 342p. index 9 panoramic views 20 color plates123 b.w. photos fold-out map very good 3 cm. tear front top hinge mended spine head & tail bit worn else clean & solid. FIRST EDITION A succinct account of his explorations antiquarian and geo- graphical account in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia. Strenuous and hard travel were his daily path which led the author to places no white man traversed. His archaeological work into the Pamirs K'un-lun sand- buried sites Niya Miran Lou-lan cave shrines of the Thousand Buddhas at Dunhuang &c. These early important finds set off a sensation throughout the scholarly world and were the reason for subsequent research expeditions. A valuable important primary source. He was the last of the great geographers of uncharted areas. Stein 1862 to 1943. The First Edition was issued in brown cloth with gold stamping on the spine and covers with top edges in gilt 17 x 24 cm. . 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
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
19741321432Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1974. Reprinted. Softcover. Octavo; pp 290; G/paperback; grayish green spine with beige and dark green text; covers show light sunning to exterior; lightly sunned spine; some rubbing wear to edges; intact panels; text block has light soiling to exterior edges; previous owner's name inside front cover; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated;. 1321432. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of Chicago Press unknown books
