Marc aurel stein (21 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. [3], iii, 115 pp., 66 figures in text, 8 plates hors text, 2 folding maps at rear, later cloth-backed boards, original wrappers laid down, light soiling to lower margin of title page, otherwise copy in very good condition, memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India No 42, Government of India Central Publication Branch. One of 750 copies only. Sir Aurel Stein's work in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, includes archaeological tours, survey work and excavations carried out during his service in India from 1898 to 1928. Many of the sites visited by Stein had never been explored by Europeans before. Most of them yielded Buddhist remains, though his main interest in the region was to follow Alexander the Great's route to the Indus. Throughout his work, Stein made attempts to identify sites with references both to Classical and Buddhist sources. Although not all identifications were correct, some proved to be valid and have paved the way for later archaeologists. Stein retired from service in India in 1917 but obtained an extension of service on 'special duty' to work on publications, the collections from his third Central Asian expedition and other projects until 1928. It was during this time that he returned to conduct another archaeological tour in Upper Swat, a place he had long wanted to visit, in search of Aornos, the site of Alexander's last siege before advancing to the Indus. Swat, historically known as Uddyana (lit. Garden) is a river valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. It is the upper valley of the Swat River, which rises in the Hindu Kush range. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main town in the Swat valley is Mingora. It was a princely state until 1969 when it was dissolved alongside the states of Dir and Chitral and made part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, then known as North-West Frontier Province. Ethnic Pashtuns and Gujjar and Kohistani communities mostly populate the valley. Bibliographic references: Creswell, 1282, British Museum/Rienjang; Yakushi S337. #34079.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding with Stein`s trademark gilt Athena device on the front cover, xxviii, 432 pages, 112 illustrations on plates plus 31 extra plates at the end, 7 maps, includeing one folding map and an extra large colour folding map in a separate pocket inside the rear cover, 25 plans, all complete as published. Ex-library copy with beautiful armorial bookplate of Bristol University, small stamps on tile and last plate (also discard stamps), ghost of small label on spine, small spot on front cover, top edge gilt, rear hinge split (but binding very firm), upper corner slightly bumped, still a very good and pleasing copy of a rare book. Stein`s last book, his popularity already descending, this 1st and only edition of this seminal work is rare. Iran has made it to the newslines again, at that time, Stein travelled unhindered on exiting routes. A phantastic book. Very heavy, additional shipping is likely. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of a fascinating archaeological study into a region trodden by Alexander the Great and Achaemenid rulers, profusely illustrated throughout. The first edition of Old Routes of Western Iran: Narrative of an Archaeological Journey, a fascinating study into the historic region, carried out and recorded by Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein, with antiquities described and examined by British scholar Frederick Henry Andrews. In the publisher's decorative original maroon cloth. A copy belonging to Bath Public Reference Library. Contains all one-hundred and twelve photographic illustrations, all thirty-one plates of artefacts to the rear, in-text maps, as well as both folding maps, including one in colour tucked into rear pastedown. Collated complete. Being a region trodden by both Alexander the Great and the rulers of Achaemenid Persia, Western Iran was at the heart of the ancient world but is known for having surprisingly little detail recorded about it. With the book covering Stein's four journeys between 1932-1936, we are offered a wonderful portrait of both Hellenic and Persian archaeology which once riddled the region. Aurel Stein was also an important figure within the Great Game, the imperial struggle for influence in Central Asia between Britain and Russia. In the publisher's decorative original maroon cloth. A copy previously belonging to Bath Public Reference Library. Externally, mostly smart, with the light handling marks to boards and spine. Minor rubbing to joints. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. A library number to spine. End papers are mostly bright and clean, with minor age toning to extremities. Library bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The odd library stamp to plates. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning to leaf extremities. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

In publisher's yellow wrappers. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher's yellow wrappers. 295300, (2) p. Stein's early paper on the archeological excavations and findings in Khotan during his first major expedition to Central-Asia in 19001901. Originally published in Journal of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1901. Sir Marc Aurél Stein (18621943) 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, 19061908, 19131916 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. . 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. …

One of the scarcer Stein titles, presumably due to its wartime publication. This is the record of Stein's travels between 1932 and 1936 through Southern and Western Iran from the extreme south-east of Baluchistan to the Persian frontiers with Iraq and Turkey in the hills of Kurdistan. First edition; 8vo (24 x 17.5 cm); coloured folding map in pocket at rear, 112 photographic illustrations, 31 plates of antiquities at end, 25 plans, and 7 maps, discreet previous ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original cloth, gilt medallion to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; xxviii, 432 pp. …

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. 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. Yakushi S336.…

2 vols. Folio (265 x 322 mm). (1), XXIV, 621, (1) pp. VII, (1) pp., plus plates numbered I-CXVIII (lacking plate 119, "Judaeo-Persian document"). Later half leather and cloth; modern endpapers. (With:) Stein, M. A. Preliminary Report on a Journey of Archaeological and Topographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1901. 4to. 77, (1) pp. With 8 plates. Modern library leather covered with the original gilt cloth. First edition of this defining archaeological text on the ancient site of Dandan Oilik (or Uiliq), a settlement built around an oasis along the Silk Road at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, where it flourished around the sixth century but was abandoned by the eighth. The author, Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), was an Hungarian-British archaeologist who also dabbled as an ethnographer, surveyor, geographer, and linguist. Stein completed his most important work in Central Asia, and his excavation of Dandan Oilik was both the first to be made on the site and his most important contribution to the field of archaeology. - Illustrated with over one hundred plates across two volumes, most photographic and many half-tone, recorded herein is a huge variety of finds from the Dandan Oilik excavations, including many quite rare survivals made possible by the desert environment. These include coloured wall frescoes and painted shrine panels, swatches of ancient silk and cotton, very delicate woven textiles, and manuscripts on tablets, paper, and silk. Though excavated several times following Stein and most recently surveyed in 2006, the site has not been fully excavated and remains closed to the public, making this textual record of its earliest excavation of particular importance. - Wanting one plate. Some toning and chipping throughout, with a few closed tears and folding map repaired; library markings removed from title-page. Stein's "Preliminary Report", published six years before his great two-volume study, bears the contemporary stamps of the Civil Secretariat Library, Central Provinces, Nagpur. - OCLC 905448249.…

Two disbound reports (from the Annual Report for the Smithsonian Institution): pp 727-746, 9 black and white photographic plates; pp 747-774, map +12 black and white photographic plates 22.5 x 15 cms; in very good condition. Two reports published in the 1903 Annual Report for the Smithsonian Institution: The first by Gombojab Tsybikov (1873-1930), who was an ethnic Buryat from Russia who spent over a year in Lhasa (1900-1901), sponsored by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Tsybikoff was credited for being the first photographer of Tibet and this report features 12 early photographic plates; The second is by Aurel Stein and features photographic plates and reserach ftom the first of his four expeditions into Central Asia.…

Hardcover. Zustand: USED. Language: English. THIS RARE/ANTIQUE BOOK PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1989 BY Kusumanjali Prakashan,meerut HAVING 196 PGS AND SIZE 5.50*8.75 WRITTEN IN English. THE BOOK IS IN READABLE CONDITION Originally in Hardcover with some issues like Hb damage & Without Jacket and some Pin Holes. THE IMAGE OF THIS BOOK IS GIVEN FOR YOUR REFERENCE. WE CAN REBIND THE SAME IN LEATHER BINDING FOR EXTRA $ 25. 196.…

Two volumes. Volume I: Folding genealogical table, xxxi + 402pp. Volume II: 2 folding colour maps in pocket at rear, 1 missing, iv + 555pp, 24 x 17cm. Endpapers marked and browned, some light general wear but good, clean and firm copies. Indian reprint of Stein's great work of scholarship, originally published in 1900. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. To a Mrs Steane from Corpus Christi College , Oxford. 2 pages, about 180 words date February 5th 1930. She was married to a fellow traveller/ explorer H. M. Steane, a British colonial officer who served in the Kashmir Forest Service - he is best remembered for his involvement in early Himalayan exploration. After retiring from his post in Kashmir, Steane was employed by Duke of the Abruzzi to superintend and manage the complex transport, supply, and porter arrangements for the famous 1909 Italian expedition to K2 and the Karakoram. His deep knowledge of the local terrain, languages, and logistics in the Kashmir region made him invaluable . Written after returning from a lecture tour in America, thanking her for a letter and a card he notes "I was delighted to hear that you and Mr Steane had visited 'my Marg' " (Mohand Marg was Sir Marc Aurel Stein's favorite alpine meadow camp in Kashmir, where he spent many summers living in a tent writing, planning expeditions etc.,) He talks of his intention to see the couple on his return to Kashmir in late May. Signed in pen 'A Stein.' Slight staing to the paper, faint creasing esle very good. Signedes.…

First edition, from the library of one of the author's successors in the field, of this extensively illustrated publication chronicling Stein's second expedition to Central Asia, undertaken between 1906 and 1908. "Stein's best-known find came at Tunhuang in 1907. when he reached the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas. Discovering thousands of manuscripts, paintings, and textiles walled up in a room in one of the caves, he bribed the custodian to part with many of them. Experts later found them to date from the fifth to tenth centuries AD. They included votive banners, Buddhist texts, and early secular works in a wide variety of scripts and languages, and a large, block-printed roll, dating from AD 868, which proved to be the world's oldest known printed book, a copy of the popular Buddhist work The Diamond Sutra" (ODNB). This copy belonged to David Talbot Rice (1903-1972). "Although best-known as a Byzantine scholar, Talbot Rice also pioneered the post-war study of Islamic art in Britain" (ODNB). His bookplate is on the front pastedowns. Howgego IV S65; Yakushi S331. 2 vols, octavo. Tissue-guarded frontispieces (Vol. I in colour), many plates (7 colour), 6 folding panoramas, 3 folding colour maps; each vol. with single leaf of publishers adverts at end. Publisher's remainder binding of brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges brown. Light rubbing, top edge of vol. I faded, contents generally clean and fresh, the occasional leaves unopened: very good indeed.…

Zustand: gut. Serindia Vol. V. Maps In englischer Sprache. pages.

First edition of this comprehensive scientific report of Stein's 1913-16 expedition, during which he travelled to Kashgar and Khotan, and across the Pei-shan, the Turfan depression, and the Pamirs to Samarkand, before turning south through eastern Persia to Baluchistan. As with Stein's other expedition publications, the work is superbly produced and presented. "Stein's great achievement. was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia. Despite the fact that better-financed expeditions from Germany and France (led by Professor Albert Grunwedel and Albert von Le Coq, and Paul Pelliot respectively) worked in the same area, Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of the Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" (ODNB). Howgego III S65; Yakushi S720. 3 vols, quarto, and custom map case. With 505 half-tone illustrations from photographs (some on folding sheets) in text vols, 138 plates (a few in colour) and 59 plans in third vol.; 52 folding maps (four tabbed A-D and in printed envelope) housed in map case. Vols in original brownish-red cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, front covers with embossed gilt roundel showing Athena with arm outstretched brandishing the aegis incorporating the gorgoneion (Stein's personal emblem), fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Recent brownish-red cloth map case with spine label, standing in for original map case (no longer present). Vols generally clean and fresh, extremities a little bumped, index map in custom case creased and marked, a few others lightly worn as expected: a very good set.…

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. …

First Edition. 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.…

First edition. 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 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) 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.…

First edition of the account of the three very important explorations by the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein's (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. 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). Pages: xxiv, 342, [2] pp. …

"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) Howgego IV, S65; Yakushi S328a. 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.…