sir marc aurel stein (7 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.

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 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). Howgego IV S65; Yakushi S338. Jeannette Mirsky, Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer, 1998. 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.

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.

"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.