alexanders track indus personal narrative von stein sir aurel (3 Ergebnisse)

Facsimile. F/F. 8vo. original textured paper boards in dustwrapper; pp. xvi (last blank), 182, [6 (pubs. cat.), with illustrations & maps. A fine copy, as new.

Hardcover. 182 p. From the library of Professor Dr Georg Buddruss, who held the Chair of Indology at the University of Mainz for many years. We are delighted to have taken over the majority of his valuable collection. Please also have a look at our other offers. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. With name entry by Professor Dr Georg Buddruss. Binding stained. With dust jacket. Dust jacket with edge tears. Spine edge slightly bumped. Otherwise a tidy copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

First edition. 8vo. (243mm. ) Pp. [7] viii - xvi, [1] 2 - 182. Teg. With a half title. Uncut. Plates, 97, including two folding panoramas, and two folding maps. Errata leaf tipped in between p.xvi and [1]( i.e sigs A8 and B1 ). Half title spotted, contents clean and bright. Publisher's terracotta brown cloth backed boards, very slightly soiled , central gilt lozenge on the upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt, the head slightly pulled, previous owner's name in light pencil on the front pastedown. Stein, Aurel ( 1862 - 1943 ) scholar, explorer, archaelogist and geographer was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a young man he became fascinated by the campaigns and travels of Alexander the Great, - " in 1926 he took a short journey to the north of Peshawer, and in 1927 - 28, prompted by Marshall's discovery of the ancient civilisation of the Indus Valley, he mad two journeys through Baluchistan in search of links with the prehistoric civilisation of Sumeria " Howgego p.885 For more details of Stein seeODNB. Howgego S65. Yakushi S336.