1 430 résultats
1912réf. 88842London: Macmillan 1912. Con centinaia di tavole f.t. di cui 14 tavole perlopiù ripiegate in nero ed a colori e 3 grandi tavole geografiche più volte ripiegate. Legatura editoriale in piena tela color vinaccia con titoli in oro ai dorsi e medaglioni ai piatti. Tagli di testa dorati. Esemplare genuino ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Edizione originale di questa celebre ed importante relazione di viaggio con la quale l'autore intende rendere noti i risultati delle esplorazioni archeologiche e geografiche compiute negli anni 1906 e 1908. Macmillan, hardcover
1933Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 fine coloured plates (complete with captioned guards) on 15, 123 monochrome plates on 78, 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and a 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
1996réf. 016653New Delhi: Asia Educational Services 1996. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 22.5x14.5.cm. xxxviii546pp xxi517pp illustrated throughout including folding plates. Bound in original publishers red cloth gilt tooling image pasted on top boards. Very minor abrasion wear. Both volumes in very good clean condition. Internally previous owners bookplate pages in near fine condition. A very nice clean set. . Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Asia Educational Services Hardcover
1904réf. 16471London: Hurst and Blackett 1904. Early printing. With a large folding map and 135 illustrations. 8vo original sienna polished cloth gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in black and yellow on the spine and decorated and lettered in black and yellow on the upper cover. xv 503. A fresh and desirable copy of this scarce and important work pages 13-28 with either a chip or neat repair along the bottom margin not effecting the text in any way head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and with a small chip. VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK BY STEIN. In 1900-1901 Stein excavated several ruined sites in the Taklamakan Desert around Khotan publishing his experiences in SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN. This would be the first of two expeditions which would lead to his being awarded the Founder's Gold Medal by the Royal Geographic Society. The rare account of Stein’s first great Central Asian expedition. Stein followed in the footsteps of Sven Hedin who in 1893 had found unexplored ruins at the oasis of Khotan along the southern edge of the great Taklamakan desert in Chinese Turkestan. Hedin was unable to undertake any systematic examination of the sitebut Stein convinced the Indian Government under Lord Curzon to supply and fund his archaeological and geographical expedition in 1900-01. Stein’s excavations became the first scientific survey of the spread of Buddhism out of India and into greater Asia. Hurst and Blackett hardcover
réf. Cosmo-8170207037Cosmo Publications. Hardcover. New. Cosmo Publications hardcover
réf. Cosmo-8170207037Cosmo Publications. HARDBOUND. New. This is a book of rare value available again now after a long gap of time. It contains detailed descriptions of the valuable documents found by Sir Aurel Stein on his successive expeditions to Central Asia transliterated as well as systematically arranged by the editors each of them reputed scholaThe book is divided into three parts the first part contains descriptions of the documents discovered by Sir Aurel Stein during his first expedition to the ancient archaeological site beyond the Niya River in Chinese Turkestan in the years 1900-01. Details of the expedition itself are to be found in Aurel Steins Ancient Khotan.The second part of the book describes the documents discovered by Stein in his second expedition to Chinese Turkestan in the years 1906-08. The sites covered were in the regions of Niya Endere and Lou-lan.The third part completes the publication of the Kharosthi Inscriptions discovered by Aurel Stein in his first second and third expeditions to Chinese Turkestan. It contains the text of the documents found at Niya and Lou-lan sites in the years 1913-16 detailed accounts of which are available in Sir Aurel Steins Innermost Asia.The volume also contains the corrigenda to parts I & II CHAPTERS ON The Kharosthi Alphabet of Chinese Turkestan and on index of words occurring in the inscriptions published in parts I-III.This book will be of immense value to all students of ancient history archaeology and linguistics as well as those interested in the geographical region of Central Asia. It would complete any shelf on the works of Sir Aurel Stein.Ancient Khotan in 3 volumes and Innermost Asia in 5 volumes are also published by Cosmo Publications New Delhi. 400 pages Illustrations Cosmo Publications hardcover
1929réf. 48589Macmillan 1929. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece plates inc. 2 folding panoramas and 2 folding coloured maps neat ignature on front paste-down; original teracotta cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back gil top uncut trivial nick at extreme head of backstrip else a very good bright crisp clean copy. With personal bookplates on front paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Macmillan, hardcover
1933réf. 21194London: 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
1897réf. 1236Budapest: Franklin-Társulat nyomdája 1897. First separate edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. Artistically restored. In very good condition. First separate edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. 27 1 p. Stein’s inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in August 1897 inscribed to his cousin in the Upper Bavarian spa town Bad Reichenhall. Stein was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1895 while he was working at the Punjab University in Lahore thus he held his inaugural lecture only two years later on his visit to Europe. It has been published subsequently in “Budapesti Szemle” and also as an offprint. The English translation only appeared in 1905 in the “Indian Antiquary” Bombay Bombay Education Society's Press. Sir Marc Aurél Stein 1862–1943 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 1906–1908 1913–1916 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. . Franklin-Társulat nyomdája unknown
1904réf. 2154Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1904. First. Orig Printed Wraps. VG. pp 747-774 with plates 1-7 from the Smithsonian Report for 1903. Map showing a portion of Chinese Turkestan taken from Stein's original. Very scarce Stein offprint/ephemera. VG in original printed Smithsonian wrappers. Smithsonian Institution unknown
1927réf. 68246London: Royal Geographic Society November and December 1927. Extracts from two RGS's Journals 8vo pp. 417-440; 515-540 i.e. 50 pages; 10 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 3 plates map in the text and a folding map printed in color at the back; neatly bound in black cloth-backed blue paper wrappers printed paper label on spine; fine. Royal Geographic Society, November and December unknown
1981réf. 1418538New Delhi India: Cosmo Publications 1981. Hardcover. Quarto 10 211 i-xxxiii image plates 1-13 site maps. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is wrapped in mylar sleeve several small open tears and chipping to top edge one large 4 in. x 2 in. section of back cover missing. Spine is black with white and blue lettering. Volume fully bound in red cloth some light stains to cloth. Cracking to gutter from half title page to page 9. Light age toning throughout textblock and dust soiling to top edge of textblock. Shelved in Locked Annex ND-QA. 1418538. FP New Rockville Stock. Cosmo Publications hardcover
1982réf. Alibris.0009422New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. 1982. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn with tears. ii ii 211 p. 65 p. of plates: ill. maps; 29 cm. Includes: Illustrations Maps Plates. . Reprint. Originally published: 1931. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cosmo Publications hardcover
1975réf. GM23102 Vols. pub in 1. Reprint Ed. Thick Folio. xxiv 621pp vii. 119 plates 1 folding map. Red cloth small stain on bottom edge of text otherwise Very Good condition. NOTE: This is a very heavy book. Additional shipping/insurance will be required. Shipping ONLY in the USA. Hacker Art Books hardcover
réf. 1235Budapest: 1885 Franklin-Társulat Könyvnyomdája. First separate edition. Offprint with separate pagination pp. 1–19. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers dusted inside clean. Overall in fine condition. First separate edition. Offprint with separate pagination pp. 1–19. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 1–19 1 p. Extremely scarce first separate edition of Stein’s first publication his paper on Persian religious literature. Written while he studied in Britain on a Hungarian scholarship at the Trinity College in Cambridge. Originally published in Budapesti Szemle Vol. 44. no. 108 pp. 365–383 Sir Marc Aurél Stein 1862–1943 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 1906–1908 1913–1916 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. Extremely scarce. WorldCat locates only one copy in Israel. . 1885 unknown
1909réf. 1270Budapest: S.n. 1909. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerző megbízásából” Author’s commission. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Front cover rubbed. Small damage to the tail of spine. Inside clean and firm. Overall in very good condition. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerző megbízásából” Author’s commission. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 30 p. First Hungarian separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908. Stein read the paper at the Hungarian Geographical Society on April 23 and 26 1909 and it was first published in “Földrajzi Közlemények” Vol. 37 no. 7–8 1909. pp. 281–94; 329–44 . This is its offprint edition with separate page numbers. Subsequently an English translation was also published in Hungary. Sir Marc Aurél Stein 1862–1943 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 1906–1908 1913–1916 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. . [S.n.] unknown
1923réf. 68822Oxford: privately printed at the Clarendon Press 1923. First edition 8vo pp. 19 1; original brown printed wrappers; some minor creasing slight separation at the top of the spine; all else very good. Inscribed at the top of the from wrapper: "With kindest regards of / A. Stein." Pandit Govind Kaul a respected scholar of Persian and Sanskrit was born in Srinagar and came into contact with Aurel Stein through George Buhler "that doyen of European Indologists . It was Buhler's commendatory reference that attracted Stein's attention towards G.K. and he solicited his assistance in translating Kalhan's Rajatarangini - a job that G.K. along with Pandit Sahaz Bhatt did with utmost competence from 1888 to 1896 and to Stein's great satisfaction. "G.K. went into another collaboration with Stein and fellow scholar Sahaz Bhatt when they classified and catalogued more than six thousand Sanskrit manuscripts for Maharaja Ranbir Singh's library at Raghunath Temple Jammu. Yet another contribution G.K. made was to compile Kashmiri folk tales with Stein which the latter formally edited with George Grierson and published in 1917 as " Hatim's Tales." The tales supposedly told by one Hatim Tilawony were interpreted by Govind Kaul who also rendered assistance to Grierson in the compilation of his Kashmiri dictionary but did not live to see the work completed. Grierson went on to record later that Govind Kaul's assistance to him was "one of the many debts he ever owed to Stein. "On Govind Kaul's death in June 1899 a shocked Stein lamented that Govind Kaul ''like another Kalhana departed as my best Indian friend beyond all hope of reunion in this Janma'. Paying fulsome tributes to him Stein wrote: 'Whenever Govind Kaul was by my side whether in the dusty exile of Lahore or alpine coolness of Mohand Marg in Kashmir I was in continuity with the past as the historical student of India. His personality embodied all that change of ages indicated and showed as the mind and psyche of India'." Nine in OCLC: only Harvard LC and Wisconsin in the US. See Unmesh The Monthly Newsletter of the Kashmir Institute volume I no. 2 October 1997. privately printed at the Clarendon Press unknown
réf. 57215647-75Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1920réf. 72460Oxford: Clarendon Press 1920. First edition 3 volumes in 1 folio pp. 6 143 1; viii 155-266 vi 2 267-379 3; text in English with Prakrit text transliterated and with English supporting text; 13 gravure plates of facsimiles plus a final plate of Kharosthi letters and numerals; contemporary quarter black pebble-grain morocco likely a German binding smooth gilt-paneled spine laid out in 5 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; some scuffing and wear small cracks starting at the top and bottom of the upper joint otherwise a very good sound and clean copy. With a dozen or so typed and manuscript erudite notes in German laid in. Volume I: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya site 1901; volume II: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya Endere and Lou-lan sites 1906-7; and volume III: Text of inscriptions discovered at the Niya and Lou-lan sites 1913-14. Also with a complete index verborum. Erdelyi 2.08. Clarendon Press unknown
réf. ppk9900521Phoenix. Paperback. NEW. 9x6x0. Phoenix paperback
réf. ppk9900009Phoenix. Paperback. NEW. 9x6x0. Phoenix paperback
réf. 1025876415.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1025877004.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. YP-5M01-LQ34Hardcover. Very Good. No jacket as issued moderate external wear pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish binding firm map in rear pocket. hardcover
1972réf. 2231494New York: Benjamin Blom 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 182 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Dark maroon covers show light age wear light foxing to lower front corner light scuffs to back cover. Clean and tight copy including numerous b/w illustration and maps. Record # 2231494 Benjamin Blom hardcover