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Innermost Asia. Detailed Report of Exploration in Central Asia Kan-Su and Eastern Iran.

1928réf. 191508Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1928. Stein's great achievement. was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization 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. 3 vols quarto and custom map case. With 505 halftone 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. Howgego III S65; Yakushi S720. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni12 500,00 £GB≈ 14 991,60 €

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