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1903Best.-Nr. 68185London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903. First edition 8vo pp. xliii 1 524; folding map printed in color 135 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; this copy from the British Embassy in Peking Beijing with rubberstamps on endpapers and title page marked withdrawn and slight evidence of a sticker removal at the base of the spine but no other external markings; front hinge starting; a good sound and clean copy. "Stein was born in Budapest in 1862 and died at Kabul in 1943. This is 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" Yakushi . "Stein's great achievement during this and two subsequent expeditions . . . was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia . . . Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" ODNB. Yakushi S713; Erdelyi 1.041. T. Fisher Unwin unknown
Best.-Nr. 1108069738.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 97020701London 1928 Oxford. Rose cloth 4 vol. set: vol. 1-2 text vol. 3 plates & plans vol. 4 maps bibliography unclipped mended dust jackets in mylar protectors 25.5 x 34 cm. brilliantly bright superb clean copy. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 765 SETS . A monumental work well-illustrated study on the trade route countries of Central Asia. Always a rare set when complete. . "With descriptive lists of antiques by F.H. Andrews & F.M.G. Lorimer; & appendices by J. Allan et al." Volume 1 2: text 1159 pages with text illustrations. Vol. 3: 137 plates 59 plans. Vol. 4: 51 color folding maps in matching rose cloth case with index tabs. . M. AUREL STEINS PERSONAL COPY: This is a very nice copy which was likely owned by the author as his personal letter was found used as a book mark in one of the volumes. The letter is 19 x 25.5 cm. plain toned white paper written by Sir Aurel Stein using a very wide fountain pen and blue ink. The letter is in remarkable condition and has been folded twice but now is quite flat and solid. . WITH A VERY RARE HOLOGRAPHIC LETTER FROM AUREL STEIN: "At Highbroom Ewhurst Guilford: February 15 1925 Dear Sirs Thanks for your letter of the 9th inst. and the account rendered with it. I note in the account of entry of 10/6 charged for the Return of Income Tax for the years 1922-3 and 1923-4. As I was absent from the United Kingdom during the whole of these financial years no Income Tax was due from the royalties received in these years on my behalf. I accordingly request the favour of an explanation as to how this charge arises against my account and hope for a refund of the amount. Yours faithfully A. Stein" . Perhaps Aurel Stein got his reply from the Income Tax office and or this was a copy of his letter. It was found lost as a "book mark" found in this set. A lovely insight to Stein and his thoughts on how the British government had wrongly charged him Income Tax. A lovely holographic letter written in pen and ink in his usual and steady hand. Stein letters are rare and seldom found on the market. . FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 765 COPIES. We understand that this set was issued in a Limited Edition of only 765 complete copies the balance of 250 sets were incomplete as they lacked 48 maps. . THE MAPS AND MAP BOX VOLUME: The matching map box is also in bound in rose cloth 25.5 x 34 cm. and is 5 cm. thick. There is some minor and usual wear to the upper and lower part of the hinged flap with some old mends. The contents consist of 47 maps each with white index tabs plus 4 other maps index tabs: "ABCD" and the index complete as issued. . CONDITION: . Bound in the publisher's cloth as issued. . This is the brightest and freshest copy we have ever had in our 45 years of tenure. The cloth of the main three volumes is nearly flawless with bright rose color brilliant gold stamping on the spines and front covers. There is no scuffing whatsoever and the head/tails of the spines are fresh with a few of the usual wrinkles expected. The joints are strong tight and the book appears to be by and large unused. There are a few bumped corners: vol. 1: the front upper right corner has a very small bump; vol. 2: faint and very tiny hint of a bump on front lower right else none; vol. 3: front right and left and rear corners tiny bump front lower right a larger bump please see scans posted to our website for photographs. . DUST JACKETS: The set of three volumes all have the original dust jackets each protected in Mylar covers. There was some of the usual wear to the unprotected dust jackets and some restoration with matching paper was performed from the inside to stabilize the tears and small missing pieces. Overall the jackets are nice with some repairs to the upper and lower spine as well as corners and a few other spots here and there. Finding this set with the dust jacket is exceptionally rare and unusual. The set if ever found most always lacks the dust jackets. . . BIBLIOGRAPHY: . Stein 1862-1943. Arntzen I 506. . unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 68185London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903. First edition 8vo pp. xliii 1 524; folding map printed in color 135 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; this copy from the British Embassy in Peking Beijing with rubberstamps on endpapers and title page marked withdrawn and slight evidence of a sticker removal at the base of the spine but no other external markings; front hinge starting; a good sound and clean copy. "Stein was born in Budapest in 1862 and died at Kabul in 1943. This is 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" Yakushi . "Stein's great achievement during this and two subsequent expeditions . . . was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia . . . Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" ODNB. Yakushi S713; Erdelyi 1.041. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 792761927. Paperback. Good. photos folding map viii pp. 417-512. Original blue wrapper. 25cm. Moderate cover soil. Includes the first part of a paper by Stein titled "Alexander's Campaign on the Indian North-West Frontier" found at pp. 417-440 -- plus the folding map at the end. paperback books
Best.-Nr. 122134London Royal Geographical Society 1908. . First edition; folio 34 x 22 cm; 23 panorama photos on 13 sheets many with two views per page one folding colour map; publisher's blue cloth gilt slightly rubbed ties lacking as often a very good copy; x 36 pp. Scarce early Stein item. The photographic panoramas are from the Kwen Lun range south of Khotan and on the Pamirs were taken on Stein's expedition in Chinese Turkestan 1900/1901. This was Stein's first exploration of Central Asia and this work provides a mass of geographical detail on the region. Yakushi S715. London, Royal Geographical Society, 1908. hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 217703Delhi.: Motilal Banarsidass. 1961. 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. . Motilal Banarsidass. unknown
1901Best.-Nr. 1246S.n.: N.p. 1901. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher’s yellow wrappers. 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. In publisher’s yellow wrappers. 295–300 2 p. Stein’s early paper on the archeological excavations and findings in Khotan during his first major expedition to Central-Asia in 1900–1901. 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 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. . [N.p.] unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 120395London Macmillan and Co 1929. . First edition; 8vo 24 x 17.5 cm; numerous photographic illustrations of which several folding 2 folding maps discreet booksellers stamp to front pastedown; publisher's original brown cloth gilt medallion to upper board spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt a little bumping to extremities and cloth slightly raised in a couple places a very good copy; xvi 182 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. Yakushi S336. London, Macmillan and Co, 1929. hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 030709London: Macmillan and Co Ltd 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ruddy cloth gilt front corners and head bumped white soiling on the rear. Foxed interior. Gilt top edge. Contains 50 plates 2 folding panoramic views and 2 folding colour maps. Review copy with publisher's notice laid in. Stein traced Alexander the Great's march of conquest towards India which opened up that area to classical Western culture. Macmillan and Co Ltd Hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. H7RBM33W6TKBLondon 1933. Large 8vo. MacMillan and co. 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. xxiv 342 2 pp. First edition of the account of the three very important explorations by the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Steins 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. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 67321London: Macmillan & Co 1912. 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. Macmillan & Co unknown
Best.-Nr. 1437277926.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1169978037.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 1165062054.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1437152759.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 1164951610.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2008Best.-Nr. DADAX1437152759Kessinger Publishing 2008-10-01. paperback. New. 6.00x1.30x8.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
Best.-Nr. 84718Quaritch. London 1921. . First edition. Atlas volume only. Large portfolio with 33 colour plates original cloth-backed printed boards printed label. "The purpose of this publication is to place before students interested in Eastern art reproductions of select specimens from among the great collections of ancient Buddhist paintings which in the course of my second Central Asian journey carried out in 1906-08 under the orders of the Government of India I had the good fortune to recover from a walled-up chapel at the Caves of the Thousand Buddas near Tun-Huang". Probably Stein's greatest discovery these treasures are now in the British Museum and have the same potential to cause controversy as the Elgin Marbles. Quaritch. London 1921. hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 85921Guangxi Guilin Shi: Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she 1998. Di 1 ban. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5 volumes 4 text and one unbound map portfolio. Original cloth. 43cm. Volume 5 the map portfolio contains 96 unbound maps with overlays -- 94 of the maps are numbered 1-94; the other two are unnumbered. This tied portfolio is housed in a cloth slipcase matching the text volumes in color and approximate size. The whole set is contained in a tied folding portfolio. Shipping weight for this folio-sized set is probably about 55 lbs 25 kilos. Chinese text. This massive set is the Chinese translation of Stein's massive and most sought-after work "Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China." which was published in 1921. Stein is often regarded in China as little more than an opportunistic Western looter of China's ancient manuscripts and archeological treasures so it is probably not surprising that it took 77 years for a Chinese translation to be published. Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 85921Guangxi Guilin Shi: Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she 1998. Di 1 ban. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5 volumes 4 text and one unbound map portfolio. Original cloth. 43cm. Volume 5 the map portfolio contains 96 unbound maps with overlays -- 94 of the maps are numbered 1-94; the other two are unnumbered. This tied portfolio is housed in a cloth slipcase matching the text volumes in color and approximate size. The whole set is contained in a tied folding portfolio. Shipping weight for this folio-sized set is probably about 55 lbs 25 kilos. Chinese text. This massive set is the Chinese translation of Stein's massive and most sought-after work "Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China." which was published in 1921. Stein is often regarded in China as little more than an opportunistic Western looter of China's ancient manuscripts and archeological treasures so it is probably not surprising that it took 77 years for a Chinese translation to be published. Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she hardcover books
1912Best.-Nr. 67321London: Macmillan & Co 1912. 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. Macmillan & Co unknown books
Best.-Nr. a107729London 1927 first edition. Royal Geographical Society. Two octavo wraps issues in original printed blue covers. November issue has Stein article pp. 417-439; December issues pp. 515-540. Includes several bw photo plates on glossy stock and text illustrations. VG no owner marks. some light wear. 2 issues: . paperback
1931Best.-Nr. 29308Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Half leather/cloth titled in gilt; hubbed spine. Edges are rubbed cloth lightly stained corners bumped. Text block edge foxed. Very occasional foxing to leaves. Foldout map 64 photos 33 plates 13 plans. Original wrappers bound in. One of 750 copies. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India no. 43. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Government of India Central Publication Branch hardcover
