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Best.-Nr. DADAX1108077528Cambridge University Press 2014-10-02. Reissue. paperback. New. 5.75x1.75x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press paperback
1968Best.-Nr. 406395New York : Benjamin Blom 1968. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Three volumes complete. The first two are text only with a frontispiece 546 and 517 pages. The third volume is all b&w plates including fold-out maps and panoramas in rear. White textured cloth covers all clean and tight. Record # 406395 Benjamin Blom hardcover
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1968Best.-Nr. 34522New York: Greenwood Press Publishers 1968. Reprint. Cloth Covered Boards. Good . Brown cloth covered boards corners straight. Black titles onlaid to spine. Book body clean illustrated pull-out maps. Greenwood Press, Publishers unknown
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1987Best.-Nr. I5414New York: White Lotus Press 1987. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.54. Ruins of Desert Cathay Vol. I-II White Lotus Press paperback
Best.-Nr. 85137606New York 1968 Greenwood. Brown cloth very good 2 vol. set 546517p. 3 fold out maps 332 photos index many b w photos 6 fold-out panorama photos reprint of London 1912 clean bright copy black spine labels. SCARCE . . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE: A FIRST STUDY . . The most fascinating of Stein's popular publications including chapters on his negotiations for the treasures i the walled-up library at Dunhuang. His personal record of archeological & geographical explorations carried out in the remote parts of Asia. . Stein traveled on foot over 10000 miles from the valley of the Indo-Afghan border across the snowy ranges of the Hindu Kush up the cradle of the River Oxus on the roof of the world & down to the Tarim River basin to the dreaded Taklamakan desert. A keen archaeological primary resource plus the first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddha's. A major resource for early Buddhist studies and Central Asian exploration the Silk Road and that whole area. By and large the most impressive resource on this hitherto unexplored area. The Holy Grail of early Buddhist images and Buddhism. . THE FIRST EDITION WAS LONDON 1912 IN 2 VOLUMES. Bound in original brown cloth with gold-stamping and top edges gilt 17 x 24 cm. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCES: . Yakushi S331 Stein 1862-1943 . unknown
Best.-Nr. 85137601London 1912 Macmillan. Brown cloth teg. very good 2 vol. set 546517p. index 3 fold-out maps line drawings332 bw photos 9 color lithos 6 fold-out panoramas 17 x 24 cm. a bit of minor damp stain to end paperspine 1 corner bumped. . . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE: A FIRST STUDY . . The most fascinating of Stein's popular publications including chapters on his negotiations for the treasures i the walled-up library at Dunhuang. His personal record of archeological & geographical explorations carried out in the remote parts of Asia. . Stein traveled on foot over 10000 miles from the valley of the Indo-Afghan border across the snowy ranges of the Hindu Kush up the cradle of the River Oxus on the roof of the world & down to the Tarim River basin to the dreaded Taklamakan desert. A keen archaeological primary resource plus the first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddha's. A major resource for early Buddhist studies and Central Asian exploration the Silk Road and that whole area. By and large the most impressive resource on this hitherto unexplored area. The Holy Grail of early Buddhist images and Buddhism. . THE FIRST EDITION WAS LONDON 1912 IN 2 VOLUMES. Bound in original brown cloth with gold-stamping and top edges gilt 17 x 24 cm. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCES: . Yakushi S331 Stein 1862-1943 . unknown
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
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Best.-Nr. 1016180454.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1912Best.-Nr. 346470London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1912. 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. 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. 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 MacMillan and Co., Limited unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 93628NY:: Dover Publications. Near Fine. 1987. Paperback. B001DG5T9C . Complete in two volumes. Paperback reprint editions. Three maps and six photographic panoramas in rear pocket of second volume. Both volumes are about fine in pictorial wraps. . Dover Publications, paperback books
1912Best.-Nr. 41007London: Macmillan & Co. 1912. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.52". 2 vols. I: Col. frontis. xxxviii 546 pp.; 3 fold. plts. 105 2 col. plts. II: Frontis. xxi 1 517 3 2 adv. pp.; 4 fold. plts. 2 fold. maps 120 5 col. plts. First edition: "With numerous illustrations colour plates panoramas and maps from original surveys." Marc Aurel Stein conducted four expeditions to Central Asia that took him into Eastern Turkestan westernmost China and across the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. His greatest triumph involved => discovery of the world's oldest printed text the Diamond Sutra dating to A.D. 868 plus 40000 other scrolls. He received a knighthood for his efforts which extended over 30 years. The present account was based on his 190608 archaeological and geographical exploration carried out "under the orders of the Government of India" p. vii; the volumes are => illustrated with over 200 plates including color-printed reproductions of artwork folding maps and photographic images of Stein's travels. Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Publisher's dark red cloth front covers each with gilt-stamped classical vignette; vol. I with edges and extremities rubbed corners bumped minor mottling and spots of discoloration; vol. II similar with area of damage to upper outer fore-edge. Top edges gilt. Vol. I front hinge inside starting from foot and sewing loosening; inner margins of frontispiece and printed guard leaf reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape; one leaf with outer margin tattered and resulting short tear not touching text. Vol. II with back hinge inside cracked. Some text pages in both volumes showing pressure lines imprinted from plates. A respectable set of these hefty books somewhat weakened by their own size and by use "priced accordingly"; together a record of a significant expedition that offers => both visual and textual interest. Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
