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ON ANCIENT CENTRAL-ASIAN TRACKS, BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THREE EXPEDITIONS IN INNERMOST ASIA AND NORTH-WESTERN CHINA, Macmillan, 1933, first edition, t.p.e.'s gold gilt, light wear to fore edge corner tips, a bit more so to the spine extremities which reveal several short closed tears, else a near vg copy with near fine contents replete with all photos, illustrations, color plates and fold-outs called for.

London, Macmillan, 1933. . First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 342, 2(ads)pp., 147 illustrations including some in colour, folding map, top edge gilt others uncut, original tan cloth gilt, gilt medallion to upper cover, short split head of spine, a very good copy. A comprehensive summary of the results of Stein's first three Central Asian expeditions and of his researches carried out during the years 1900-16. Yakushi S723a.

xxiv, 342, [2] pp.First edition of the account of the three very important explorations by the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein’s (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… Read More