Search Results: on ancient central asian tracks brief narrative by stein sir aurel

New York: Pantheon Books, 1964 F/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed, with trifling tears in corners); pp. xxii, 292 (last blank), with 8 illustrations & a map. A near fine copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. F/VG.

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 & Co, 1933 8vo. original brown cloth gilt, teg, others uncut (occ. spots in text, else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxiv, 342 + [2 (original pub. advts, last colophon], with colour frontispiece,147 illustrations (inc. panoramas] & a colour folding map. Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. An excellent copy, about fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

London: 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… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1933. A pioneer in a vast new field of research First edition, first impression, with the scarce jacket. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks details the findings of Stein's first three Central Asian expeditions and research undertaken between 1900 and 1916. This is an especially fresh copy of a work produced in the handsome style common to Stein's monographs. The work originated as a series of lectures given at Harvard University in December 1929. "The First Expedition had proved Stein to be as brilliantly effective a fieldworker as the Rajatarangini showed him to be a scholarly Orientalist - a pioneer in a vast new field of research; the Second, extending his investigations to Tun-Huang and the Aksai Chin, made him a hero and brought him knighthood; the Third, extending his field of operations still further – into Mongolia on the east and Iran on the west – gave substance to his role as 'Archaeological Explorer'" (Mirsky, p. 461). Octavo. Original reddish-brown… Read More