SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943)
SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943) Innermost Asia, Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-Su and Easter Iran . Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1928. 3 volumes, 2° (330 x 255 mm) and portfolio of maps (335 x 430mm). Half-titles, the text volumes containing 505 photographic illustrations, 138 plates (nos. 1-137, including 99a), some printed in colour, 59 plans, the portfolio containing 51 printed maps, numbered 1-47 and A-D, and an additional 11 triangulation charts of Chinese Turkistan, and 1 large folding plate of a section drawing of a lake bed, not called for in accompanying list of maps inside portfolio. (Slight wear to edges of maps.) Original red/brown cloth blocked in gilt. Provenance : 'Oxford Book & Stationery Co. Dehli' (stamps to flyleaves). A professor at universities in India since 1887, the Hungarian-born explorer and archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein made the first of his three expeditions to Chinese Turkestan in 1900, inspired by the explorations of Sven Hedin Financed by the Indian Government, Stein established the existence of a lost civilzation along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia, being the first archaeologist to 'discover evidence of the Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself' (ODNB). BMC, Vol. 24 (272).
SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943)
SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943) Innermost Asia, Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-Su and Easter Iran . Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1928. 3 volumes, 2° (330 x 255 mm) and portfolio of maps (335 x 430mm). Half-titles, the text volumes containing 505 photographic illustrations, 138 plates (nos. 1-137, including 99a), some printed in colour, 59 plans, the portfolio containing 51 printed maps, numbered 1-47 and A-D, and an additional 11 triangulation charts of Chinese Turkistan, and 1 large folding plate of a section drawing of a lake bed, not called for in accompanying list of maps inside portfolio. (Slight wear to edges of maps.) Original red/brown cloth blocked in gilt. Provenance : 'Oxford Book & Stationery Co. Dehli' (stamps to flyleaves). A professor at universities in India since 1887, the Hungarian-born explorer and archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein made the first of his three expeditions to Chinese Turkestan in 1900, inspired by the explorations of Sven Hedin Financed by the Indian Government, Stein established the existence of a lost civilzation along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia, being the first archaeologist to 'discover evidence of the Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself' (ODNB). BMC, Vol. 24 (272).
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