Stein (Marc Aurel . Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903, photogravure frontispiece, numerous illustrations from photographs, folding colour-printed map (one closed tear tape repair to fold verso), ex library with several oval ink stamps to lower margins including frontispiece recto and title verso and bookplate to front pastedown, inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed, white ink library classification number to spine, 8vo First edition of Stein's first expedition to Chinese Turkestan in 1900-01. '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).
Stein (Marc Aurel . Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903, photogravure frontispiece, numerous illustrations from photographs, folding colour-printed map (one closed tear tape repair to fold verso), ex library with several oval ink stamps to lower margins including frontispiece recto and title verso and bookplate to front pastedown, inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed, white ink library classification number to spine, 8vo First edition of Stein's first expedition to Chinese Turkestan in 1900-01. '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).
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