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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.
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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China... Edited and Introduced by Jeannette Mirsky
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ON ANCIENT CENTRAL-ASIAN TRACKS, BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THREE EXPEDITIONS IN INNERMOST ASIA AND NORTH-WESTERN CHINA
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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.
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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China
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London: Macmillan & Co Limited, 1933. xxiv, 336, 1 folding map at the back, 2 pp book adverts. Publisher's brown cloth gilt with embossed gilt decoration to front cover, top edge gilt, coloured frontispiece, title vignette, 147 illustrations of places, people, landscapes, buildings etc. Slight toning of eps, owner inscription of Oxford scholar D.Penny on ffep, corners bumped, a little rubbing of top and tail of spine, else very good. Many coloured plates with tissue guards illustrating the paintings from the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas at Tun Huang. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.
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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China
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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.
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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks.: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and Northern-Western China.
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1933. A pioneer in a vast new field of research First edition, first impression, in 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…
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