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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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On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and North-western China.
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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.
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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, 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…
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