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MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1913)
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological & Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. 8° (225 x 145mm.). Half title, photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black, half tone illustrations, a few full-page, folding lithograped map printed in colours. (Map lightly spotted, stains at fold.) Original russet pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt. (Upper inner hinges cracked.) Modern slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. Cordier Sinica 2865; Yakushi S328a.
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological & Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. 8° (225 x 145mm.). Half title, photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black, half tone illustrations, a few full-page, folding lithograped map printed in colours. (Map lightly spotted, stains at fold.) Original russet pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt. (Upper inner hinges cracked.) Modern slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. Cordier Sinica 2865; Yakushi S328a.
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