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STEIN, Sir Aurel. Innermost Asia, Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-Su and Eastern Iran. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1928.
4 volumes, 2o and portfolio of maps. Half-titles, the text volumes containing numerous photographic plates, illustrations, and plans, some printed in color; portfolio containing 52 printed maps numbered 1-47 and A-D and an index map. Original rust cloth gilt (some light wear to the portfolio edges, some light rubbing or staining to covers). Provenance: C.T. Loo (inkstamp); Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller's ticket on pastedown).
A professor at universities in India from 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" (DNB). (4)
4 volumes, 2o and portfolio of maps. Half-titles, the text volumes containing numerous photographic plates, illustrations, and plans, some printed in color; portfolio containing 52 printed maps numbered 1-47 and A-D and an index map. Original rust cloth gilt (some light wear to the portfolio edges, some light rubbing or staining to covers). Provenance: C.T. Loo (inkstamp); Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller's ticket on pastedown).
A professor at universities in India from 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" (DNB). (4)
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