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STEIN, Aurel. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions In Innermost Asia and North-Western China. With Numerous Illustrations, Colour Plates, Panoramas And Map From Original Surveys.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. Tall 8vo., original rust cloth with a small gilt medallion decoration on the upper board, xxiv, 342, (2)pp. ads. With numerous illustrations and a folding map at the rear. Short gift inscription on the front free endpaper, one inch scratch/tear (no loss) on the spine, some light rubbing but o/w a near fine copy.
The Hungarian-British archaeologist, Aurel Stein made four major expeditions to Central Asia—in 1900–1901, 1906–1908, 1913–1916 and 1930. In this volume, Stein provides a summary of three of these expeditions, covering the period 1906-16. In the preface he states that ‘it is based on the lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston' and as such, it is organized into twenty-one chapters organized geographically rather than chronologically. As one contemporary reviewer noted, ‘Who but the author himself could give an adequate picture of the general results of his travels as to represent in due perspective the more important, and the less important, facts and to join the thread whenever it was interrupted by the accidents of seasons and campaigns?' (Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies. 1934. pp. 448-9).
STEIN, Aurel. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions In Innermost Asia and North-Western China. With Numerous Illustrations, Colour Plates, Panoramas And Map From Original Surveys. London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. Tall 8vo., original rust cloth with a small gilt medallion decoration on the upper board, xxiv, 342, (2)pp. ads. With numerous illustrations and a folding map at the rear. Short gift inscription on the front free endpaper, one inch scratch/tear (no loss) on the spine, some light rubbing but o/w a near fine copy.
The Hungarian-British archaeologist, Aurel Stein made four major expeditions to Central Asia—in 1900–1901, 1906–1908, 1913–1916 and 1930. In this volume, Stein provides a summary of three of these expeditions, covering the period 1906-16. In the preface he states that ‘it is based on the lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston' and as such, it is organized into twenty-one chapters organized geographically rather than chronologically. As one contemporary reviewer noted, ‘Who but the author himself could give an adequate picture of the general results of his travels as to represent in due perspective the more important, and the less important, facts and to join the thread whenever it was interrupted by the accidents of seasons and campaigns?' (Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies. 1934. pp. 448-9).
