Lot 1207
  • 1207

Stein, Aurel

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Stein, Aurel
  • Memoir on maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the surveys made during Sir Aurel Stein's explorations 1900-1, 1906-8, 1913-5. Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, 1923
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FIRST EDITION, folio (335 x 213mm.), xv, correction slip tipped-in, 208pp., 77 photographic illustrations (half-tones and photogravures) on 30 plates (including photogravure frontispiece), original green cloth-backed printed grey boards, printed label on the spine, waterstain to frontispiece and upper cover

Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from surveys made during the explorations of Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.I.E., 1900-01, 1906-08, 1913-15 [title taken from box flap], 60 folding maps (index map, maps numbered 1-47, triangulation charts numbered 1-11, and levelling chart), original green cloth-backed grey box with the printed paper label on the spine, minor wear to box



Together 2 volumes

Provenance

Anders Bolinder (1924-1987), book label, Swedish mountaineer and writer

Literature

Yakushi (1994) S719

Condition

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