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Sand-buried ruins of Khotan.

Personal narrative of a journey of archaeological and geographical exploration in Chinese Turkestan.

Stock Code 111913

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904

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The general narrative of Stein's first exploration of Central Asia, 1900-01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan and excavated the eponymous ruins.

New cheaper edition. 8vo, xl, 503 pp., frontispiece, large folding map (repair to verso), numerous photographic illustrations, original sienna pictorial cloth gilt, light fade to spine, old ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy.

Yakushi S713a.
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Provenance: Charles Thomas, label and inscription, shelf markings to endpapers.

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Sand-buried ruins of Khotan.

STEIN, Sir Marc Aurel.

Stock code: 111913

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