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STEIN, Mark Aurel.

Mountain panoramas from the Pamirs and Kwen Lun.

Mountain panoramas from the Pamirs and Kwen Lun.

Stock Code 122134

London, Royal Geographical Society, 1908.

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Scarce early Stein item. The photographic panoramas are from the Kwen Lun range south of Khotan, and on the Pamirs were taken on Stein's expedition in Chinese Turkestan (1900/1901). This was Stein's first exploration of Central Asia and this work provides a mass of geographical detail on the region.

First edition; folio (34 x 22 cm); 23 panorama photos on 13 sheets, many with two views per page, one folding colour map; publisher's blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, ties lacking as often, a very good copy; x, 36 pp.

Yakushi S715.

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