Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China.
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1912.
Price: $1,600.00
About the item
First edition. 3 folding colored maps, 8 colored plates (each with a printed tissue guard), 339 photographic illustrations on 212 plates (6 folding panoramas). xxxviii, 546, [2]; xxii, 518, [2] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's russet cloth, upper cover with embossed design in gilt, minor darkening to spines and very light wear. Custom slipcase. Provenance: Edward W. Bodman (bookplate). Ghani p.694; Yakushi (1994) S716.
Item #346470
The classic account of Stein's 1906-08 second expedition to Chinese Central Asia, incuding his discovery of the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas" near Dunhuang.
