Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ANDREWS, FREDERICK HENRY. Catalogue of Wall-Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia and Sistan recovered by Sir Aurel Stein. 5 plates; folding map. [2], xiii, [1], 201 pages * Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities recovered by Sir Aurel Stein . . . during his Explorations in Central Asia, Kansu and Eastern Iran. 2 plates; folding map. [2], x, 445 pages. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, 268x213 mm, later 1/2 leather, and 268x214 mm, later cloth; contents of both volumes clean. first editions. Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1933; 1935

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first editions of catalogues of paintings and objects taken by Stein during his 1906-08 and 1913-16 expeditions into Chinese Turkestan (see lots 239-241).