Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. Memoir on Maps illustrating the Ancient Geography of Kas[h]mir. 2, [2], 232 pages. With 2 linen-backed folding maps in board sleeve. 224x157 mm, 20th-century 1/2 leather, original wrappers bound in; small wormhole in upper margin throughout affecting some headlines, marginal repairs on wrappers and first and last leaves, numerous small wormholes through rear wrapper, maps heavily wormed (before being mounted on linen) with varying image and text loss. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press for the Asiatic Society, 1899

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first edition of a study undertaken by Stein in connection with his work on Kalhana. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 68, Part 1, Extra-Number 2. Yakushi S326.