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STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. Plates, including 8 in color and 6 folding panoramas; 3 folding maps. 546, [2]; xxi, [1], 517, [3] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 235x165 mm, first volume in later cloth, with front hinge split, second in worn original cloth, with split between half-title and frontispiece; clean tears in first folding map crudely repaired with tape on verso, contents otherwise generally clean. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1912
first edition of a popular account of the 1906-08 expedition, during which Stein discovered an unparallelled trove of Buddhist art and antiquities in the caves of Dunhuang. His most notable find was the Chinese block-printed scroll of the Diamond Sutra dated 868 A.D., the oldest extant printed book. Yakushi S331.
