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STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan. Frontispiece; numerous illustrations; folding map. xliii, [1], 524 pages. 8vo, 224x145 mm, original cloth, minor wear, slight soiling on spine; intermittent staining in upper outer corners of preliminaries, stain in upper portion of front pastedown, half-title, and several leaves in middle of volume, frontispiece, tissue guard, and folding map foxed, foxing on fore edges not visible internally. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903
first edition of a popular account of Stein's 1900-01 expedition, his first to Chinese Turkestan. "Stein's great achievement, during this and two subsequent expeditions . . . was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia . . . Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" (ODNB). Yakushi S328a.
