£1,260
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Detailed Report of Archaeological Explorations in Chinese Turkestan. Carried out and described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907. 2 volumes, 4to, recent half leather, pp. xxiv 621, vii, volume 1 containing 34 halftone photographic plates (images numbered 1-71), volume 2 with 118 plates (of 119: lacking plate 119, 'Judaeo-Persian document') including halftones and other media, many in colours, folding lithographic map in end-pocket, volume 1 text-leaves browned, edges slightly friable in places, a few concomitant chips, title-page with pen marks and effaced ink-stamp, leaf D1 loose, closed tears and repairs to plates 64-6, small worm-tracks appearing in text and lower margin from p. 500, volume 2 title-page chipped, crudely repaired in margin and with effaced ink-stamps, plates variably spotted and browned, with a few small worm-tracks up to plate 40, plates 107 with various chips, tears and repairs, folding map browned, friable and torn into sections
Note: A working copy only. Rare in commerce. The lot sold with a copy of Stein's Preliminary Report on a Journey of Archaeological and Topographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked and relined, 77 pp., 14 plates, browning, light worming, Indian library stamps to title-page).