Ruins of desert Cathay: personal narrative of explorations in central Asia and westernmost China

by Marc Aurel Stein, Sir

$1,100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Macmillan & Co., 1912. First edition, 2 volumes, thick 8vo, portrait of the author, 8 color plates, 6 folding panoramas, 3 large folding maps, and 333 illus. on 219 plates; original terra cotta cloth, covers decorated in gilt, spines lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed, one small crack at the top of the spine of volume I; all else very good and sound. The large folding map at the back of volume II is loose but present and is laid down and with old

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