Archaeological reconnaissances in north-western India and south-eastern Iran carried out and recorded with the support of Harvard University and the British Museum by Sir Aurel Stein ... Antiques examined and described with the assistance of Fred. H. Andrews and analysed in an appendix by R. L. Hobson. With illustrations, plates of antiques, plans and maps from original surveys.

London, Macmillan, 1937.

Folio, pp. xix, [1], 267, [1 blank]; illustrated with 18 sketch plans, 2 skeleton maps (1 folding), 2 folding maps (in pocket at end), 88 photographic illustrations on plates, and XXXIV plates (some colour); an excellent, clean and crisp copy in original red cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt with central gilt medallion, gilt-lettered spine; a few very light marks; blind embossed stamp of ‘Leicester Municipal Libraries’ to top right corner of several pages and plates, gilt shelf mark at foot of spine.

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Archaeological reconnaissances in north-western India and south-eastern Iran carried out and recorded with the support of Harvard University and the British Museum by Sir Aurel Stein ... Antiques examined and described with the assistance of Fred. H. Andrews and analysed in an appendix by R. L. Hobson. With illustrations, plates of antiques, plans and maps from original surveys.

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First edition, a handsome copy. Having won fame for his expeditions to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan, Stein turned his attention in the early 1930s ‘to Persia and, with the initial backing of his American friends at Harvard, began a series of four expeditions there, or “archaeological reconnaissances”, as he called them (1932-6) ... covering vast distances, he made rapid examinations sufficient to identify prehistoric sites over wide areas ... his groundwork underpinned the researches of future generations of archaeologists in Iran’ (ODNB).

Yakushi S339.

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