Stein (Sir Aurel)

Innermost Asia.

Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Iran.

4 vol., first edition, limited to 500 copies, vol. 1-3 illustrated throughout with 201 photographic plates, 59 plans and 44 plans of sketches, vol. 4 (map box) 215 plates and 52 folding maps, original russet cloth, title-page with perforation library stamp, small ink library stamps to verso of two maps in map box, library numbers carefully removed from spines, otherwise a very good clean copy, 4to., Oxford: Clarendon Press,1928.

*** Stein, a Hungarian-born explorer was financed by the Indian government and inspired by the earlier discoveries of Sven Hedin. He established the existence of a lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia.