Rome: La Libreria dello Stato, 1949. Limited edition: no. 456 of 750. Three volumes. Folios: xv, 327 pages; vii, 331-798 pages; 26 color and 230 monochrome phototype plates. Very good-. Bound in original rust cloth with gilt tooling to front boards and spines. Plates housed in folio case. Bindings sunned; Fraying and splits to cloth at corners of boards and at joints; Bindings with light+ marking. Text block and plates lightly age toned; Title page for plate volume with minor creasing at corners. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Haarlem: Bohn, 1900. Folio: 95 loose pages + 20 black and white plates. Very good-. Housed in grey folio case with paper label to front board. Case lightly shelf worn; original wraps included in case are lightly shelf-worn; First two leaves with closed tears to margins; Text and plates moderately age-toned and foxed. Text in Dutch. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Tokyo: Bukkyo-Shiseki Kenkyu-Kwai, 1926-1930. Two volumes only: "Text Part I" and Text Part II." Octavos : v, 6, 100, 5, [2] pages; 5, 142, 5, [2] pages + 2 folding plates. Very good. Bound in contemporary blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Bindings with light shelf wear; Text blocks age-toned and slightly foxed. SH consignment. More

London: Oxford University Press, 1948. First edition. Text volume (Vol. 1) only. Folio: xxxiv, 128 pages + 4 black and white plates, one of which is folding. Good+. Quarter-bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and blue paper-covered boards. Light+ bumping and rubbing to edges and corners of boards; hinges cracked; text block very lightly age-toned. Price stamp to rear paste down. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Berlin: Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., 1924. First edition. Limited edition: no. 188 of 400. Folio: 448, 113 pages. Fair. Bound in yellow cloth, sunned to tan, with green label to spine. Joints largely split; Damp staining to fore edges of both boards; Fraying to edges of boards and head and tail of spine; Corners bumped. Hinges split; First two leaves and final three leaves loose but present; Text block slightly age-toned. Text in German. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Paris: Vanoest, 1949. Annales du Musee Guimet: Bibliotheque d'Art. Nouvelle Serie: V. Quarto: 270 pages + 5 maps and 88 plates. Fair. Bound in original tan paper wraps with dark green titling to spine and front wrap. Spine wrapped in clear packing tape; Wraps age-toned with moderate shelf wear. Text block with light+ age-toning generally; Moderate age-toning and foxing to front free endpaper and final page of text. Text in French. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1961. First edition. Two volumes: Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique Francaise in Afghanistan Tome XVII. Quartos: 260 pages + folding table; 13 pages + 140 figures (1 folding) and 45 black and white photographic plates. Very good-. Bound in tan paper wraps with black lettering to front wraps and spines. Edges and corners lightly shelf-worn; Hinges with light+ wear; Text blocks lightly age-toned. Text in French. SH consignment. More

Petrograd: Russian Geographical Society, 1919. Quarto: x, 472 pages. Very good. Rebound in full green cloth with brown leather label to spine. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped; Text block age-toned with light bumping to edges; Deckled edges. Text in Russian with numerous in-text illustrations. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Paris: Libraire Paul Geuthner, 1920-1924. Four volumes. Mission Pelliot en Asie Centrale, Very good. Housed in cream cloth slip cases with paper labels to front boards and spine. Tome Premier: Grottes 1 a 30. Complete with 64 black and white photographic plates and one general plan of Dunhuang site. Tome Quatrieme: Grottes 111 a 120 n. Black and white photographic plates 193-256, with tissue protectors, title page, and table of contents. Tome Cinquieme: Grottes 120 n a 146. Black and white photographic plates 257-320, with tissue protectors, title page, and table of contents. Tome Sixieme: Grottes 146 a 182 et Divers. Black and white photographic plates 321-376 (Plate 337 was never printed, as noted in table of contents), with title page and table of contents. Bindings lightly bumped; labels age-toned. Plates and text leaves slightly age-toned with scattered foxing; Lightly bumped at edges and corners. Text in French. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Paris: Libraire Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1961-1967. First edition. Three volumes. Quartos. Documents Archéologiques Publies sous les Auspices de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. I: Toumchouq: Planches (4 pages + 154 plates and 12 maps, 3 of which are folding); II. Toumchouq [text] (xxxiii, 450 pages, 13 plates + "Table des Dessins et Illustrations" in rear pocket); III. Douldour-Aqour et Soubachi: Planches (17 pages, 124 plates, 11 maps, 7 of which are folding, 8 leaves of drawings, 3 of which are folding, and 5 additional drawings in a rear pocket). Very good+. Bound in original tan cloth binding with red titling to spines. Corners, heads, and tails of spines lightly bumped; Text blocks age-toned; Light bumping to fore edge of vol. III. Text in French. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975. Reprint edition. Folio: xxiv, 621, vii, cxix plates + folding map. Very good. Bound in red cloth with gilt titling to spine. Corners of binding with light+ bumping. Upper fore edge corner of text block lightly bumped; Half title creased. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House, 1994. First edition, first printing. Folio: 387 pages. Good. Pictorial dust jacket with green and navy panels to spine, gold and yellow lettering. House in pictorial slip case with red cloth top and bottom panels, lightly bumped and shelf-worn at edges and corners. Dust jacket lightly bumped and worn at corners; Boards lightly bumped at lower corners; Front hinge split, rear hinge cracking; Text block beginning to show light age-toning. Text in English, Chinese, and Tibetan. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Paris: Les Editions d'Art et Histoire, 1936. Folio: 38 pages + 22 black and white photographic plates. Very good-. Bound in original grey wraps with black lettering to spine. Wraps with light+ shelf wear and marking. Text block age toned with very minor pest damage to lower edge of page introducing plates and to rear free endpaper. Text in French. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Kyoto: Kyoto University, 1962. Folio: xvii, 107, x, 48 plates, 13 plates (4 folding). Very good. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine and front board; Minor shelf wear to boards; Text block age-toned with scattered pencil annotations to margins. Text in Japanese and English. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Lahore: Nisar Art Press, 1968. Folio: 476 pages. Very good/Very good-. Green illustrated dust jacket, yellow and blue design to spine. Dust jacket with light+ fading and light shelf wear. Light shelf wear to head and tail of spine; Cracking to front hinge; Text block age-toned. With 37 tipped-in color plates, 25 black and white plates. Numerous calligraphic and ornamental illustrations, many in color; Text in Urdu and English. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

Stockholm: Tryckeri Aktiebolaget Thule, 1943-1958. Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. The Sino-Swedish Expedition. Publication 21. Quarto: 100 pages of text, 97 pages of sheet music + folding map and 8 black and white photographic plates. Bound in tan cloth with brown leather labels to spines. Very good. Corners with light+ bumping and light fraying; text blocks lightly age-toned. Original wraps bound in. Includes color frontispiece. SH consignment. More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. First edition, first printing. Quarto: xv, 33, [6] pages + 1 map and 45 black and white photographic illustrations. Very good-. Quarter bound in orange cloth with orange paper boards; Paper labels to spine and front board. Minor bumping and fraying to head and tail of spine, corners of boards; Light marking and shelf-wear; Text block age-toned. SH consignment. More

Booksurge, 2009. Octavo: xxii, 689 + 2 maps. Very good+. Yellow wraps with maroon lettering. Spine creased; corners of wraps lightly bumped. Text block clean. SH consignment. More

Taipei: Literature House, 1962. Second edition. Two volumes. Reprint of original 1898 edition. Octavos: xii, 500, 501-1022 pages. Very good+. Housed in blue cloth slipcase paper label to spine and with fasteners; slip case lightly shelf-worn with some discoloration and slight fraying at corners. Volumes bound in blue cloth-covered soft wraps with stab binding; fukurotoji-style text block. Wraps with minor staining and fraying; Text block slightly age-toned. US distributor's label affixed to title page; one loose and one loosening, but with yellowed adhesive stain remaining. SH consignment. More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954-1980. Nine volumes. Octavos. Volume 1: Introductory Orientations (xxxviii, 318 pages + 2 folding maps); Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought (xxii, [2], 696 pages); Volume 3: mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth (xlvii, 877 pages); Volume 4, Part I: Physics and Physical Technology: Physics (xxxiv, 434 pages); Volume 4, Part II: Physics and Physical Technology: Mechanical Engineering (lv, 759 pages); Volume 4, Part III: Physics and Physical Technology: Civil Engineering and Nautics (lvii, 931 pages + 3 folding maps); Volume 5, Part II: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality (xxxii, 510 pages); Volume 5, Part III: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin (xxxv, 481 pages); Volume 5, Part IV: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts (xlviii, 772 pages). Very good/Good to Very good-. All volumes in matching dust jackets with off-white spines and black lettering. Dust jackets in varying condition, good to very good-; All shelf-worn, lightly marked, and lightly age-toned with prices clipped; several with tears to edges. Bindings lightly shelf-worn; Text blocks lightly age-toned. Please see photographs for further details of condition. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. More

London: Henry Southeran & Co., 1882. Octavo: ix, [7], 379 pages. Fair. Bound in original red cloth with gold titling and tooling to spine and front board. Original cloth frayed at spine and corners of boards; Later repairs to cloth at head and tail of spine; Spine lightly sunned; Binding with several small stains; Bookplate to front pastedown; Hinges repaired with tape, but repair is cracking. Half title has torn away and been reattached; Color frontispiece detached but present; Subsequent three leaves attached but brittle and beginning to tear away; Final two leaves of preface and table of contents loose but present; Text block age-toned and brittle. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black and white with some color examples. SH consignment. More