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Inscribed, Early Work by Aurel Stein

Stein, Aurél M.

A fehér hunok és rokon törzsek indiai szereplése. [White Huns and Kindred Tribes In the History of the Indian North-West Frontier.]

Budapest: Franklin-Társulat nyomdája, 1897. First separate edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle, Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. 27, (1) p. Artistically restored. In very good condition.

Stein’s inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in August 1897, inscribed to his cousin, in the Upper Bavarian spa town Bad Reichenhall.

Stein was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1895 while he was working at the Punjab University in Lahore, thus he held his inaugural lecture only two years later, on his visit to Europe. It has been published subsequently in “Budapesti Szemle” and also as an offprint. The English translation only appeared in 1905 in the “Indian Antiquary” (Bombay, Bombay Education Society's Press).

Sir Marc Aurél Stein (1862–1943) was a Hungarian born British archaeologist, mainly concerned with exploring ancient Central Asia. Member of “The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire” as Knight Commander (KCIE), and Fellow of British Academy. He made four major expeditions to Central Asia in 1900, 1906–1908, 1913–1916 and 1930. His greatest discovery was made at Mogao Caves, also known as “Caves of the Thousand Buddhas”, near Dunhuang in 1907. The Stein collection (mostly manuscripts and other relics) has been placed in the British Library, the British Museum, and partly to the Srinagar Museum and the National Museum in New Delhi.

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