I have here for sale a book entitled BURIED TREASURES OF CHINESE TURKESTAN An Account of the Activities and Adventures of the Second and Third German Turfan Expedition by Albert von le Coq, translated by Anna Barwell.  It is a first edition published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London in 1928.  It has 52 b/w photographic plates.  

Von Le Coq was a Prussian/German brewery owner and wine merchant, who at the age of 40 began to study archaeology.  He was associated with the Museum für Völkerkunde (now called the Ethnological Museum of Berlin) in Berlin. Serving as assistant to the head of the museum, Professor Albert Grünwedel, Le Coq helped plan and organize expeditions into the regions of western Asia, specifically areas near the Silk Road such as Gaochang. When Grünwedel fell ill before the departure of the second expedition, Le Coq was assigned to lead it. His account of the second and third German Turpan expeditions was published in English in 1928 as Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan.

Navy hardboards with re-backed spine in similar colour cloth and the original spine reattached over the top.  Gilt title lettering.  Chips to the cloth on the spine and slight wear to board edges.  Boards firm.  Pages slightly sunned but clean and tightly bound throughout.  180 pages, 24 x 16 cm.

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