Rutgers, Date: 1970-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1970. Rutgers ISBN 0813506271 9780813506272 [US]

New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press 1970 Reprint. Fourth printing [stated] of this edition Hardcover Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. DJ taped to boards. Text in English, French. xxx, 687, [1] p. Maps. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "Rene Grousset (September 5, 1885 September 12, 1952) was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française. He wrote several major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations, with his two most important works being History of the Crusades (1934-1936) and The Empire of the Steppes, a History of Central Asia (1939), both of which were considered standard references on the subject. Grousset was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885. Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history, he began his distinguished career soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925, Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris and secretary of the Journal asiatique. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations. In 1933 he was appointed director of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and curator of its Asiatic art collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Xuanzang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian Buddhist university of Nalanda. Before the outbreak of World War II, Grousset ...

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Date: 1970. Reprint. Fourth printing [stated] of this edition. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. DJ taped to boards.. Text in English, French. xxx, 687, [1] p. Maps. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "Rene Grousset (September 5, 1885 September 12, 1952) was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française. He wrote several major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations, with his two most important works being History of the Crusades (1934-1936) and The Empire of the Steppes, a History of Central Asia (1939), both of which were considered standard references on the subject. Grousset was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885. Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history, he began his distinguished career soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925, Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris and secretary of the Journal asiatique. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations. In 1933 he was appointed director of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and curator of its Asiatic art collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Xuanzang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian Buddhist university of Nalanda. Before the outbreak ...

ISBN10: 0813506271, ISBN13: 9780813506272, [publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brusnwick, NJ] Hardcover First Edition First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in brown cloth w/gold spine titles and logo. About Fine book in Very Good unclipped creased DJ w/minor chips and soiled rear panel, now in clear protective cover. Rear endpapers upside-down, else book Fine and unmarked. xi, 687pp inc. Notes, Index; illustrated in maps, map endpapers. Uncommon in First Printing. 687 p.
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