An estimate of £120-150 was never going to do for a lot in a Leominster sale of March 28 that was catalogued, in full, as “STEIN, Sir Aurel, Serindia, a Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost, four vols, and a box with maps (5)”.
It sold instead at £6200.
China was the word missing from the title of the copy offered by Brightwells (22% buyer’s premium), Serindia being a regional name then applied to those parts of Asia that lay between the Pamirs and the Pacific.