Author: SIR W.M. FLINDERS PETRIE F.R.S.
Title: The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.
Description: 1883, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse; Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Hamilton Adams & Co; New York, Scribner & Welford, 1883. 4to, xvi, 250p. Complete with frontispiece and 16 diagrammatic plates. Recent quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper label. Small library number on title and faint stamps throughout of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society [1841-1897]. See DNB:- Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1893- 1942. Egyptologist. He was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the UK and excavated many of the most important sites in Egypt. Rare. Very Good.

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