Hardcover
1888 · London
by Petrie, W.M. Flinders
London: Trubner & Co, 1888. Hardcover. G+; ; Covers showing past water damage. Front cover is bowed as a result. Binding is beginning to get brittle. Pages uncut and very clean. Half cloth with brown paperd boards. 44 pp., 12 bw plates, 116 pp., 51 bw plates. The fourth memoir of They Egypt Exploration Fund, founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards, an Egyptologist, and Reginald Stuart Poole, a professor of archaeology. First organized to co-ordinate archaeological explorations in the Nile Valley and delta,
it was supported by many leading clergymen looking for archaeological evidence of Biblical sites but became increasingly involved with the establishment of archaeology as a scientific discipline. It remains Britain's foremost Egyptological society. (paraphrased from the UCL Bloomsbury Project web site). (Inventory #: 141368)
it was supported by many leading clergymen looking for archaeological evidence of Biblical sites but became increasingly involved with the establishment of archaeology as a scientific discipline. It remains Britain's foremost Egyptological society. (paraphrased from the UCL Bloomsbury Project web site). (Inventory #: 141368)