Watch List notes:

W.M. Flinders Petrie. Set of Eight Volumes on Egyptian Artifacts. (Aris & Phillips [UK] and Joel Malter [US], 1972-1974). All reprints of editions originally published in the 1920s. Includes: Objects of Everyday Use, Amulets, Buttons and Design Scarabs, Glass Stamps and Weights / Ancient Weights and Measures, Tools and Weapons, Shabtis, Scarabs and Cylinders, and Illahun, Kahun and Gurob (excavation report). All are essential volumes for the study of Egyptian artifacts, including thousands of illustrations, both line drawings and photographs, with concise descriptions placing them in historical context. EIGHT VOLUMES IN SET. Fine condition. All hardbound with dust jackets in distinct hues, forming an attractive set. Average Fine condition, some As New, a couple with minor edge tears and fading on the dust jackets.


From the Collection of a Connoisseur.

Flinders Petrie was perhaps the greatest of all British Egyptologists, the man who mentored Howard Carter and many other greats of archaeology.