Tanis. Part I, 1883-4. Second Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund; Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (AM) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes). Fourth Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund. 1886

London: Messrs. Trübner & Co, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio [32 cm] 1/4 black cloth with printed tan paper over boards. Wear to the spine and boards. The cloth spine of the second book is torn, with small losses from the spine ends. The second part has a couple of markings on the front cover and a previous owner's brief inscription in small pen on the front free endpaper. The pages are very occasionally uncut. The text blocks are sturdy. Part I: Frontispiece; 16 plates; 2 folding plates. Part II: 12 plates; 51 plates. Plate XXV comes after Plate XXVI. May require extra postage due to size and weight. British archaeologist and Egyptologist Sir William Matthews Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) made significant contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. Petrie lived in a tent and a basic house at the Tanis site from February 4 until June 23rd, 1884 in relative isolation. While excavating the Temple of Tanis, Petrie discovered fragments of a mammoth statue of Ramses II. He was knighted in 1923.