SCHILD, Romuald, and Fred WENDORF. The Prehistory of an Egyptian Oasis. A Report of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition to Bir Sahara, Western Desert, Egypt / Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf / ; with chapters by A. Gautier and B. Issawi and the contribut…

SCHILD, Romuald, and Fred WENDORF. The Prehistory of an Egyptian Oasis. A Report of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition to Bir Sahara, Western Desert, Egypt / Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf / ; with chapters by A. Gautier and B. Issawi and the contribut…SCHILD, Romuald, and Fred WENDORF. The Prehistory of an Egyptian Oasis. A Report of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition to Bir Sahara, Western Desert, Egypt Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf ; with chapters by A. Gautier and B. Issawi and the contributions of C. V. Haynes [et al.] Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1981. 4to. Original yellow cloth, illustrated and lettered in black, illustrated dust wrappers; pp. 155, 29 plates after drawings, each

SCHILD, Romuald, and Fred WENDORF. The Prehistory of an Egyptian Oasis. A Report of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition to Bir Sahara, Western Desert, Egypt / Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf / ; with chapters by A. Gautier and B. Issawi and the contributions of C.V. Haynes ... [et al.] Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences. 1981.

4to. Original yellow cloth, illustrated and lettered in black, illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 155, 29 plates after drawings, each printed on either side of a sheet, folding map, sketch maps and illustrations after photographs in the text; apart from minor rubbing to wrapper, a very good copy of a rare work.

Very rare first edition of this expedition and excavation report documenting the joint Polish-Egyptian 1973 campaign into the remote depressioans of Bir Sahara, in order to gain some understanding of the pre-history of Egypt. Bir Terfawi and Bir Sahara are among the oldest human-inhabited places in Africa.

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