Fakhry, Ryckmans, Archaeological journey to Yemen, 3 parties.

Condition : good, top spine end and rear joint slightly rubbed, title page three small tears at inner margin, at inner margins minor holes of original paperback binding.
Binding : half leather.
Illustrations : 107 illustrations in the text and 92 plates in black and white.

First edition.  Limited to 500 copies. The first part in English, the second part in French.

Ahmed Fakhry (1905 - 1973), curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Cairo, visited in May 1947 the main pre-Islamic
pre-Islamic sites in Yemen. He brought back from this trip an extensive
and epigraphic documentation. It is important to
to note that Fakhry was the first professional archaeologist
archaeologist who had the opportunity to carry out research in Yemen
to carry out research in Yemen in accordance with the requirements of the
and to photograph a significant number of monuments and
monuments and inscriptions. These surveys and photographs
These surveys and photographs clarify and complement the observations of the
and complement the observations of the few travellers who have been able to penetrate these regions.
The three volumes of "An archeological journey to Yemen" provide the archaeological and epigraphic results of this 1947 trip. Thanks to the two enlightened kings who shared Arabia, divided into the Kingdom of Saudi and the Kingdom of Yemen, this immense territory was widely open to archaeological work.