Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $550
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1. The Survey of Western Palestine, Jerusalem by Charles Warren and Claude Reignier Conder. Published for the committee of the "Palestine Exploration Fund", London, 1884. English.
A detailed report of the survey conducted by Charles Warren, and Claude Reignier Conder of the Palestine Exploration Fund, in Jerusalem. Accompanied by illustrations, maps and plans.
A copy from a special edition printed in a limited number of copies. A paper label with the number of the copy (63) signed by hand by James Glaisher, chairman of the executive board of PEF, is pasted to the inner side of the front binding.
VII, 542 pp + [11] plates, 28 cm. Good overall condition. Stains (numerous stains to title page). Margins of some of the leaves are slightly trimmed. Binding damaged and loose, with tears to spine.
2. Map of Western Palestine from surveys conducted for the Committee of Palestine Exploration Fund by Lieuts. C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener… Special edition illustrating the natural drainage. Printed for the Committee of the "Palestine Exploration Fund", London, 1884.
93X169 cm (divided into 30 separate parts), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Inserted in the original cardboard slipcase. Good condition. Slight stains and defects. Tears and defects to case.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
A detailed report of the survey conducted by Charles Warren, and Claude Reignier Conder of the Palestine Exploration Fund, in Jerusalem. Accompanied by illustrations, maps and plans.
A copy from a special edition printed in a limited number of copies. A paper label with the number of the copy (63) signed by hand by James Glaisher, chairman of the executive board of PEF, is pasted to the inner side of the front binding.
VII, 542 pp + [11] plates, 28 cm. Good overall condition. Stains (numerous stains to title page). Margins of some of the leaves are slightly trimmed. Binding damaged and loose, with tears to spine.
2. Map of Western Palestine from surveys conducted for the Committee of Palestine Exploration Fund by Lieuts. C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener… Special edition illustrating the natural drainage. Printed for the Committee of the "Palestine Exploration Fund", London, 1884.
93X169 cm (divided into 30 separate parts), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Inserted in the original cardboard slipcase. Good condition. Slight stains and defects. Tears and defects to case.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Category
The Hermann M. Z. Meyer Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Two large maps of Palestine, with biblical and New Testament landmarks. Special edition of the map of the Palestine Exploration Fund (a map consisting of 26 parts first published in 1880). London, 1882. English.
1. Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund... Special Edition Illustrating the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and Josephus. Printed for the committee of "Palestine Exploration Fund". London, 1882.
Approx. 94X159 cm (divided into 30 separate sections), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Good overall condition. Slight stains and defects. Small tears at upper margins. Erased inscription on one of the top corners (affecting paper).
2. Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund... Special Edition Illustrating the New Testament, also The Talmud and Josephus. Printed for the committee of the "Palestine Exploration Fund". London, 1882.
Approx. 159X94 cm (divided into 30 separate sections), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Good overall condition. Slight stains and defects.
The two maps are placed together in a cardboard slipcase (slightly damaged).
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
1. Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund... Special Edition Illustrating the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and Josephus. Printed for the committee of "Palestine Exploration Fund". London, 1882.
Approx. 94X159 cm (divided into 30 separate sections), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Good overall condition. Slight stains and defects. Small tears at upper margins. Erased inscription on one of the top corners (affecting paper).
2. Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund... Special Edition Illustrating the New Testament, also The Talmud and Josephus. Printed for the committee of the "Palestine Exploration Fund". London, 1882.
Approx. 159X94 cm (divided into 30 separate sections), linen-backed and folded into a booklet. Good overall condition. Slight stains and defects.
The two maps are placed together in a cardboard slipcase (slightly damaged).
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Category
The Hermann M. Z. Meyer Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Private album prepared by a soldier in the Royal Engineers of the British army, with 41 photographs of Jerusalem and essays related to the work of the "Palestine Exploration Fund". [England, ca. 1865].
Album bound as a book, in red leather binding, gilt stamped. On the front cover - the title "Jerusalem 1865". On the front endpaper appears a handwritten dedication (in English) from a soldier in the British Royal Engineers (P. McIntosh). It is possible that the album was prepared by a member of the British engineering team that arrived in Palestine in 1864, with engineer Charles William Wilson, to take care of the sanitary problems in Jerusalem.
The album contains:
* Two printed essays related to the "Jerusalem Survey" and to the British work around Jerusalem (bound in the beginning of the album): Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, February 16, 1866. Summary of speech by Colonel Henry James on the subject of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem; Report on the Levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea by Colonel Henry James.
* 41 photographs of Jerusalem, taken for the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem of Charles William Wilson.
Among the photographs: photographs of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, Hinnom Valley, Tomb of Absalom and Tomb of Zechariah, Pool of Bethesda, Robinson Arch, and more. The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves.
Apparently these photographs were taken by James McDonald, photographer of Wilson's survey of Palestine. Some of the photographs appeared in the book "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" which was published in 1865 and summed up the work of Wilson in Jerusalem, and some were probably not printed in the book.
[27] leaves. Photographs: approx. 7X10 cm, album: 21 cm. Good overall condition. Stains to all of the leaves (photographs are in good condition). Binding rubbed and defected.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Album bound as a book, in red leather binding, gilt stamped. On the front cover - the title "Jerusalem 1865". On the front endpaper appears a handwritten dedication (in English) from a soldier in the British Royal Engineers (P. McIntosh). It is possible that the album was prepared by a member of the British engineering team that arrived in Palestine in 1864, with engineer Charles William Wilson, to take care of the sanitary problems in Jerusalem.
The album contains:
* Two printed essays related to the "Jerusalem Survey" and to the British work around Jerusalem (bound in the beginning of the album): Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, February 16, 1866. Summary of speech by Colonel Henry James on the subject of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem; Report on the Levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea by Colonel Henry James.
* 41 photographs of Jerusalem, taken for the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem of Charles William Wilson.
Among the photographs: photographs of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, Hinnom Valley, Tomb of Absalom and Tomb of Zechariah, Pool of Bethesda, Robinson Arch, and more. The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves.
Apparently these photographs were taken by James McDonald, photographer of Wilson's survey of Palestine. Some of the photographs appeared in the book "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" which was published in 1865 and summed up the work of Wilson in Jerusalem, and some were probably not printed in the book.
[27] leaves. Photographs: approx. 7X10 cm, album: 21 cm. Good overall condition. Stains to all of the leaves (photographs are in good condition). Binding rubbed and defected.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Category
The Hermann M. Z. Meyer Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Postcard with a letter handwritten and signed by French archeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, to the British engineer and archeologist Charles Wilson. Paris, 1893. French.
In his letter Clermont-Ganneau responds to an essay by Wilson on the Jordan River.
The French orientalist and archeologist Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923) was one of the prominent scholars of Palestine in the 19th century. Clermont-Ganneau arrived in Palestine in 1867 and worked as a translator at the French consulate in Jerusalem. During his stay in Jerusalem he studied and researched the archeological sites of Palestine, and with time gained a reputation as one of the important scholars of Biblical archeology in the country (among other things, for his contribution to the identification, research and restoration of the Mesha Stele). In the years 1873-1874 he headed the British archeological delegation to Palestine on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, discovering the first three (out of thirteen) Gezer perimeter inscriptions (inscriptions carved into stone surfaces surrounding Tel Gezer). Later he took part in archeological excavations in Syria and the Red Sea, and in the years 1880-1882 served as the vice-consul in Jaffa. After completing his consular role he returned to Paris, where he studied Eastern languages.
The addressee, Charles Wilson (1836-1905) was a pioneer of modern Palestine studies and one of the leaders of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Wilson arrived in Palestine in 1863 at the head of a British team of engineers whose role it was to consult the Ottoman authorities regarding the improvement of sanitary conditions in Jerusalem. Wilson's first mission was the mapping of Jerusalem, following which he published a map that is considered the first modern map of Jerusalem. Later he was involved in mapping the area east of Mount Lebanon on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and took part in the survey of Sinai and in the research and preparation of a comprehensive, detailed map of Palestine (a project titled "From Dan to Beersheba" that produced 26 map sheets, accompanied by research volumes. Wilson edited the volumes on Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee).
14X9 cm. Good condition. Creases and light stains.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
In his letter Clermont-Ganneau responds to an essay by Wilson on the Jordan River.
The French orientalist and archeologist Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923) was one of the prominent scholars of Palestine in the 19th century. Clermont-Ganneau arrived in Palestine in 1867 and worked as a translator at the French consulate in Jerusalem. During his stay in Jerusalem he studied and researched the archeological sites of Palestine, and with time gained a reputation as one of the important scholars of Biblical archeology in the country (among other things, for his contribution to the identification, research and restoration of the Mesha Stele). In the years 1873-1874 he headed the British archeological delegation to Palestine on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, discovering the first three (out of thirteen) Gezer perimeter inscriptions (inscriptions carved into stone surfaces surrounding Tel Gezer). Later he took part in archeological excavations in Syria and the Red Sea, and in the years 1880-1882 served as the vice-consul in Jaffa. After completing his consular role he returned to Paris, where he studied Eastern languages.
The addressee, Charles Wilson (1836-1905) was a pioneer of modern Palestine studies and one of the leaders of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Wilson arrived in Palestine in 1863 at the head of a British team of engineers whose role it was to consult the Ottoman authorities regarding the improvement of sanitary conditions in Jerusalem. Wilson's first mission was the mapping of Jerusalem, following which he published a map that is considered the first modern map of Jerusalem. Later he was involved in mapping the area east of Mount Lebanon on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and took part in the survey of Sinai and in the research and preparation of a comprehensive, detailed map of Palestine (a project titled "From Dan to Beersheba" that produced 26 map sheets, accompanied by research volumes. Wilson edited the volumes on Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee).
14X9 cm. Good condition. Creases and light stains.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Category
The Hermann M. Z. Meyer Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Letter handwritten and signed by British explorer Claude Reignier Conder, addressed to Canon Dalton. Weymouth, England, October 1896. English.
An interesting letter concerning the findings of the archeological excavations in the area of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem.
During the 1880s, the British archeologist Jones Bliss (1859-1937) and Archibald Campbell Dickie carried out archeological excavations in Jerusalem on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Their work focused mostly on identifying and excavating Jerusalem's southern walls. Among other things, they exposed the remains of the Byzantine church at the Pool of Siloam.
In his letter Conder discusses the findings of the excavations of Bliss and Dickie and expresses his professional opinion of Bliss's work. On the second page is a diagram of the Pool of Siloam area, added by Conder to illustrate his words. Among other things he writes: "When I saw the wall to the S W [south-west] of the pool in 1881 I did not think it was a city wall but that of some large building... my suspicion is confirmed by there being no wall to north of A. [marked in Conder's diagram] I fancy at D we may have a city wall with tower… Bliss does not seem to think of this… He ought to beware of thinking every wall he finds a city wall but on the whole I think he is doing well".
Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910) was a British soldier and explorer. In the 1870s he headed the survey mission of the Palestine Exploration Fund that surveyed Palestine west of the Jordan. The addressee, Canon Dalton, was also a member of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
[1] folded leaf (four written pages), 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
An interesting letter concerning the findings of the archeological excavations in the area of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem.
During the 1880s, the British archeologist Jones Bliss (1859-1937) and Archibald Campbell Dickie carried out archeological excavations in Jerusalem on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Their work focused mostly on identifying and excavating Jerusalem's southern walls. Among other things, they exposed the remains of the Byzantine church at the Pool of Siloam.
In his letter Conder discusses the findings of the excavations of Bliss and Dickie and expresses his professional opinion of Bliss's work. On the second page is a diagram of the Pool of Siloam area, added by Conder to illustrate his words. Among other things he writes: "When I saw the wall to the S W [south-west] of the pool in 1881 I did not think it was a city wall but that of some large building... my suspicion is confirmed by there being no wall to north of A. [marked in Conder's diagram] I fancy at D we may have a city wall with tower… Bliss does not seem to think of this… He ought to beware of thinking every wall he finds a city wall but on the whole I think he is doing well".
Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910) was a British soldier and explorer. In the 1870s he headed the survey mission of the Palestine Exploration Fund that surveyed Palestine west of the Jordan. The addressee, Canon Dalton, was also a member of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
[1] folded leaf (four written pages), 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.
Category
The Hermann M. Z. Meyer Collection
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