Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, by Charles William Wilson and Henry Spenser Palmer. Southampton (England): Ordnance Survey Office, on the title page: 1869 (the preface is dated 1871). English. Part I (out of three).
Part I of the Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai by Charles William Wilson and Henry Spenser Palmer, under the direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, Director-General of the British Ordnance Survey. The volume contains an account of the survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, the methods of survey and the findings. Twenty plates (some in color) with illustrations, plans and sections. A photograph of Oyun Musa (The springs of Moses, Sinai) is mounted on the title page.
Charles William Wilson (1836-1905) was a British Royal Engineers officer, geographer and archaeologist, a pioneer of the modern survey of Palestine. In 1868, he and the British engineer and officer Henry Spenser Palmer (1838-1893) embarked on an expedition to the Peninsula of Sinai on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The findings of the survey were published in three parts (five volumes): a review of the survey, map portfolio and three photograph portfolios. This is the first part, reviewing the survey and its archeological findings.
One of the participants in the expedition was the scholar and orientalist Eduard Henry Palmer (1840-1882), who headed another expedition to Sinai in 1882 (in the midst of the 'Urabi Revolt against the British involvement in Egypt) and was murdered by Bedouins together with the other members of the expedition.
[3] leaves, 323, [1] pp. + XX plates, approx. 48 cm. Good-fair condition. The leaves are detached. Stains and some creases. Small tears and wormholes to margins of several leaves (the book was fumigated). An ex-library copy (stamps to several leaves; label to inside front board). Detached binding, worn and slightly damaged.

Les fraudes archéologiques en Palestine, suivies de quelques monuments phéniciens apocryphes [Archeological Frauds in Palestine…], by Charles Clermont-Ganneau. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1885. French.
A work on the forgery of antiquities in Palestine, with five illustrated plates and additional in-text illustrations. Two chapters of this work are dedicated to the forgeries of the Jerusalemite collector and antiquities dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830-1884). Inscribed on the front endpaper by the author, Charles Clermont-Ganneau.
French archeologist and Orientalist Charles Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1932) was one of the leading researchers of Palestine in the 19th century. Clermont-Ganneau came to Palestine in 1867 and began exploring its archeological sites. During the years 1873-1874, he led the Palestine Exploration Fund's archeological expedition to Palestine. With time, he acquired a reputation as one of the most important scholars of biblical archeology in Palestine. Today, Clermont-Ganneau is remembered due to his exposure of several archeological forgeries, including the forgeries of Moses Wilhelm Shapira – the Moabite collections of pottery and the scrolls allegedly discovered in the Dead Sea area.
357 pp + [5] plates, 17 cm. Fair-poor condition. Torn along spine; loose sections. The first plate is detached. Many pages unopened at upper edge. Creases and small tears to margins. Open tears to cover and spine (including a large open tear to front cover, affecting the text). One tear to back cover reinforced with tape. Small pen notation to back cover. Cover is partly stuck to endpapers.

The New Illustrated Bible: The Holy Bible, with concise introductions to the several books […] by the Rev. Donald Macleod, D.D.; Bible Dictionary or Compendium of Information Regarding the Names, Places, Natural History, and General Subjects Mentioned in Scriptures. London: J. S. Virtue & Co., Limited, [ca. 1880s]. English. Three parts in six volumes.
The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, accompanied by dozens of engraved plates (steel engravings) and hundreds of in-text wood engravings. Many of the engraved plates depict biblical scenes and figures whereas the in-text engravings depict views of Palestine and its surroundings; many of the illustrations are the work of artists Harry Fenn and John Douglas Woodward, created for the Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt series (New York and London, ca. 1881-1884) during two journeys to Palestine and its surroundings in 1877-1878 and 1878-1879.
With a dictionary for biblical names, places, plants, animals and more.
Part I, first volume: [1] leaf, XX, [1], 194 pp. + [9] engraved plates, including an engraved title page, [1] map of Egypt and Sinai (double-spread); Part I, second volume: 195-488 pp. + [7] engraved plates; Part II, first volume: X, 489-698 pp. + [8] engraved plates, including an engraved title page; Part II, second volume: 699-936 pp, [2] leaves + [6] engraved plates; Part III, first volume: IX, [1], 937-994, 156 pp. + [11] engraved plates, including an engraved title page, [1] map of Palestine (double-spread); Part III, second volume: 157-358, 46 pp. + [3] engraved plates.
37 cm. Contemporary limp leather, gold-tooled and embossed. Gilt edges. Good condition. Blemishes, stains, some small marginal tears to leaves. Wear and tears to spine and extremities.

Holy Land Album, Views and Flowers, Artificial Pictures of the Holy Places, Views of old and New Jerusalem. Specimens of Flowers from the Holy Land. Jerusalem: "Zvi Kadesh", [ca. late 19th century].
An album of pressed flowers from Palestine. With color lithographic illustrations of the first neighborhoods of Jerusalem on most leaves, captioned in Hebrew, English and German. Mounted on verso of the leaves are pressed flowers, with text indicating their origin in five languages: Hebrew, English, German, French and Russian.
Color map of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River, with the territories of the Tribes, printed on verso of title page. The last page features an illustration titled "Memorial of the Temple Ruins".
Elegant carved olive wood binding depicting the Dome of the Rock and reading "Jerusalem / Omar Moschee".
[11] leaves, 14.5X8.5 cm. Good overall condition. Several stains and minor blemishes. Edges slightly trimmed (slightly affecting text). Professionally restored, with new tissue guards.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.