Les Quatorze Stations de la Voie Douloureuse [14 Stations of the Via Dolorosa]. Paris: M. Doussault, 1855. French. Second edition.
A folio volume with fourteen lithographs depicting the fourteen stations of the Via Dolorosa in the Old City in Jerusalem, map of the route, and a text describing the various stations. The lithographs were created after paintings by the French artist Charles Doussault. The title page is printed in red.
[3] ff. (title page and two text pages), [15] plates, 52 cm. Cloth-covered, gilt embossed binding. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Significant foxing and minor blemishes. Several pages browned. Most of the leaves and plates are partly detached. Worn binding (damage to front). Bookplate on inside front binding.

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 its 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.

Large collection of prints depicting views and sights in Palestine and the Near East, most of them after works by artists who visited Palestine in the 19th century - Ulrich Halbreiter, David Roberts, William Henry Bartlett, photographer Frances Frith and others. London, Edinburgh, Munich, Stuttgart, New York and elsewhere, 19th century (some prints are possibly from the early 20th century).
Approx. 240 prints – engravings and lithographs (some are in color or hand-colored), from books. The sites depicted include: Jerusalem, Tiberias, Beit Guvrin, Solomon's Pools, Valley of Josaphat, Khan al-Tujjar (Lower Galilee), the ruins of a temple in Thebes (Egypt), the city of Suez before the canal was constructed, and many other sites. Some of the prints were made by important and well-known engravers or printers: William Finden (1787-1852); James Baylis Allen (1803-1876); the Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel and Georg Michael Kurz printing firm; and more.
Approx. 240 prints. Several duplicates. Size and condition vary.