A book on the geography of Palestine and a large map of the Palestine Exploration Fund. London, 1881. English.
1. Map of Western Palestine, from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, by Lieuts. C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener R. E.. London: Edward Stanford for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1881. English.
A precise, detailed map of Palestine, from the Litani River in the north to Beersheba in the south. See Laor 218.
Approx. 93X156 cm (dissected to 30 panels), linen-backed, folded and placed in an original cardboard slipcase. Good condition. Minor stains. Tears and minor blemishes to the slipcase.
2. An introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: its Waterways, Plains, & Highlands… According to the Survey Conducted by Lieutenants Conder & Kitchener, by Trelawney Saunders. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1881. English.
An introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine, by Trelawney Saunders (1821-1910), a geographer, cartographer and a member of the Royal Geographical Society. The book was published at the initiative of the Palestine Exploration Fund and was intended to serve as an introduction and explanation to a large map of Palestine which the PEF published separately.
XIV, [1], 4-268 pp, 22 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Minor blemishes to binding.
The Palestine Exploration Fund started working in Palestine in the late 1860s. The mapping and survey of Palestine by the PEF lasted for some ten years, and is considered, among other projects of the fund, the forerunner of scientific research of Palestine.