[Rarebooks] FS: Map of Palestine in 26 sheets

[Greg Powers]

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Conder, Lieutenants C. R. and H. H. Kitchener.  Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets From Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund…During the Years 1872-1877.  Scale: One Inch to a Mile.  Photozincographed and Printed for the Committee Under the Superintendence of Lt. Col. Carey.  London, 1880.  Subscriber’s copy, No. 153 of an unspecified limited edition signed by James Glaisher, Chariman of the Palestine Exploration Fund.  Large folio, appx. 23 by 27 inches, loose sheets laid in a half leather portfolio (spine, corners, flaps and ties renewed), title-page and color key map plus 26 sheets.  The title and key map with old repairs on the verso, several leaves with slight chipping and closed tears at the edges, some spotting to the portfolio covers, otherwise clean and very good. 
 
The PEF was established "for the purpose of investigating the Archaeology, Geography, manners, customs and culture, Geology and Natural History of the Holy Land."  The project of mapping Palestine was interrupted several times by fighting.  In addition to providing some of the earliest accurate geographical information on Palestine (their work had been preceded by several smaller explorations and surveys starting in 1838), the project also identified Biblical, Talmudic, early Christian, and Crusading locations, data crucial for modern archaeological digs.  Subsequent to the founding of the PEF, "scientific investigations in Palestine were carried out with a continuity and a vigour hitherto unknown" (Baker, A History of Geographical Discovery and Exploration, p. 244).

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