(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 178

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, by Lieuts. C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener. Special edition illustrating the divisions of the natural drainage and the mountain ranges according to “An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine” by Trelawney Saunders Six attached sheets on card, linen-backed. Housed in contemporary slipcase Laor 219

London: Stanford’s Geographical Establishment 1881

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) was a British Field Marshal and imperial administrator. In 1874, a young Kitchener arrived to assist Lieutenant C.R. Conder in the first successful mapping of the entire region of the Holy Land not undertaken since Napoleon’s attempt. The field work was done by prismatic compass and no plane-table was used. The reason given by Conder was that the members of the party constantly moved about on horseback and “a plane-table is an inconvenient thing to carry on a horse.”