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CONDER, C.R. and H.H. KITCHENER. Map of Western Palestine ... shewing the natural drainage together with vertical sections of the country. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1884
Extremely rare special edition of the Palestine Exploration Fund's 'Great Map,' with the cartography covering the hydrology of Western Palestine. The PEF published their pioneering, and exceptionally accurate, map on 26 sheets at a scale of one inch to a mile (1:63,360) in 1880. It was published alongside a series of memoirs entitled A Survey of Western Palestine, which took some 6 years to complete, and cost about £6000. Although the PEF made a profit on this large outlay, presumably Stanford came to an arrangement with the Fund to publish maps on the reduced scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960) as 'special editions,' such as the present lot, in order to drive better returns. This map bears the same date as one of the final volumes of the Survey of Western Palestine, Canon Tristram's Flora and Fauna of Western Palestine, and this map would have been a suitable accompaniment.
Large chromolithographic wall map drawn on a scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960), dissected and mounted onto linen, unfolded the whole map approx. 2450 x 1670mm. An elaborate map with the base topography printed in brown, hydrological features printed in green and blue, title and scale printed in top left-hand corner, large section printed longitudinally on left-hand side, with 4 smaller sections, 2 at the top, and 2 at the bottom of the map (occasional faint and insignificant browning along folds). Original blue-green cloth slipcase with printed label (extremities heavily rubbed with short splits at base, but intact).
Extremely rare special edition of the Palestine Exploration Fund's 'Great Map,' with the cartography covering the hydrology of Western Palestine. The PEF published their pioneering, and exceptionally accurate, map on 26 sheets at a scale of one inch to a mile (1:63,360) in 1880. It was published alongside a series of memoirs entitled A Survey of Western Palestine, which took some 6 years to complete, and cost about £6000. Although the PEF made a profit on this large outlay, presumably Stanford came to an arrangement with the Fund to publish maps on the reduced scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960) as 'special editions,' such as the present lot, in order to drive better returns. This map bears the same date as one of the final volumes of the Survey of Western Palestine, Canon Tristram's Flora and Fauna of Western Palestine, and this map would have been a suitable accompaniment.
Large chromolithographic wall map drawn on a scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960), dissected and mounted onto linen, unfolded the whole map approx. 2450 x 1670mm. An elaborate map with the base topography printed in brown, hydrological features printed in green and blue, title and scale printed in top left-hand corner, large section printed longitudinally on left-hand side, with 4 smaller sections, 2 at the top, and 2 at the bottom of the map (occasional faint and insignificant browning along folds). Original blue-green cloth slipcase with printed label (extremities heavily rubbed with short splits at base, but intact).
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