WAR OFFICE TOPOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT

'Ordnance survey of Sinai, 1869'

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WAR OFFICE TOPOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT
'Ordnance survey of Sinai, 1869'
Thirty-six stereocards, yellow card mounts, several annotated or inscribed in ink and the majority with printed series title, number and credit on verso, in wooden viewing box, printed label John Batters Royal Engineers mounted inside. (37)

拍品专文

Titles include: 'Group of Natives, with women grinding corn' (illus.), 'Bedawin Encampment, Men sitting round the wood fire', 'Members of the Sinai Expedition and guides at Wady Feiran' inscribed Murdered by Arabs in Sinai Peninsula together with Captain Gill R.E. in 1882..., 'Priests and Servants of the Convent of St. Katherine', 'Jebel Serbal from Upper Palms in Wady Aleyat', 'Gardens near Camp in Wady Feiran', 'Shittim Tree, dedicated to patron Saint', 'Royal Engineer's Camp in Wady ed Deir, and Jebel Sona', 'Hajgar Musa (Moses' Rock), Wady Leja and 'The lower Arch on the Steps leading up to Jebel Musa'.