![ARMSTRONG, George. Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources ... revised by Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ... and Major C.R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0233_001(armstrong_george_palestine_from_the_surveys_conducted_for_the_committe114047).jpg?w=1)
![ARMSTRONG, George. Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources ... revised by Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ... and Major C.R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0233_002(armstrong_george_palestine_from_the_surveys_conducted_for_the_committe114056).jpg?w=1)
![ARMSTRONG, George. Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources ... revised by Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ... and Major C.R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0233_003(armstrong_george_palestine_from_the_surveys_conducted_for_the_committe114104).jpg?w=1)
![ARMSTRONG, George. Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources ... revised by Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ... and Major C.R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0233_000(armstrong_george_palestine_from_the_surveys_conducted_for_the_committe101806).jpg?w=1)
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ARMSTRONG, George. Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources ... revised by Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ... and Major C.R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. London: Edward Stanford for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890.
Extremely rare expanded edition of the Palestine Exploration Fund's 'Great Map,' with the cartography covering Eastern Palestine into Transjordan. The PEF originally restricted its 1870s survey of the Holy Land to western Palestine, and their pioneering, and exceptionally accurate, map was published 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. In 1881, Conder, assisted by Lieut. A.M. Mantell, R.E., and Sergeants G. Armstrong and T. Black, was tasked with surveying east of the Jordan River, a job made easier by reusing the American Palestine Exploration Society's triangulation stations and cairns which they had built during their own survey of the Transjordan area in the 1870s. All work came to an abrupt halt in 1882 when the Ottoman authorities denied permission to continue the survey. Apparently, the areas which had been completed were laid down on a scale of one inch to a mile in accordance with the map of Western Palestine, but none seem to have survived. The PEF waited to see if the Ottoman restrictions would be lifted, but by 1883 they had given up, and by 1884 all of Conder's work was in the PEF's Committee's hands. Instead, the PEF decided to publish the map of Eastern Palestine on the reduced scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960) together with cartography of Western Palestine in a unified map, and issue it with a new set of volumes simply titled A Survey of Palestine, covering both east and west, in 1889. The print run was restricted to 500 copies, and was advertised as ready in January 1890. However, it appears that Stanford was promoting the map as a separate publication from as early as 1885. This suggests the present lot is a slightly later issue; one conundrum is why Sergeant Armstrong receives headline billing as the compiler, and not Conder himself; Colonel Wilson was surveyor of Jerusalem 1864-1865, and was the architect of the PEF's thorough and painstaking survey in all aspects, cartographic, archaeological, meteorological and geological.
Large chromolithographic wall map drawn on a scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960), dissected and mounted onto linen, and folded into 4 separate sections, unfolded the whole map approx. 2450 x 1670mm, with the south-western sheet with flap extending 640 x 210mm. An elaborate map with the base topography printed in brown, water features printed in blue, places and geographical areas of Biblical and Classical interest over-printed in red and blue, title and scale printed in top left-hand corner of north-west section, key, explanatory text and index map showing extent of ground survey in bottom right-hand corner of south-east sheet. Original leather slipcase (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles Thurburn (bookplate on verso of each section panel) – contemporary manuscript index leaf on verso of first section panel.
Extremely rare expanded edition of the Palestine Exploration Fund's 'Great Map,' with the cartography covering Eastern Palestine into Transjordan. The PEF originally restricted its 1870s survey of the Holy Land to western Palestine, and their pioneering, and exceptionally accurate, map was published 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. In 1881, Conder, assisted by Lieut. A.M. Mantell, R.E., and Sergeants G. Armstrong and T. Black, was tasked with surveying east of the Jordan River, a job made easier by reusing the American Palestine Exploration Society's triangulation stations and cairns which they had built during their own survey of the Transjordan area in the 1870s. All work came to an abrupt halt in 1882 when the Ottoman authorities denied permission to continue the survey. Apparently, the areas which had been completed were laid down on a scale of one inch to a mile in accordance with the map of Western Palestine, but none seem to have survived. The PEF waited to see if the Ottoman restrictions would be lifted, but by 1883 they had given up, and by 1884 all of Conder's work was in the PEF's Committee's hands. Instead, the PEF decided to publish the map of Eastern Palestine on the reduced scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960) together with cartography of Western Palestine in a unified map, and issue it with a new set of volumes simply titled A Survey of Palestine, covering both east and west, in 1889. The print run was restricted to 500 copies, and was advertised as ready in January 1890. However, it appears that Stanford was promoting the map as a separate publication from as early as 1885. This suggests the present lot is a slightly later issue; one conundrum is why Sergeant Armstrong receives headline billing as the compiler, and not Conder himself; Colonel Wilson was surveyor of Jerusalem 1864-1865, and was the architect of the PEF's thorough and painstaking survey in all aspects, cartographic, archaeological, meteorological and geological.
Large chromolithographic wall map drawn on a scale of 3/8 inch to 1 mile (1:168,960), dissected and mounted onto linen, and folded into 4 separate sections, unfolded the whole map approx. 2450 x 1670mm, with the south-western sheet with flap extending 640 x 210mm. An elaborate map with the base topography printed in brown, water features printed in blue, places and geographical areas of Biblical and Classical interest over-printed in red and blue, title and scale printed in top left-hand corner of north-west section, key, explanatory text and index map showing extent of ground survey in bottom right-hand corner of south-east sheet. Original leather slipcase (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles Thurburn (bookplate on verso of each section panel) – contemporary manuscript index leaf on verso of first section panel.
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