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Lot #
7130
Auction End Date
4/27/2004 10:24:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Picturesque Palestine
Title (Hebrew)
Sinai and Egypt
Author
[Illustrated] Sir Charles William Wilson
City
New York
Publisher
D. Appleton and Company
Publication Date
1881
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. Two of 5 volumes. [2], 239-476; [2], 239-480 pp., engraved titles, 1 double-page map & 19 plates, 324:238 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern half leather and marbled paper boards.
Detailed
Description
Sir Charles William Wilson (1836–1905), English army officer and topographer. Wilson entered the Royal Engineers in 1855. He directed the survey of Jerusalem (1864–66) and the survey of Sinai (1868–69) for the Ordnance Survey. He later served as consul in Turkey, intelligence officer during the wars in Sudan (1884–85), and director-general of the Ordnance Survey from 1886 to 1894 when he retired from military service with the rank of major-general. His publications on Erez Israel include the first exact map of Jerusalem (1864), which still serves as the topographical basis of the Old City; explanatory notes on the map (1865); and a map of the Sinai Peninsula (1869). Wilson also contributed to the volume on Jerusalem (1880) in the series Picturesque Palestine. During his work Wilson identified remains of the bridge which connected the Temple Mount with the Upper City in the Second Temple period; this has been named after him.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Characteristic
Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
