Bonhams 1793 : SINAI WILSON (CHARLES WILLIAM) Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai. Made with the Sanction of The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart: Secretary of State for War, vol. 1 only, Southampton, Ordnance Survey Office, 1869

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WILSON (CHARLES WILLIAM) Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai. Made with the Sanction of The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart: Secretary of State for War, vol. one only, 55 mounted albumen prints, including frontispiece and 3 linen-backed panoramas, printed captions on the mount, occasional light foxing, not affecting images, half morocco, rubbed, folio, Southampton, Ordnance Survey Office, 1869

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

A VERY GOOD COPY of this scarce survey. In 1868-1869 a team of Royal Engineers under the leadership of Captain (later Sir) Charles Wilson was sent to make a survey of the Peninsula of Sinai for the Ordnance Survey. During the expedition to Sinai at least 264 listed photographs were taken by Colour Sergeant James MacDonald R.E. One hundred and fifty were published in three volumes of the official account of the survey, of which this is volume one. The additional photographs not included in these volumes could be purchased separately at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southampton.

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