Palestine 1858

Second editionCovers Palestine, Israel, and parts of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.; Shows Ottoman administrative divisions, populated places, roads, and tracks.; Relief shown by hachures. Dephts shown by soundings.; "Constructed by ... van de Velde, Late Lieut. Dutch R. N., Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, from his own surveys in 1851 & 1852, from those made in 1841 by Majors Robe and Rochfort Scott, Lieut. Symonds and other officers of her Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers; and from the results of the researches made by Lynch, Robinson, Wilson, Burckhardt, Seetzen & c."; "Engraved by Eberhardt and by Stichardt."; Each sheet individually numbered: Section 1 - 8.; Includes 11 cross sections of the: Road from Beirut to Damascus -- Anti-Lebanon-Range and el-Bukaa -- Lebanon-Range -- From Cape Carmel to the Lake of Tiberias -- Country on the east side of the Jordan -- West-Jordan section -- Jordan Valley -- Mountains from Jerusalem to the Valley of Jizreel -- Mountain-Section from Yafa to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea -- The Dead Sea -- Judea Mountains.; Insets: Map of the environs of Jerusalem -- Plan of Jerusalem.Color;1:315,00