by Oliver Brockbank. Copy 1(S): signed and dated by the author. Copy 2 with Prof. Jacob Wahrman's handwritten notes. Copy 2 includes Prof. Jacob... Show moreby Oliver Brockbank. Copy 1(S): signed and dated by the author. Copy 2 with Prof. Jacob Wahrman's handwritten notes. Copy 2 includes Prof. Jacob Wahrman's references to photographs. Show less
The plan of one of the mud-walled village upon the banks of the Nile. [low l. h. with key note below]. Abr. Elton del [low l. h.]. In cartouche: ... Show moreThe plan of one of the mud-walled village upon the banks of the Nile. [low l. h. with key note below]. Abr. Elton del [low l. h.]. In cartouche: "To the Reverend and Honourable Richard Trevor Ltd. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford" [oval cart low r. h.]. The Persian wheel [centre right. plan and key note]. The rivers and mountains are shown pictorially. There is presentation of road lines and historical monuments with their description. Size: 40.40 x 33.40 cm. Published in 1720. Coloured. English. Upper right hand corner above neatline: "Obs: P. 377" Frame Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00910 Print Map Item-ID: i11402362 BIB-ID: 1172579 Show less
by F.W. Moon and H. Sadek. Includes index. Two maps on folded leaves in pocket. Main Heritage Shelves General TN877.E5 A5 1921 Book Item-ID: i10231596 BIB... Show moreby F.W. Moon and H. Sadek. Includes index. Two maps on folded leaves in pocket. Main Heritage Shelves General TN877.E5 A5 1921 Book Item-ID: i10231596 BIB-ID: 1024795 Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.02 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174496 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.01 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174435 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Railroads, Railroads--Saudi Arabia--Hejaz, Pilgrims and prilgrimages, Muslim, Pilgrims and prilgrimages, Muslim--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--Photographs, Scientific expeditions, Scientific expeditions--Arab countries--Photographs
Photographs showing major sites and geographic features of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine. Most of the photographs were taken... Show morePhotographs showing major sites and geographic features of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine. Most of the photographs were taken between 1905 and 1915 by Bernard Moritz, but some also by his Turkish friends, especially for areas where non-muslim were prohibited from going. Pictures depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Jeddah, Petra, and Mount Sinai. Bernard Moritz was an Arabist and archaeologist. from 1898 to 1911 he was in charge of the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo. During his stay in Egypt, he made numerous research trips to Sinai and Hejaz. Title and date from item. Photographs are tipped onto 50 card mounts with printed captions, numbered 1-100. Bookplate designed by Julius Diez approximately in 1914 on verso of title; "A. Toluboff" (probably the Russian-born Hollywood art director, 1882-1940), blindstamped. label on recto of title. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0105 Book Item-ID: i23186653 BIB-ID: 2489491 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DT137.S55 P17 1871
by E.H. Palmer ; with maps and numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Expedition and C.F.... Show moreby E.H. Palmer ; with maps and numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Expedition and C.F. Tyrwhitt Drake. Paged continuously. Advertisements on p. 12, third sequence. Woodcuts engraved by Henry Newsom Woods. Includes half-title page. Main Heritage Shelves General DT137.S55 P17 1871 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i20236888 BIB-ID: 1021273 Includes bibliographical references and index. Box Collection copies are from the library of Canon George Herbert Box, 1869-1933, professor of Hebrew at King's College, London. UkLU-K FCO Historical Collection copies are from the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. UkLU-K FCO Historical Collection copy of vol. 1 has small oval ownership stamp on frontispiece verso: "Arab Bureau". Ms. annotation in pencil at foot of final page. UkLU-K Show less
