Ordnance survey of the peninsula of Sinai /

Ordnance survey of the peninsula of Sinai /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Great Britain. Ordnance Survey.
Imprint:	Southampton : Ordnance Survey Office ; [London : H.M. Stationery off., G.E. Eyre and W.S. Spottiswoode, printers], 1869.
Description:	3 v. : plates (part fold., part col.) maps (part fold.) plans (part col.) ; 39-55 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Natural history -- Egypt -- Shamāl Sīnāʼ. Inscriptions -- Egypt -- Shamāl Sīnāʼ. Inscriptions, Egyptian Antiquities. Inscriptions. Inscriptions, Egyptian. Natural history. Sinai (Egypt) -- Surveys. Sinai (Egypt) -- Antiquities. Egypt -- Shamāl Sīnāʼ Egypt -- Sinai. Surveys.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	Library never obtained most of the photographs of vol. 3 ; list of photographs published is in portfolio and has check-marks by numbers of photographs held.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4856295

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Other authors / contributors:	Wilson, Charles William, Sir, 1836-1905. Palmer, H. Spencer (Henry Spencer), 1838-1893. James, H., 1803-1877.
Notes:	Most of the plates are mounted photographs; mounted photographs on title-pages of v. 1 (v. 2 without t.p.).

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Account of the origin, progress and results of the survey (with illustrations)
pt. 2. Maps, plans and sections
pt. 3. Photographic views (in portfolio): Suez to Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa) Wady Feiran and Mount Serbal. Sinaitic and Egyptian inscriptions.