THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF THE PENINSULA OF SINAI BY JAMES MCDONALD (1822 - 1885)
Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, ca.1869

THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF THE PENINSULA OF SINAI BY JAMES MCDONALD (1822 - 1885)
Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, ca.1869

Comprising a collection of 53 albumen prints, mounted on loose leaves, including two panoramas, the title page and index of this rare volume also included, mounted on original pages, with typescript titles in the lower margin, each print approx. 21cm x 16.5cm.

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Dimensions: each print approx. 21cm x 16.5cm

CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai. Made with the Sanction of The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart: Secretary of State for War, Southampton, Ordnance Survey Office, 1869

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.