Ordnance survey of the peninsula of Sinai.
By: Made with the sanction of the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, bart., secretary of state for war, by Captains C.W. Wilson and H.S. Palmer, under the direction of Colonel Sir Henry James...director-general of the Ordnance survey. Pub. by authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
Contributors: Wilson, Charles William, Sir, 1836-1905.; Palmer, H. Spencer 1838-1893.; James, H., 1803-1877.
Publisher: Ordnance survey office; H.M. Stationery off., G.E. Eyre and W.S. Spottiswoode, printers]
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Southampton; [London
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history -- Egypt -- Shamāl Sīnāʼ.; Inscriptions -- Egypt -- Shamāl Sīnāʼ.; Inscriptions, Egyptian.; Sinai (Egypt) -- Surveys.; Sinai (Egypt) -- Antiquities.
Notes: Most of the plates are mounted photographs; mounted photographs on title-pages of v. 1, 3, 4 and 5 (v. 2 without t.p.)
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Account of the origin, progress and results of the survey (with illustrations); title: pt. 2. Maps, plans and sections [in portfolio]; title: pt. 3. Photographic views (in 3 vols.): Suez to Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa) Wady Feiran and Mount Serbal. Sinaitic and Egyptian inscriptions.