Palestine & adjacent countries / published by Charles Desilver.

Format:

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Desilver, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868, contributor.

Charles Desilver (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Maps.

Palestine.

Jerusalem--Maps.

Jerusalem.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 map : color ; 37 x 30 cm

Scale approximately 1:1,200,000 (E 34°00ʹ--E 37°00ʹ/N 34°00ʹ--N 31°00ʹ).

paper

polychrome

Other Title:

Palestine and adjacent countries

Cartographic Data:

Scale approximately 1:1,200,000 (E 34°00ʹ--E 37°00ʹ/N 34°00ʹ--N 31°00ʹ).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Charles Desilver, [1859]

Notes:

Map of present day Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and part of Syria. Shows territories belonging to the Twelve Biblical tribes of Israel, populated places, principal roads, and Biblical names of selected places.

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.

"Published by Charles Desilver, No. 714 Chesnut Street Philadelphia."

"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856, by Charles Desilver, in the Clerk's office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pensylvania."

From: New universal atlas, containing maps of the various empires, kingdoms, states and republics of the world, etc.. by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1859, page 70.

Includes list of Turkish Provinces, geographic notes, and explanation of Arabic appellatives which occur in the map, and inset map titled "Environs of Jerusalem", scale 1:400,000.

"70."--In upper right margin.

Local Notes:

G7500 1859 D4 1859: Purchased by the Penn Libraries from The Philadelphia Print Shop in 2016.

OCLC:

896004136