Poems from Gaza: Reading & Discussion : Special Collections and Archives

Black and white map on paper with color in outline. Copperplate engraving. Front: depiction of Egypt and Palestine in the timese of Moses. Relief indicated by hachures. Insert map in lower right corner: Ethiopie au dessus de l'Egypte. Map was originally folded in half, [plate] number 5 in lower right corner. Back: blank

Color map on paper: Front: map of the historic Palestine with territories of the twelve tribes of Israel marked in color. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset black and white map of Arabia Petræa in lower right corner. Number 26 in upper right corner. Back: text in English titled: "Arabia, or Arabistan."

Color map on paper. Front: map of Egypt, Palestine and Phoenicia surrounded by ornamental border. Removed from an atlas; plate no. 38. Text in top left corner reads: "3. Ǵeog[ra]phie Anc[ien]ne". Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown by hachures. Back: blank.

Color map on paper: Front: historic map of Palestine during Roman times. Relief shown by hachures. Two ancillary maps: "Royaume des Israelites sous David et Salomon" and "Les douze tribus" in the right portion of the sheet. Atlas plate number in upper margin: Pl. II., title: Géographie ancienne. Back is blank.

Relief shown pictorially. Map is bordered with illustrations: sailing vessels, nautical symbols and two cartouches. This is the second variant of the first Palestine map of Ortelius. From the Latin edition of Theatrum orbis terrarum,1579. Latin text on verso titled Palaestina, p. 18.

Color map on paper. Front: depiction of the Arabian Peninsula showing administrative divisions and various points of intersts. British territories marked in orange. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Two inset maps to the left: Modern Jerusalem (scale ca. 1: 33,000) and Modern Palestine (scale 1:1,900,800, 30 mi. to 1 in.). Number 102 in upper right corner. Back is blank.