Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History
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November 15, 02:56 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Middle East—Haifa-Baghdad Railway Survey
Haifa-Baghdad Railway Survey [with reports for Port of Aqaba and Jordan-Hedjaz Railway]. 1930-54, comprising:
i)Palestine—Trans-Jordan—Iraq: Haifa-Baghdad Railway, Survey 1930-1931, Report and Estimates.London: Waterlow and Sons for Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, Consulting Engineers, 1932. 2 volumes, folio (332 x 212mm.), numerous general drawings, plans and sections, and type drawings, 10 colour maps (including 4 folding at rear), original green cloth, spine and covers lettered in gilt, lacking 11 folios of plans and drawings, upper cover of volume 2 slightly sunned, slightly rubbed
ii) The Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan. Port of Aqaba: Consulting Engineers' Report. London: Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, April 1953. 20 photographic illustrations, 13 further drawings (including maps and site plans), withdrawn stamp to front pastedown, original green cloth, covers stained, slightly rubbed
iii) The Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan. Port of Aqaba: Consulting Engineers' Report. London: Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, December 1954. 20 photographic illustrations, 17 drawings (9 folding, including maps, graphs, and diagrams), withdrawn stamp to front free endpaper, original green cloth, slightly rubbed
Surveys and reports on infrastructure projects, predominantly of the Haifa-Baghdad Railway, the Port of Aqaba and the Jordan-Hedjaz railway.