Description: Palestine Exploration Fund Annuals, four volumes (I, II, III, IV) 1911-1925. Volumes summarizing the years: 1911, 1912-1913, 1914-1915, 1923-1925.Palestine Exploration Fund. Annual 1911. Volume I. Duncan Mackenzie I: Megalithic monuments of Rabbath Ammon at Amman. By D. Mackenzie. II: Excavations at Ain Shems (Beth-Shemesh). By D. Mackenzie. III: The Khazneh at Petra. By Gustav Dalman. Illustrated by plans and drawings by F. G. Newton. London: Palestine Exploration Fund 1911 4to. 110 pp. 17 plates, 40 text-illustrations, index. First edition in the publisher's black cloth-backed boards. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, small tear at top of contents/illustrations page (3/4”). Small scribble on first blank page opposite title page (see photos). Some browning, pages are otherwise clean. Covers show edge wear with rubbing. Bumped corners. Spine sunned. Binding is tight, hinges strong. •Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, Vol. II, 1912 – 1913, (Double Volume) Excavations at Ain Shems, (Beth-Shemesh), by Duncan Mackenzie Ph.D. From Seminary library. First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto,publisher's cloth backed boards, very good, light wear and soil to binding, some wear and loss tocorners, particularly the front lower outer one, lightest rubbing and wear to spine ends, ownershipsignature of James Kelso (well-known archaeologist), name stamp of Paul W. Lapp, anotherprominent archaeologist, stamp on pastedown of the Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary. 105 pp text, 61plates, at least two in color. Very good. •Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, Vol. III, 1914 – 1915, (Double Volume) The Wilderness of Zin, by T. E. Lawrence and C. Leonard Woolley. From Seminary library with usual stamps and markings (see photos). Tall quarto (8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches), original half navy cloth and gray paper boards. Small tear on top layer of front board involving the letter d on title (see photo). Interior very fresh, library sticker on spine. A desirable copy. First edition, first issue, of "the first of Lawrence's books to appear in book form," with large folding plan, seven full-page maps, plans and illustrations, 37 photographic plates and nearly 60 in-text illustrations, an excellent copy. "During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form" (O'Brien, 6). Their stated assignment was "to trace ancient caravan routes, identify Biblical sites, and generally find out what they could about the historical development of a hitherto seldom explored region" (James, Golden Warrior, 76). Lawrence, however, would write that Kitchener "insisted on the Palestine Exploration Fund's bringing out its record of our archaeological researching, p.d.q. as a whitewash" (O'Brien, 6). Lawrence remains "one of the most iconic figures of the early 20th century… As General Allenby, chief British commander in the Middle East during WWI, noted, Lawrence was first among equals: 'There is no other man I know,' he asserted, 'who could have achieved what Lawrence did'" (Smithsonian). First issue with "." after "1914-1915" on spine. Introduction by Lawrence. The maps were compiled by "Lawrence from the Survey materials drawn out by B.V. Darbishire. The plates are from photographs taken by both authors." Rare glassine sheets are still in place. With two rear leaves of publisher's advertisements; O'Brien A004C. Meyers 1. Sought after. •Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, Vol. IV, 1923 – 1925. Excavations on the Hill of Ophel, Jerusalem1923-1925, by Prof. R. A. S. Macalister and Rev. J. Garrow Duncan. No owner's signature or markings of any kind throughout book. Folded plans in pocket.
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