Collection of Modern Maps of Palestine – The British Mandate and Late Ottoman Period - Survey of Palestine, the ...

Collection of Modern Maps of Palestine – The British Mandate and Late Ottoman Period - Survey of Palestine, the Jerusalem YMCA, Map of the Partition Plan for Palestine Published by the Jewish Chronicle and More
Eleven modern maps of Palestine, most of them from the British Mandate period. Palestine and Europe, late 19th century to mid-20th century.
1-4. Four maps by cartographer John Bartholomew (presumably, from the atlas "The Historical Geography of the Holy Land" by George Adam Smith): General map of Palestine; The Jezreel Valley and Lower Galilee; Samaria; Judea, the Shfela and Philistia (numbered I, IV, V, VI). London: Hodder and Stoughton and The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, [late 19th century or early 20th century]. English.
5. "Palestine, compiled after the Fischer and Guthe map by Yeshayahu Press and David Yellin, Jerusalem". Published by M. Dizengoff and B. Yaffe in Jaffa and "Jüdischer Verlag" in Berlin. [1920s].
6. "Excursion Map of Jerusalem and Middle Judaea / Jerusalem", double-sided map published by the Jerusalem YMCA: on one side, a color map of Jerusalem (in an ornamental frame) and on the other side, a map of trails and roads in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
Printing details on margins: Jerusalem Y.M.C.A., Blocks by A. Soskin, Syrian Orphanage Press, Jerusalem. [ca.1930s]. English.
7-9. "Palestine Survey Topographical Map", three maps published by the Survey of Palestine: Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem (numbered 1, 7 and 8; of a series of 14 maps covering the entire area of Palestine). Compiled, drawn and printed under the direction of Frederick John Salmon, head of the Survey in the years 1933-1938. Folded to form a booklet (illustrations on covers). [Palestine, 1930s]. English.
10. "The Jewish Chronicle Map of Palestine, produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, F.R.G.S", map of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine published by the Jewish Chronicle. Folded to form a booklet. On the cover, a small map of the Partition Plan. London, 1948.
11. "Emek Zevulun, Lands of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael ltd. and the Bayside Land Corporation ltd" / Drawn by Z. Friedlander, J. Lev & E. Ladny. 1946. English and Hebrew.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. Closed and open tears along edges and fold lines (some of them restored and reinforced with tape; mostly small). Handwritten inscriptions on two maps.