Private Photo Album with Photographs of Jerusalem - James McDonald - England, 1865 - Wilson's "Survey of Jerusalem"

Private album prepared by a soldier in the Royal Engineers of the British army, with 41 photographs of Jerusalem and essays related to the work of the "Palestine Exploration Fund". [England, ca. 1865].
Album bound as a book, in red leather binding, gilt stamped. On the front cover - the title "Jerusalem 1865". On the front endpaper appears a handwritten dedication (in English) from a soldier in the British Royal Engineers (P. McIntosh). It is possible that the album was prepared by a member of the British engineering team that arrived in Palestine in 1864, with engineer Charles William Wilson, to take care of the sanitary problems in Jerusalem.
The album contains:
* Two printed essays related to the "Jerusalem Survey" and to the British work around Jerusalem (bound in the beginning of the album): Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, February 16, 1866. Summary of speech by Colonel Henry James on the subject of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem; Report on the Levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea by Colonel Henry James.
* 41 photographs of Jerusalem, taken for the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem of Charles William Wilson.
Among the photographs: photographs of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, Hinnom Valley, Tomb of Absalom and Tomb of Zechariah, Pool of Bethesda, Robinson Arch, and more. The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves.
Apparently these photographs were taken by James McDonald, photographer of Wilson's survey of Palestine. Some of the photographs appeared in the book "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" which was published in 1865 and summed up the work of Wilson in Jerusalem, and some were probably not printed in the book.
[27] leaves. Photographs: approx. 7X10 cm, album: 21 cm. Good overall condition. Stains to all of the leaves (photographs are in good condition). Binding rubbed and defected.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.