Auction 11 Israeli History and Culture
Jul 27, 2010 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 34:

Annuals of the Palestine Exploration Fund of Archeology, 1911-1915

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Annual – Palestine Exploration Fund, three volumes (annuals) published by the fund. London, 1911-1915.
Volumes summarizing the years: 1911, 1912-1913, 1914-1915. Contains articles on archeology , with many photographs and diagrams.
The third annual includes the study The Wilderness of Zin, by C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence . The British defense minister urged the fund to publicize this report as soon as possible to convince the Turks that the British operations in the Negev are only archeological, the opening remark of the annual that was published in the beginning of 1915, shows that the two authors were recruited into the army at the end of 1914 and were placed in Egypt for special missions.
3 volumes, 28.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing in the first and last leaves. Minor damage to covers.

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