Levant.- Chesney (Lieut.-Colonel) A Map of Arabia and Syria Laid down chiefly from Original Surveys... [with 13 others related], detailed map centred on the Arabian Peninsula, engraved map by J .& C. Walker with full hand-colouring, 680 x 645 mm (26 3/4 x 25 3/8 in), laid onto linen, some minor offsetting and light surface dirt, minor handling creases, 1849; folding into original splicase with 13 other folding maps relating to Chesney's publication, including 'Map of the Countries Situated between the Rivers Nile and Indus serving as an Index to the work on the Expedition for the Survey of the Euphrates and Tigris Drawn from Materials furnished by Lieut. Col. Chesney', and 12 others focussed on the rivers Euphrates, Tigris, and Karun, engraved maps, various sizes, but each approx. 490 x 640 mm (19 1/4 x 25 1/4 in), laid onto linen, some surface dirt and damp-stains, the lateter mainly visible verso, some light offsetting, folding into original cloth slipcase, spine gilt, bootom of case missing, very worn, 4to, 1850

⁂ Important collection of 14 maps from Chesney's "The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus", published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850.