| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6375 |  | Details | Owen, G. Frederick | 1942 |
| Foundational topographic birds eye view of Palestine |
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Owen, G. Frederick |
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| 1942 |
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| $1,200.00 | Owen--G--Frederick | Foundational-topographic-birds-eye-view-of-Palestine | Original, scarce <b>first-edition</b> foundational birds-eye view of Palestine from 1942 by author and Middle-East expert G. Frederick Owen (1897-1987). In 1942 a group of Zionists in the United States adopted a set of resolutions titled the <b>Biltmore Program</b>, calling for <b>open immigration to Palestine</b> and the establishment of <b>Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth</b>. Owen's 1942 small-scale view of Palestine pre-dates by six years the independence of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948.
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Owen's 1942 lithographed map of Palestine in Third Dimension was cited by UCLA's Gerry Hale as among 18 of the best Middle-East reference and wall maps available in the West (1972), and was the only map to focus on Palestine in Hale's list [1]. Owen's map was published in six editions (1942, 1942*, 1955, 1955, 1967 and 1981). In 1947 Owen designed and edited a similar but larger-scale bird-eye view "Jerusalem in Third Dimension." Relief is shown pictorially and by shading.
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A deep dive into WorldCat confirms only <b>four institutional holdings</b> of the 1942 first edition: LOC, BYU, Amherst, Harvard.
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Copyright 1942 by G. Frederic Owen. Published by Beacon Hill Press, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Palestine in Third Dimension Designed and Edited by G. Frederick Owen Member of the Palestine Oriental Society and the American School of Oriental Research
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Sources:
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[1] Hale, Gerry A. International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 3, no. 4, Cambridge University Press, 1972, pp. 505–08, http://www.jstor.org/stable/162501. |