Mapah Derech Emet, map of Eretz Israel indicating the travels of the Jewish people through the desert, the territories of the tribes and new Jewish colonies, drawn by Avigdor Malkov. Warsaw, 1899. Second edition. Hebrew and some Russian.
Map of Eretz Israel oriented as is typical in early maps, with the east at the top of the map. Both ancient and modern information are represented on the map - markings of the travels of the Jewish people through the desert after the Exodus, alongside new Jewish colonies such as Hadera, Kfar Saba, Yehud, Motza and more, some of which may have never before been recorded on a map, as well as the Jaffa-Jerusalem train line (inaugurated 1892, two years before the first edition of this map was published) and the Suez Canal.
Author's description of the map in upper right corner. Russian title, legend and scale bar in lower left corner, a second scale bar in upper right corner. Verses and quotations from prayers on the longing for Redemption and the return to Eretz Israel are printed around the map.
Map: approx. 78X52.5 cm. Fair condition. Browned paper. Map dissected in 20 sections and mounted on linen (for folding). Tears and minor open tears. Framed, approx. 88.5X63 cm.
Laor 895 (first edition, 1894; this edition not recorded).
Reference: Hatishbi, Ariel, ed., Holy Land in Maps. Jerusalem: Israel Museum and Ministry of Defense, 2001. P. 134. Hebrew.