Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Album in Olivewood Binding – Color Prints and Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land – Large Format

Opening: $600
Unsold
Fleurs De Terre Sainte, Flowers of The Holy Land, Blumen aus dem Heiligen Lande, Jerusalem. Large album with color prints and pressed flower arrangements. [Beirut?, ca. early 20th century]. The album features eighteen prints depicting sites in Palestine (the Western Wall, the Mount of Olives, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Port, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Dead Sea, Haifa Bay, and other sites), Baalbek and Damascus, and eighteen pressed flower arrangements, mounted on facing pages. Prints are titled at bottom (in French); some bear the inscription: "T. R. Dumas Et Fils Editeurs, Beyrouth (Syrie)" [Tancrède Dumas]. German, French and English captions beneath flower arrangements. Fine olivewood binding. A Jerusalem Cross is carved on the front board, surrounded by a wood marquetry border. The inscription "Jerusalem" is printed on the back board, within an identical frame. Approx. 23.5X32 cm. Good condition. Stains. Several tissue guards partly detached (one tissue guard detached). Minor blemishes to flower arrangements. Minor cracks and blemishes to binding. Loss to one corner of binding.
Postcards, Souvenirs of Palestine, Photography
Postcards, Souvenirs of Palestine, Photography