Lot 320
Large Album Bound in Olivewood – "Pressed Wild Flowers and Colored Views of The Holy Land" – Product of the American Colony Souvenir Shop, Jerusalem
Pressed Wild Flowers and Colored Views of The Holy Land. Jerusalem: Fr. Vester & co., the American Colony Store, [early 20th century]. English, French and German.
Large album (29.5X22 cm.) with fifteen color prints of photographs of the country –Mount of Olives, the Western Wall, The Dome of the Rock, Rachel's Tomb, the Jordan River, Tiberias and elsewhere; each print with arrangements of pressed flowers on facing page. The album is bound in a fine olivewood binding. Front board carved with a Jerusalem Cross within a polychrome wood marquetry border. Back board with an identical border surrounding the printed inscription "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew. Margin of title page inscribed by hand and dated November 5, 1910, Jerusalem (English).
[1], 15 ff., approx. 29.5X22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Detached or missing flowers to some arrangements. Last leaf and binding partly detached. Cracks to binding (some loss to marquetry border). Tears to spine (amateurishly restored).
