Jérusalem, Étude et Reproduction Photographique des Monuments de la Ville Sainte, by Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gide et J. Baudry, 1856. French. Two parts (text and plates) in one volume. Separate title page for each part.
"Jerusalem", 40 photographs by Auguste Salzmann. Including: photographs of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Tombs of the Kings, the Valley of Josaphat, the Valley of Hinnom, the Mosque of Omar, Jaffa Gate, and more. The photographs are bound together with a written study of the photographed sites (originally, the photograph plates and the study were printed in two separate volumes).
In 1853, the French photographer Auguste Salzmann (1824-1872) travelled to Palestine with the aim of documenting various sites, particularly in Jerusalem and its surroundings, and especially the discoveries of French archeologist Félicien de Saulcy. That year, De Saulcy had published his findings from an archeological study conducted in Palestine, in a book that aroused controversy and was received with some reservations. In an attempt to support the work of De Saulcy (to whom the present book is dedicated) Salzmann took about 200 photographs. This is considered a pioneer project in the field of archeological documentation using photography. Although Salzmann's goal was mostly scientific documentation, his photographs are also impressive in their artistic quality. The photographs were first published in 1854 in a book printed in a limited number of copies, followed two years later by the present edition.
[4], 92 pp + [3] plates; [6] pp, [4] plates, 42.5 cm. Binding with leather spine. Gilt edges. Fair condition. Foxing throughout the book, including on photographs (although about half of the photographs are clean). Printed on the title page of the first part (the study) is the title "Planches", and alongside it, in pencil, is the inscription "Etude". Damage to binding.

Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem / Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, a volume with fourteen photographs and a map out of the "Survey of Jerusalem" and "Survey of the Sinai Peninsula" by Captain Charles William Wilson (1863-1905). [London], 1865-1869. English.
In the first part of the volume - photographs from the "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" - Sebil Suleiman in the Old City, Western Wall, View of the Dome of the Rock, Hezekiah's Pool, David's Tomb, entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Gethsemane, as well as a large map of Jerusalem (linen backed).
In the second part of the volume (with a separate title page) - photographs from the "Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai" - desert landscapes, photograph of Oyun Musa (Moses Spring), group photograph of the expedition members, and more. All of the photographs were taken by James McDonald, photographer of Wilson's expedition to Palestine.
The Royal Engineers officer Charles William Wilson arrived in Palestine the first time late in 1864 as a member in a British engineering team that was appointed to assist the Ottoman regime in taking care of the serious sanitary problems of Jerusalem. The team's role was to check the area in order to improve the sewage system in the city (some claim that the team's work, was in fact to gather information about Palestine towards a British occupation). Wilson was commissioned to map Jerusalem. While mapping the city, Wilson was involved in archaeological excavations and research. In 1865 he published a map which is considered to be the first modern map of Jerusalem and also published the book "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" which summarized his work in the city. In the same year the
"Palestine Exploration Fund" was founded and on behalf of this fund Wilson embarked for the second exploration mission recorded in this volume - Survey of the Sinai Peninsula.
Total of 14 photographs (two are mounted on the title pages). [14] leaves + [1] map. Volume: 53 cm (a gold embossing on the front binding: "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem and Peninsula of Sinai"). Good condition. Stains (photographs are clean, stains to map). On several plates appear titles in pencil (in English). Binding with leather spine and corners (new). New endpapers. Bookplate on inner side of front binding. Slight defects to binding.
See: "First Photographs of Eretz Israel…". Editors: Eli Shiller and Menachem Levin with the participation of Dan Kiram. Jerusalem: "Ariel", 1989. Page 72.

Album with twenty photographs documenting the visit of Emperor Wilhelm II to Jerusalem in 1898, by photographers of the "American Colony". [Jerusalem, October 1898]. Most of the photographs are signed in the plate.
Photographs include: a photograph of the emperor and his entourage, mounted, passing through one of the portable gates of honor erected for the visit; photographs of the tent camp of the emperor and his entourage on HaNevi'im Street (including a photograph of the emperor, on horseback, beside a Turkish honor guard at the camp's exit); photograph at the entrance to the Dome of the Rock; photograph of the emperor and his spouse at the head of a procession heading out of the Church of the Redeemer; photographs from a procession down Jaffa Street; photograph from a visit to the Tombs of the Kings; group photograph showing, among others, Theodor Herzl; and more.
Most of the photographs were taken by photographers of the "American Colony" in Jerusalem, and most are signed in the plate: "American Colony, Jerusalem" [apparently, they were taken by Elijah Meyers and Frederick Vester]. The visit of the emperor to Palestine was the first event to be documented by the "American Colony" photographers in an organized manner and with commercial intent, marking the beginnings of the photography department of the "American Colony".
The photographs are mounted on leaves of an album bound in a fine olive-wood binding (with a carved decoration of the Dome of the Rock). At the end of the album are eight additional photographs by "American Colony" photographers: a view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Damascus Gate, Jaffa Gate, a view of the Temple Mount, Jaffa Port, and more (signed and titled in the plate).
In the course of October-November 1898 the German Emperor Wilhelm II visited the cities of the Ottoman Empire - Beirut, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa. This journey, whose main goals were strengthening Ottoman rule and supporting the status of the Protestant Church, is considered one of the central and most important events in the history of Palestine in the 19th century.
Preparations for the emperor's visit to Palestine already began in the summer of 1898, including major renovations and cleaning operations, installing a new telegraph line, and more. In anticipation of the emperor's arrival in Jerusalem a number of roads in the city were widened, and an opening in the wall was even cut near Jaffa Gate, to allow the emperor's carriage to pass. In addition, the city's streets, particularly in the area surrounding HaNevi'im Street (where a tent camp of the emperor and his entourage was to be pitched), were decorated with the flags of Germany and the Ottoman Empire and with portable gates of honor.
During his visit to Jerusalem, culminating in the ceremonial dedication of the Church of the Redeemer, the emperor also visited the German Colony, the Mount of Olives, the Christian Quarter, the Municipality, and other places, and, among other things, met with Theodor Herzl. He toured the city with his spouse (Empress Augusta Victoria), without a major entourage, on horseback or by carriage, followed by processions of persons of lesser rank and accompanied by mounted regiments and Kawas guards (Ottoman guards). Many tourists arrived in Jerusalem ahead of the visit, renting spots on roofs and balconies on streets where the processions were to pass.
Total of 28 photographs, approx. 11X15 cm, mounted on album leaves. Album: 13.5X19 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Most of the photographs are faded. Tissue guards between some of the album leaves (dark, stained and torn). Some of the tissue guards are detached. Tears and defects to album binding. Back binding detached. Handwritten inscription (Arabic) on the first (blank) leaf of the album.

Archive of the German-Jewish photographer Kurt Meyerowitz, containing over 150,000 negatives. Jerusalem and various places in Israel, mid-1950s to 1980s (mostly from 1960s and 1970s).
Kurt Meyerowitz was born in 1906 in Gelsenkirchen in the region of Westphalia, Germany. He received his first camera as a bar-mitzvah gift, and since that moment did not cease photographing throughout his entire life, although he had never studied photography. With the Nazi rise to power he escaped to France, wandered between a number of cities and finally found his way to Switzerland, where he lived until the end of the war.
In 1945 he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem, where he opened a photo lab called "Photo Emka", which became known as one of the leading, most professional photo labs in the city. Its clients included photographers Tim Gidal, Werner Braun, Alfred Bernheim and others. In those years Meyerowitz began to establish himself as an independent photographer, first in the service of photographic agencies and later for the JNF, the Knesset and the Foreign Ministry, the Youth Aliyah organization, Hadassah Hospital and other institutions.
The present archive contains documentation, extraordinary in its breadth, of various aspects of Israeli life in those years. Among other things, the collection includes:
* Thousands of negatives documenting the activities of the Israeli Knesset in the 1960s and 1970s, including negatives of David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Ben Zvi, Zalman Shazar, Ephraim Katzir, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon and others.
* Thousands of negatives documenting the visits of statesmen and notables to Israel, including negatives showing the visit of Richard Nixon in 1974, Margaret Thatcher's visit in 1976, Henry Kissinger's visit, Teddy Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, and hundreds of ambassadors and other persons.
* Numerous negatives showing the Israeli youth village; the Hadassah Medical Center at Ein Kerem; the signing of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Egypt at the end of the Yom Kippur War; IDF forces on the western bank of the Suez Canal; the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood in the 1950s; Jerusalem's Old City and the Western Wall following the Six-Day War; the funeral of S.Y. Agnon; Purim celebrations; and other subjects.
* Thousands of negatives of private studio photographs.
The negatives are stored in about 60 cardboard boxes and inserted in paper envelopes, most of them captioned, numbered and dated. Many include contact prints. In addition, the collection contains six catalog notebooks with notation of the works, their number and the date they were taken (the notebook notation does not include the entire collection, and part of it records earlier works).
Enclosed:
1. About 200 photographs (of different sizes), including photographs of the Western Wall after its occupation in the Six-Day War, granting of military decorations to outstanding soldiers, the return of POWs at the end of the Yom Kippur War, and more.
2. About 30 uncut negative rolls.
The rights to Meyerowitz's photographs will be transferred to the buyer of the archive.
Size and condition of negatives varies. Good overall condition. A small part of the negatives are in fair-poor condition, glued together, damaged or crumbling.
See:
1. Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928-1997, [Projektleitung]: Published by Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Bonn, 1997, pp. 330-331.
2. Photographers of Palestine, by Guy Raz. Tel Aviv: Mappa, 2003, p. 141.

Photograph album that belonged to journalist Robert (Bob) Gary, containing about 230 photographs documenting illegal immigrants to Palestine from the ship "Exodus" at a detention camp in Germany, and Holocaust survivors at displaced-persons camps and in various places in Germany.[Germany, 1947-1948].
Journalist Robert (Bob) Gary (1920-1987) was born in New York to Mina and Faivel Greenberg, who changed their surname to Gary immediately upon arriving in the U.S. from Romania in the early twentieth century. He studied at New York University, completing a B.A. in sociology and journalism. In early 1946 Gary was sent by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to report from Germany after World War II. After reaching Munich he passed through displaced-persons camps, interviewed survivors and reported on the Nuremberg trials. While there, he befriended emissaries from Palestine and even himself smuggled weapons, money and immigrants.
In 1947, after the British authorities refused to allow the immigrant ship "Exodus" to dock at Haifa and sent its passengers back to Europe, Gary succeeded in boarding one of the deported ships using forged identity papers (apparently in Hamburg), in order to live with the immigrants and report on their condition. As indicated by the present album, Gary also accompanied the Exodus immigrants to temporary detention camps in North Germany. In 1948 Gary met his future wife, who was sent to serve as a kindergarten teacher in the DP camps. From that time and until the 1980s Gary worked as a journalist and spokesman. For additional information on him, see enclosed material, and the Wikipedia entry on Robert Gary [in Hebrew].
The album includes:
* Photograph of a demonstration held in Hamburg. * Photograph of children and youth wearing hats embroidered with the inscription "Exodus 1947". * Photographs of daily life and activities at the detention camp in Hamburg (laundry, dancing and more). * Photograph of Exodus immigrants being led to trucks and trains (some stamped on the back with the stamp "Pressebild u Illustrationen Litzmann - Hamburg"), and more.
The album also contains many photographs documenting the DP camps, Jewish refugees throughout Germany, demonstrations and marches of Holocaust survivors (including personal photographs of Gary), illegal immigrant ships, and more; some are of a high photographic quality, but are not captioned or dated.
In addition, the album contains three paper items: * A "certificate" of an "Exodus" deported immigrant, with the name and photograph of Robert Gary. Issued at the Pfaffendorf camp, with the signature of Mordecai Rosman (one of the leaders of the Exodus immigrants) and a short dedication in Yiddish. This forged certificate enabled Gary to join the immigrants and accompany them to the detention camps. * A Hamburg Dock Pass made out in Gary's name, as representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. * A "People's Service Center" card, blank, printed in Munich in 1948.
Photograph size varies, 4.5X5.5 cm to 24X18 cm. Good condition. Some detached photographs. Cardboard album: 30.5X21.5 cm. Fair condition, cover loose and slightly worn. Torn spine.