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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $1,300
Sold for: $1,625
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1. Map of Western Palestine in 26 sheets from surveys conducted for the committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by Lieuts. C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener, R. E. during the Years 1872-1877. Printed by the Ordnance Survey Office, London, 1880. English.
Map of Palestine, from Tyre to Beer Sheba, large scale (1:63,360), consisting of 26 separate sheets. The shoreline, large settlements and streams are colored by hand.
26 plates, [1] title page and [1] legend. 68.5X58.5 cm. Fair-good overall condition. Tears and open tears, repaired. Wear and stains. Each plate is inserted in a transparent plastic cover, sealed. The plates are inserted in a cloth-covered cardboard case (new; lacking the original folder).
2. The Survey of Western Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography and Archaeology, by Lieut. C. R. Conder, R. E., and Lieut. H. h. Kitchener, R. E. Published by The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, London, 1881-1883. Three volumes. English.
A book describing in great detail the aforementioned map and adding much information about it. The chapters correspond to the map sheets and each chapter tells about the area of the country presented in the map. The books are accompanied by numerous plates.
Vol I: X, 420 pp + [3] plates. Vol II: VII, [1], 445 pp + [23] plates, Vol. III: VII, [1], 450 pp + [21] plates. 28 cm. Good condition. Many stains. Sheets uncut at upper edges. Some tears. Original bindings, defected and worn, restored (professional restorations at spines and at the connection of the endpapers to body of books).
Map of Palestine, from Tyre to Beer Sheba, large scale (1:63,360), consisting of 26 separate sheets. The shoreline, large settlements and streams are colored by hand.
26 plates, [1] title page and [1] legend. 68.5X58.5 cm. Fair-good overall condition. Tears and open tears, repaired. Wear and stains. Each plate is inserted in a transparent plastic cover, sealed. The plates are inserted in a cloth-covered cardboard case (new; lacking the original folder).
2. The Survey of Western Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography and Archaeology, by Lieut. C. R. Conder, R. E., and Lieut. H. h. Kitchener, R. E. Published by The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, London, 1881-1883. Three volumes. English.
A book describing in great detail the aforementioned map and adding much information about it. The chapters correspond to the map sheets and each chapter tells about the area of the country presented in the map. The books are accompanied by numerous plates.
Vol I: X, 420 pp + [3] plates. Vol II: VII, [1], 445 pp + [23] plates, Vol. III: VII, [1], 450 pp + [21] plates. 28 cm. Good condition. Many stains. Sheets uncut at upper edges. Some tears. Original bindings, defected and worn, restored (professional restorations at spines and at the connection of the endpapers to body of books).
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $575
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Palestine, from the Surveys Conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Other Sources, a map edited by George Armstrong, Charles W. Wilson and C. R. [Claude Reignier] Conder. Printed for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. London, 1890.
The map is divided into 106 separate sections and is pasted to four linen sheets (each linen sheet is folded into a boklet). On the outer side of each of the booklets appear bookplates and stickers with numbering written by hand. On one of the booklets - a pasted sheet with a drawing explaining how to assemble the map and the content of the sections, handwritten (English).
The entire map: approx. 245X173 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and defects. Original slipcase with a gilt title: "P.E.F. Survey Map of Palestine".
The map is divided into 106 separate sections and is pasted to four linen sheets (each linen sheet is folded into a boklet). On the outer side of each of the booklets appear bookplates and stickers with numbering written by hand. On one of the booklets - a pasted sheet with a drawing explaining how to assemble the map and the content of the sections, handwritten (English).
The entire map: approx. 245X173 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and defects. Original slipcase with a gilt title: "P.E.F. Survey Map of Palestine".
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
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"Tzurat HaBayit" / "Mapat Eretz Israel uGvuloteha", a plate from "Kuntress Tzurat HaBayit" in the Bible edition printed in Livorno by A.Y. Castillo and E. Sa'adon [Livorno, ca.1782].
A plan of the Temple interior ("Tzurat HaBayit") is printed on the right, with a legend describing the places marked on the plan ("Maftechot…"). On the left side of the plate are two maps - "Future Division of Eretz Israel" and "Division of Eretz Israel and its borders" (schematic map of Palestine with the Tribal territories). An additional legend is printed below the two maps - "For knowing the borders and the tribal territories" (Hebrew).
Leaf: 54.5X41 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks. Stains. Restored defects and tears at margins. Margins were cut unevenly, at the edge of the print, and were enlarged by an addition of a paper frame (professional restoration).
See Laor 877.
A plan of the Temple interior ("Tzurat HaBayit") is printed on the right, with a legend describing the places marked on the plan ("Maftechot…"). On the left side of the plate are two maps - "Future Division of Eretz Israel" and "Division of Eretz Israel and its borders" (schematic map of Palestine with the Tribal territories). An additional legend is printed below the two maps - "For knowing the borders and the tribal territories" (Hebrew).
Leaf: 54.5X41 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks. Stains. Restored defects and tears at margins. Margins were cut unevenly, at the edge of the print, and were enlarged by an addition of a paper frame (professional restoration).
See Laor 877.
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![Navigatio Salomonis Ophiritica illustrate by Martino Lipenio (Martin Lipen). [Printed by Andrea Hartmann, Wittenberg, 1660].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/45.jpg "Research on the Subject of the Land of \"Ophir\" - Germany, 17th Century")
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,000
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Navigatio Salomonis Ophiritica illustrate by Martino Lipenio (Martin Lipen). [Printed by Andrea Hartmann, Wittenberg, 1660]. Latin, some Hebrew, German and Greek.
A research book about the Land of Ophir mentioned in the bible, by the German researcher and bibliographer Martin Lipen (1630-1692). Lipen's research is based on a variety of sources, including the bible, studies of Arab researchers from the Middle Ages and studies of travelers of his generation. The book deals, among others, with various assumptions about the location of Ophir (among them one assumption that Ophir is located in South America), and the local flora and fauna. The book opens with an illustrated title page (engraving).
The Land of Ophir is mentioned several times in the bible as the land from which gold and other treasures were imported to Palestine. The treasures found in Ophir aroused much interest among European travelers and researchers who attempted to identify its location. The hypothesis common today identifies Ophir in the Arab Peninsula or in the Horn of Africa.
[47] leaves, 826, [2] pp (slightly mispaginated), approx. 12 cm. Good condition. Stains. Two leaves are not cut at margins. Margins of illustrated title page are trimmed, affecting the engraving and the printer's details and year of printing. Vellum binding, with gilt embossing on front. Bookplate on inside of front binding.
A research book about the Land of Ophir mentioned in the bible, by the German researcher and bibliographer Martin Lipen (1630-1692). Lipen's research is based on a variety of sources, including the bible, studies of Arab researchers from the Middle Ages and studies of travelers of his generation. The book deals, among others, with various assumptions about the location of Ophir (among them one assumption that Ophir is located in South America), and the local flora and fauna. The book opens with an illustrated title page (engraving).
The Land of Ophir is mentioned several times in the bible as the land from which gold and other treasures were imported to Palestine. The treasures found in Ophir aroused much interest among European travelers and researchers who attempted to identify its location. The hypothesis common today identifies Ophir in the Arab Peninsula or in the Horn of Africa.
[47] leaves, 826, [2] pp (slightly mispaginated), approx. 12 cm. Good condition. Stains. Two leaves are not cut at margins. Margins of illustrated title page are trimmed, affecting the engraving and the printer's details and year of printing. Vellum binding, with gilt embossing on front. Bookplate on inside of front binding.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
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Sinai Photographed, or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Wilderness, by Charles Forster. London: Richard Bentley, 1862. English.
A study seeking to prove the veracity of the Exodus story according to numerous Nabatean inscriptions found in the Sinai Desert. The inscriptions were documented by French scholar Lottin de Laval during his voyage in the Sinai Desert and some were published in his book, Voyage dans la péninsule arabique du Sinai et l’Egypt moyenne (1855-1859). The author of the present study, Forster, focused on the inscriptions that, according to him, were written by the Israelites, and presented translations of these inscriptions that accord with the story of the Exodus as told in the Bible. Later scholars proved that Forster allowed himself much poetic license in their translation, and even drew farfetched conclusions without a sound basis.
The book contains 18 photographs of the castings that document the inscriptions (taken by photographer A. J. Brown), mounted on plates; a photographed portrait of the author; four lithographic plates of Sinai views; numerous reconstructions of inscriptions (according to castings prepared by Victor Lottin de Laval); the map of the Israelites journeys in the desert ("Transitus Israelitarum per Mare Rubrum"), after the book by Peter Goldschmidt (ca. 1711); and a facsimile of a letter received by the author from the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley.
XX, 352 pp + [1] plate with a portrait of the author + [18] photograph plates + [4] lithographic plates + [1] map + [1] engraving + [1] letter facsimile, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some tears, most repaired with adhesive tape. Good condition. Foxing. Non-original endpapers. Slight defects to binding.
A study seeking to prove the veracity of the Exodus story according to numerous Nabatean inscriptions found in the Sinai Desert. The inscriptions were documented by French scholar Lottin de Laval during his voyage in the Sinai Desert and some were published in his book, Voyage dans la péninsule arabique du Sinai et l’Egypt moyenne (1855-1859). The author of the present study, Forster, focused on the inscriptions that, according to him, were written by the Israelites, and presented translations of these inscriptions that accord with the story of the Exodus as told in the Bible. Later scholars proved that Forster allowed himself much poetic license in their translation, and even drew farfetched conclusions without a sound basis.
The book contains 18 photographs of the castings that document the inscriptions (taken by photographer A. J. Brown), mounted on plates; a photographed portrait of the author; four lithographic plates of Sinai views; numerous reconstructions of inscriptions (according to castings prepared by Victor Lottin de Laval); the map of the Israelites journeys in the desert ("Transitus Israelitarum per Mare Rubrum"), after the book by Peter Goldschmidt (ca. 1711); and a facsimile of a letter received by the author from the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley.
XX, 352 pp + [1] plate with a portrait of the author + [18] photograph plates + [4] lithographic plates + [1] map + [1] engraving + [1] letter facsimile, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some tears, most repaired with adhesive tape. Good condition. Foxing. Non-original endpapers. Slight defects to binding.
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![Mission de Phénicie [Phoenician Expedition], by Ernest Renan. Paris, 1864. French. Text volume only. A book describing](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/47.jpg "\"Mission de Phénicie\" - Ernest Renan - Paris, 1864")
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
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Mission de Phénicie [Phoenician Expedition], by Ernest Renan. Paris, 1864. French. Text volume only.
A book describing the archaeological mission of the French historian and archaeologist Ernest Renan (1823-1892) to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. During this mission he discovered Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian inscriptions, which were published in this book. A volume with 70 plates (illustrations, maps and drawings) was published to accompany this book.
[2] leaves, 884 pp, [2] leaves, 35.5 cm. Good condition. Significantly stained. Not all of the sheets were opened at upper margins. Binding with leather spine. Slight defects and tears to binding.
A book describing the archaeological mission of the French historian and archaeologist Ernest Renan (1823-1892) to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. During this mission he discovered Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian inscriptions, which were published in this book. A volume with 70 plates (illustrations, maps and drawings) was published to accompany this book.
[2] leaves, 884 pp, [2] leaves, 35.5 cm. Good condition. Significantly stained. Not all of the sheets were opened at upper margins. Binding with leather spine. Slight defects and tears to binding.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
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Hébron, le Haram el-Khalil, Sépulture des Patriarches, by L. H. Vincent, E. G. H. Mackay & F. M. Abel. Paris: Editions Ernest Leroux, 1923. French.
A book and a folder of prints - research about the history and architecture of the Cave of the Patriarchs, by the Dominican archaeologists Louis Hugues Vincent and Félix-Marie Abel, both from the French School for Archaeology and Bible in Jerusalem together with Ernest Mackay, director of antiquities on behalf of the Mandate administration.
Book: VI, 256, [1] pp, 39 cm. Good condition. Unopened sheets. Stains. Creases. Folder is worn and fragile, with creases and tears. Glue at spine is crisp and disintegrating.
Folder of plates: XXVIII plates, 39 cm. Some are folded. Good condition. Significant worming defects. Stains, creases. Folder's strings are missing.
A book and a folder of prints - research about the history and architecture of the Cave of the Patriarchs, by the Dominican archaeologists Louis Hugues Vincent and Félix-Marie Abel, both from the French School for Archaeology and Bible in Jerusalem together with Ernest Mackay, director of antiquities on behalf of the Mandate administration.
Book: VI, 256, [1] pp, 39 cm. Good condition. Unopened sheets. Stains. Creases. Folder is worn and fragile, with creases and tears. Glue at spine is crisp and disintegrating.
Folder of plates: XXVIII plates, 39 cm. Some are folded. Good condition. Significant worming defects. Stains, creases. Folder's strings are missing.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $1,800
Sold for: $2,250
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Twenty seven plans - "Urban Assessment Block Plan" - mapping urban blocks and plots in neighborhoods and quarters in Hebron, 1937. English.
Plans of blocks in a number of neighborhoods in the town, most of them Arab neighborhoods (one plan shows the area of the Jewish neighborhoods - "Harat El Yahud Qtr"). Leaves with handwritten comments (in English) are attached to most of the plans. Handwritten inscriptions on some plans.
The mapping was done as part of a survey by the British Mandate Government in 1930, and was corrected and updated during the 1930s.
Total of 27 sheets, average size: 66X56 cm. Fair-good overall condition. Stains. Tears and creases.
Plans of blocks in a number of neighborhoods in the town, most of them Arab neighborhoods (one plan shows the area of the Jewish neighborhoods - "Harat El Yahud Qtr"). Leaves with handwritten comments (in English) are attached to most of the plans. Handwritten inscriptions on some plans.
The mapping was done as part of a survey by the British Mandate Government in 1930, and was corrected and updated during the 1930s.
Total of 27 sheets, average size: 66X56 cm. Fair-good overall condition. Stains. Tears and creases.
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![Ansichten von Palästina oder dem heiligen Lande [Views of Palestine or the Holy Land]. Leipzig: Baumgärtnersche Buchhan](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/50_1.jpg "Views of Palestine - Engravings after Luigi Mayer - Leipzig, Early 19t")
![Ansichten von Palästina oder dem heiligen Lande [Views of Palestine or the Holy Land]. Leipzig: Baumgärtnersche Buchhan](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/50_2.jpg "Views of Palestine - Engravings after Luigi Mayer - Leipzig, Early 19t")
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March 20, 2018
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Ansichten von Palästina oder dem heiligen Lande [Views of Palestine or the Holy Land]. Leipzig: Baumgärtnersche Buchhandlung, [1810-1814]. German.
A book which includes thirty six engravings after paintings by the Italian-German artist Luigi Mayer (1755-1803). The engravings depict views, figures and sites in Palestine (view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Pool of Bethesda, Tomb of Absalom, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias, and more). Each engraving is titled in German and French and is accompanied by a text composed by the German theologian Johann Georg Rosenmüller.
20, [3]-19, [3]-18 pp + XXXVI engraved plates, 39.5X23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains throughout the book. Creases and slight defects. Ink stamp on front endpaper. Damaged and rubbed cardboard binding (with tears).
A book which includes thirty six engravings after paintings by the Italian-German artist Luigi Mayer (1755-1803). The engravings depict views, figures and sites in Palestine (view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Pool of Bethesda, Tomb of Absalom, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias, and more). Each engraving is titled in German and French and is accompanied by a text composed by the German theologian Johann Georg Rosenmüller.
20, [3]-19, [3]-18 pp + XXXVI engraved plates, 39.5X23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains throughout the book. Creases and slight defects. Ink stamp on front endpaper. Damaged and rubbed cardboard binding (with tears).
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $2,000
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Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, Between the Years 1803 and 1807, by Ali Bey. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1816. Two volumes. English. First English edition.
Description of the travels of the Spanish traveler Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich in Africa and in the Middle East. Accompanied by 89 engraved plates: portrait of the author, four folding maps (a map depicting the route of his travels, map of Morocco, map of North Africa and a map of the Arab peninsula and the Red Sea), and 84 additional plates (some folding). The plates were bound, in both volumes, at the beginning, before the text. Two plates are missing.
Among the engravings: plans and drawings of views and various sites in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Alexandria, Mecca (folding plan of the town), Jerusalem (large folding plan of El-Aqsa mosque, and a plan of the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), Nazareth (Mount of Precipice), and more.
Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich (1767-1818), born in Barcelona, stayed in Morocco between the years 1803-1805 pretending to be a Muslim, descendant of the Abbasid caliphs (for that purpose he adopted the name Ali Bey el-Abbasi). After leaving Morocco he made a pilgrimage to Mecca (on his way there he passed through Tripoli, Cyprus and Egypt), and later on he visited Jerusalem, Syria and Constantinople. In Constantinople he aroused, for the first time, the suspicion that he is not Muslim and therefore had to terminate his tour and return to Spain. By pretending to be a Muslim Ali Bey succeeded in entering sites that were closed for non-Muslims, among them Mecca, the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs and his descriptions of these sites are most probably among the first descriptions published for the European public at the time.
Vol. I: [1] engraved plate (author's portrait), XLII pp, [44] engraved plates, 339 pp. Two plates are missing. Vol II: [1] engraved plate (folding map), IX pp, [43] engraved plates, 373, [2] pp, 29 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Many stains on the leaves and the plates. Slight defects and tears at margins of leaves and some of the plates. Uncut sheets (at upper margins) in Vol II. New bindings and endpapers. Bookplate on the inner side of the front cover of Volume I.
Description of the travels of the Spanish traveler Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich in Africa and in the Middle East. Accompanied by 89 engraved plates: portrait of the author, four folding maps (a map depicting the route of his travels, map of Morocco, map of North Africa and a map of the Arab peninsula and the Red Sea), and 84 additional plates (some folding). The plates were bound, in both volumes, at the beginning, before the text. Two plates are missing.
Among the engravings: plans and drawings of views and various sites in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Alexandria, Mecca (folding plan of the town), Jerusalem (large folding plan of El-Aqsa mosque, and a plan of the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), Nazareth (Mount of Precipice), and more.
Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich (1767-1818), born in Barcelona, stayed in Morocco between the years 1803-1805 pretending to be a Muslim, descendant of the Abbasid caliphs (for that purpose he adopted the name Ali Bey el-Abbasi). After leaving Morocco he made a pilgrimage to Mecca (on his way there he passed through Tripoli, Cyprus and Egypt), and later on he visited Jerusalem, Syria and Constantinople. In Constantinople he aroused, for the first time, the suspicion that he is not Muslim and therefore had to terminate his tour and return to Spain. By pretending to be a Muslim Ali Bey succeeded in entering sites that were closed for non-Muslims, among them Mecca, the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs and his descriptions of these sites are most probably among the first descriptions published for the European public at the time.
Vol. I: [1] engraved plate (author's portrait), XLII pp, [44] engraved plates, 339 pp. Two plates are missing. Vol II: [1] engraved plate (folding map), IX pp, [43] engraved plates, 373, [2] pp, 29 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Many stains on the leaves and the plates. Slight defects and tears at margins of leaves and some of the plates. Uncut sheets (at upper margins) in Vol II. New bindings and endpapers. Bookplate on the inner side of the front cover of Volume I.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,063
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La Terre Sainte / vues & monuments recueilis par David Roberts, avec une description historique sur chaque planche. Brussels: Sociétédes beaux-arts, 1843. French.
A large format volume with 30 lithographs after paintings by David Roberts, and 30 small additional lithographs integrated into the text. Lithographed title page. Gilt edges.
[64] leaves (one leaf may be is lacking at the beginning or the end of the volume), 54 cm. Good condition. Tissue guards are fragile and slightly torn. Lacking one tissue guard. Open tear to one tissue guard and restoration with acid-free adhesive tape of one leaf. Significant foxing. A number of gatherings are loose. Disintegrating glue at spine. Non-original binding.
A large format volume with 30 lithographs after paintings by David Roberts, and 30 small additional lithographs integrated into the text. Lithographed title page. Gilt edges.
[64] leaves (one leaf may be is lacking at the beginning or the end of the volume), 54 cm. Good condition. Tissue guards are fragile and slightly torn. Lacking one tissue guard. Open tear to one tissue guard and restoration with acid-free adhesive tape of one leaf. Significant foxing. A number of gatherings are loose. Disintegrating glue at spine. Non-original binding.
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![Album von Jerusalem [Jerusalem album]. Lithographic printing, W. Zoeller, Vienna, [1866]. German. A book in album format, wit](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/53.jpg "\"Jerusalem Album\" - Lithographs after Photographs by Alois Payer - Vie")
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
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Album von Jerusalem [Jerusalem album]. Lithographic printing, W. Zoeller, Vienna, [1866]. German.
A book in album format, with 25 lithographs after photographs by Alois Payer. Twenty two of the lithographs depict the city of Jerusalem, and the others depict Bethlehem. Below each lithograph appears a printed legend for the sites marked with numbers.
Alois Payer was the official photographer of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. The photographs in this book were taken during Payer's visit to Palestine in 1865, and were dedicated to the Emperor.
Among the photographs taken by Fayer in Jerusalem, especially interesting are those depicting Jerusalem outside the walls (photographs at that time depicted mainly the holy sites). His photograph of Mishkenot Sha'ananim at its early days (plate no. XXII in the book) is one of the earliest and most important photographs of this neighborhood.
Enclosed: a folded leaf with the title of the book and captions in French for the 25 lithographs.
[2] leaves, XXV plates, 41.5X29 cm. Good-fair condition. Numerous stains throughout the book. Slight creases and defects. Tears to first leaf (with dedication to Emperor Franz Joseph), repaired with pasted pieces of paper. New binding and endpapers.
Literature: "First Photographs of Eretz Israel…". Editors: Eli Shiller and Menachem Levin with the participation of Dan Kiram. Jerusalem: "Ariel", 1989. p. 66.
A book in album format, with 25 lithographs after photographs by Alois Payer. Twenty two of the lithographs depict the city of Jerusalem, and the others depict Bethlehem. Below each lithograph appears a printed legend for the sites marked with numbers.
Alois Payer was the official photographer of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. The photographs in this book were taken during Payer's visit to Palestine in 1865, and were dedicated to the Emperor.
Among the photographs taken by Fayer in Jerusalem, especially interesting are those depicting Jerusalem outside the walls (photographs at that time depicted mainly the holy sites). His photograph of Mishkenot Sha'ananim at its early days (plate no. XXII in the book) is one of the earliest and most important photographs of this neighborhood.
Enclosed: a folded leaf with the title of the book and captions in French for the 25 lithographs.
[2] leaves, XXV plates, 41.5X29 cm. Good-fair condition. Numerous stains throughout the book. Slight creases and defects. Tears to first leaf (with dedication to Emperor Franz Joseph), repaired with pasted pieces of paper. New binding and endpapers.
Literature: "First Photographs of Eretz Israel…". Editors: Eli Shiller and Menachem Levin with the participation of Dan Kiram. Jerusalem: "Ariel", 1989. p. 66.
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