Auction 34 - The Arnie Druck Collections
Album of Eretz Israel Flowers + Map – Olive Wood Binding
Opening: $250
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Offering of Judea and Jerusalem, collection of flowers growing in the Holy Land. Jerusalem, no date, no publisher or printer, [1910s?].
Cardboard sheets with dried flowers, decoratively arranged. On each sheet appears the writing "Jerusalem" followed by a biblical verse and the geographic area in Eretz Israel represented by the flowers (Ephraim Mountains, Sharon, Carmel, Hermon, etc).
A "Borders of Israel map" in lithographic printing in four colors opens the album, "for the Four Mothers" (Leah, Rachel, Zilpa and Bilha).
Olive wood binding, an inlaid Magen David on the front cover and on the back cover appears an embossed golden writing "Flowers of Jerusalem". Title page is printed in golden and green ink. Leather spine with an embossed golden inscription "Flowers of Jerusalem". Gilded edges. To the best of our knowledge, both the album and the map are unknown bibliographically. [13] leaves + map, 11.5X16.5 cm. Good condition.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
Cardboard sheets with dried flowers, decoratively arranged. On each sheet appears the writing "Jerusalem" followed by a biblical verse and the geographic area in Eretz Israel represented by the flowers (Ephraim Mountains, Sharon, Carmel, Hermon, etc).
A "Borders of Israel map" in lithographic printing in four colors opens the album, "for the Four Mothers" (Leah, Rachel, Zilpa and Bilha).
Olive wood binding, an inlaid Magen David on the front cover and on the back cover appears an embossed golden writing "Flowers of Jerusalem". Title page is printed in golden and green ink. Leather spine with an embossed golden inscription "Flowers of Jerusalem". Gilded edges. To the best of our knowledge, both the album and the map are unknown bibliographically. [13] leaves + map, 11.5X16.5 cm. Good condition.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.