Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Relief-Plan [von] Jerusalem, by H.W. Altmüller. Published by Th. Fischer, Cassel (Germany), [1859].
A plaster relief map of Old Jerusalem and the surroundings, colored by hand. Margins are colored in brown (resembling a wooden frame).
33X26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many color peelings. Break (pasted) along the lower right corner. Most of the label is lacking. Wear and rubbing.
A plaster relief map of Old Jerusalem and the surroundings, colored by hand. Margins are colored in brown (resembling a wooden frame).
33X26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many color peelings. Break (pasted) along the lower right corner. Most of the label is lacking. Wear and rubbing.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $800
Unsold
Relief Map of Jerusalem, Originated and Made by Fr. Vester & Co., The American Colony Store. Jerusalem, [early 20th century].
A topographic model of the Old City of Jerusalem and the vicinity - colored plaster relief, with titles added by hand. The model is housed in an original box made of olive wood. Printed on the lid of the box is the inscription "Jerusalem" (English and Hebrew).
Box: 16.5X18 cm. Height: 5.5 cm. Good condition. Defects to wood (several breaks and missing pieces at corners of box). Slight defects to margins of relief. Stains to paper label in the box. Lacking screw from one of the hinges.
A topographic model of the Old City of Jerusalem and the vicinity - colored plaster relief, with titles added by hand. The model is housed in an original box made of olive wood. Printed on the lid of the box is the inscription "Jerusalem" (English and Hebrew).
Box: 16.5X18 cm. Height: 5.5 cm. Good condition. Defects to wood (several breaks and missing pieces at corners of box). Slight defects to margins of relief. Stains to paper label in the box. Lacking screw from one of the hinges.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Four souvenir albums portraying the country's flowers, in olive wood bindings with a carved Jerusalem Cross.
1-3. Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. Published by Ferdinand Vester. Jerusalem, [late 19th / early 20th century]. English.
Three albums with the country's flowers, with titles noting where the flowers were picked. On the binding of all three albums appears the inscription "Jerusalem" and on bindings of two appears the inscription "Yerushalem" in Hebrew.
Two small albums: approx.13.5X9 cm. Large album: 19.5X13 cm. Fair-good condition. Tissue guards are damaged, stained and partly lacking. Leaves with flowers are stained. Some worming. Two missing spines. Loose bindings. Open break (3X1 cm) at corner of the large album.
4. Flowers from the Holy Land. Published by Fr. Vester & Co., American Colony Stores, Jerusalem, [late 19th / early 20th century]. English, German and French.
Album with the country's flowers. On each spread appear pressed flowers and plants on one page and a colorful postcard on the facing page.
18.5X12 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and defects to leaves and to tissue guards. One tissue guard is missing. Several pressed flowers are missing pieces. Inscription on endpaper: "January 1918". Loose binding.
1-3. Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. Published by Ferdinand Vester. Jerusalem, [late 19th / early 20th century]. English.
Three albums with the country's flowers, with titles noting where the flowers were picked. On the binding of all three albums appears the inscription "Jerusalem" and on bindings of two appears the inscription "Yerushalem" in Hebrew.
Two small albums: approx.13.5X9 cm. Large album: 19.5X13 cm. Fair-good condition. Tissue guards are damaged, stained and partly lacking. Leaves with flowers are stained. Some worming. Two missing spines. Loose bindings. Open break (3X1 cm) at corner of the large album.
4. Flowers from the Holy Land. Published by Fr. Vester & Co., American Colony Stores, Jerusalem, [late 19th / early 20th century]. English, German and French.
Album with the country's flowers. On each spread appear pressed flowers and plants on one page and a colorful postcard on the facing page.
18.5X12 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and defects to leaves and to tissue guards. One tissue guard is missing. Several pressed flowers are missing pieces. Inscription on endpaper: "January 1918". Loose binding.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
1. Blumen vom Heilige Lande [Flowers from the Holy Land], [by Abraham Moses Luncz], Jerusalem, [late 19th century]. German and Hebrew.
Titles are printed in golden ink. The titles on the pages with flowers are in Hebrew and German and the descriptions are in German.
13X8.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Some pressed flowers are missing pieces. Stains and tears to leaves and tissue-guards. Cloth binding. Loose binding, damaged and unraveled at corners. Spine detached at one end.
2. Blumen vom Heilige Lande, "composed by Ramal" [Abraham Moses Luncz], Jerusalem, [late 19th century]. German and Hebrew.
Titles are printed in golden ink. The titles on the pages with flowers and the descriptions are both in German and in Hebrew. Olive wood binding inscribed "Yerushalem"(Hebrew) / "Jerusalem".
16.5X10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stains and creases to tissue-guards. One tissue-guard partly detached. Spine damaged at the ends.
3. Flowers from the Holy Land, edited by Abraham Moses Luncz. Published by Aron Zwebner, Jerusalem, [ca. early 20th century]. English.
Title page is printed in golden ink. Titles and descriptions are all in English. Cloth binding.
16X10 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Stains and tears to tissue-guards. Tissue-guards detached and lacking. Some pressed flowers are missing pieces. Binding slightly loose and worn.
Titles are printed in golden ink. The titles on the pages with flowers are in Hebrew and German and the descriptions are in German.
13X8.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Some pressed flowers are missing pieces. Stains and tears to leaves and tissue-guards. Cloth binding. Loose binding, damaged and unraveled at corners. Spine detached at one end.
2. Blumen vom Heilige Lande, "composed by Ramal" [Abraham Moses Luncz], Jerusalem, [late 19th century]. German and Hebrew.
Titles are printed in golden ink. The titles on the pages with flowers and the descriptions are both in German and in Hebrew. Olive wood binding inscribed "Yerushalem"(Hebrew) / "Jerusalem".
16.5X10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stains and creases to tissue-guards. One tissue-guard partly detached. Spine damaged at the ends.
3. Flowers from the Holy Land, edited by Abraham Moses Luncz. Published by Aron Zwebner, Jerusalem, [ca. early 20th century]. English.
Title page is printed in golden ink. Titles and descriptions are all in English. Cloth binding.
16X10 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Stains and tears to tissue-guards. Tissue-guards detached and lacking. Some pressed flowers are missing pieces. Binding slightly loose and worn.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $1,800
Unsold
Jerusalem, Fleurs De Terre Sainte, Flowers of The Holy Land, Blumen aus dem Heiligen Lande, large album with color prints and pressed flower arrangements. [Beirut?, ca. early 20th century].
The album contains seventeen prints of sites in Palestine (the Western Wall, the Mount of Olives, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Port, Bethlehem, Hebron, Haifa Bay and other sites), and seventeen pressed flower arrangements, mounted on facing pages.
Printed on the bottom margins of each print is the name of the site (in French). Some also bear the inscription: T. R. Dumas Et Fils Editeurs, Beyrouth (Syrie) [Tancrède Dumas?].
The album is bound in a fine olive wood binding with a leather spine. Carved on the front of the binding is a Jerusalem cross inside a colorful frame made with very delicate inlay work. Printed on the back binding is the inscription "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew, inside a frame identical to the one on the front binding.
Approx. 32X23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and defects (mostly to margins; the prints are clean). Small tears to margins. A few flowers and leaves are detached. Pen scribble on the margins of one of the leaves. Long tear to inner margins of front endpaper. Front binding detached, with a crack along its breadth. Piece missing from one of the corners of the back binding. Defects to spine.
The album contains seventeen prints of sites in Palestine (the Western Wall, the Mount of Olives, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Port, Bethlehem, Hebron, Haifa Bay and other sites), and seventeen pressed flower arrangements, mounted on facing pages.
Printed on the bottom margins of each print is the name of the site (in French). Some also bear the inscription: T. R. Dumas Et Fils Editeurs, Beyrouth (Syrie) [Tancrède Dumas?].
The album is bound in a fine olive wood binding with a leather spine. Carved on the front of the binding is a Jerusalem cross inside a colorful frame made with very delicate inlay work. Printed on the back binding is the inscription "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew, inside a frame identical to the one on the front binding.
Approx. 32X23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and defects (mostly to margins; the prints are clean). Small tears to margins. A few flowers and leaves are detached. Pen scribble on the margins of one of the leaves. Long tear to inner margins of front endpaper. Front binding detached, with a crack along its breadth. Piece missing from one of the corners of the back binding. Defects to spine.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Unsold
Souvenir from Jerusalem, collection of flowers and paintings from the Holy Places, by Yehiel Zvi Zimrinsky. Jerusalem, [second half of 1920s].
Album with pressed flowers from Palestine. Each spread portrays pressed flowers and plants, facing a color lithograph. The lithographs portray views of Tiberias, Jerusalem (including "University on Mount Scopus"), Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jordan River and the Dead Sea. The pages are titled in Hebrew, English and French.
At the end of the album - an additional title page, "Flowers from the Holy Land" (in English, French and German), with the publisher's name - H. N. Schechter. Bound in an olive wood binding with a carved image of the Dome of the Rock, the title "Temple Mount" (Hebrew) and, on both sides, "Jerusalem" in Hebrew and English.
Yehiel Zvi Zimrinsky was born in Russia in 1859, grew up in Alexandria and when still young relocated to Palestine. Was an olive wood craftsman and a businessman. He opened a "workshop for all kinds of olive wood" in Jerusalem and was involved in the development of the Yishuv. Died in 1933 and was buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery.
[13] leaves, 17.5X10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some tears. Break to one cardboard leaf.
Album with pressed flowers from Palestine. Each spread portrays pressed flowers and plants, facing a color lithograph. The lithographs portray views of Tiberias, Jerusalem (including "University on Mount Scopus"), Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jordan River and the Dead Sea. The pages are titled in Hebrew, English and French.
At the end of the album - an additional title page, "Flowers from the Holy Land" (in English, French and German), with the publisher's name - H. N. Schechter. Bound in an olive wood binding with a carved image of the Dome of the Rock, the title "Temple Mount" (Hebrew) and, on both sides, "Jerusalem" in Hebrew and English.
Yehiel Zvi Zimrinsky was born in Russia in 1859, grew up in Alexandria and when still young relocated to Palestine. Was an olive wood craftsman and a businessman. He opened a "workshop for all kinds of olive wood" in Jerusalem and was involved in the development of the Yishuv. Died in 1933 and was buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery.
[13] leaves, 17.5X10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some tears. Break to one cardboard leaf.
Category
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $4,000
Unsold
One hundred and forty eight photographs of Palestine, Sinai and Egypt by Francis Frith. Four parts in eight volumes: Sinai and Palestine; Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia; Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, Supplementary Volume. Published by William Mackenzie, London and Glasgow, [ca. 1862]. English. Second edition.
In each of the four parts appear thirty six photographs (each photograph is accompanied by a printed leaf with information about the photographed site), and a small photograph on each of the title pages.
Francis Frith (1822-1898), one of the most important early photographers of Palestine. In 1856 he sailed to Alexandria, and for nearly two years he went on photography journeys in Sinai and Palestine. Due to the local conditions, Frith had to carry the equipment on donkeys' backs from site to site, and develop the negatives right after he has taken the photographs, in tents which served as dark rooms. His works are considered the first professional photographs of Palestine.
Total of 148 photographs in eight volumes. Photographs - approx. 22.5X16 cm. Volumes - 43 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, creases and defects. Significant worming (the volumes were fumigated). Several tears. Original, gilt stamped bindings with leather spines. Gilt edges. Bindings are defected and worn, with worming. Some of the bindings are partly detached. One front binding is detached. Bookplates on inner side of front bindings.
In each of the four parts appear thirty six photographs (each photograph is accompanied by a printed leaf with information about the photographed site), and a small photograph on each of the title pages.
Francis Frith (1822-1898), one of the most important early photographers of Palestine. In 1856 he sailed to Alexandria, and for nearly two years he went on photography journeys in Sinai and Palestine. Due to the local conditions, Frith had to carry the equipment on donkeys' backs from site to site, and develop the negatives right after he has taken the photographs, in tents which served as dark rooms. His works are considered the first professional photographs of Palestine.
Total of 148 photographs in eight volumes. Photographs - approx. 22.5X16 cm. Volumes - 43 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, creases and defects. Significant worming (the volumes were fumigated). Several tears. Original, gilt stamped bindings with leather spines. Gilt edges. Bindings are defected and worn, with worming. Some of the bindings are partly detached. One front binding is detached. Bookplates on inner side of front bindings.
Category
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $800
Unsold
Album Fotografico delle Principali Vedute della Palestina. Printed by V. Bona, Torino (Italy), [19th century]. Italian and French.
Album with twenty photographs of sites in Palestine (unidentified photographer): Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Tower of David, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Valley of Jehoshaphat, and more), Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Nazareth, and other towns. Each photograph is accompanied by a description (the descriptions are printed on the pages facing the photographs, in French and Italian). An introduction in Italian and French opens the album.
[1] leaf, [4] pp + 20 photograph plates. Photographs: 17X12.5 cm. Album: approx. 29X22.5 cm. Fine binding with a printed title - "Album Della Palestina". Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains (to album leaves and some of the photographs). Defects to binding and tears at margins and spine.
Album with twenty photographs of sites in Palestine (unidentified photographer): Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Tower of David, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Valley of Jehoshaphat, and more), Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Nazareth, and other towns. Each photograph is accompanied by a description (the descriptions are printed on the pages facing the photographs, in French and Italian). An introduction in Italian and French opens the album.
[1] leaf, [4] pp + 20 photograph plates. Photographs: 17X12.5 cm. Album: approx. 29X22.5 cm. Fine binding with a printed title - "Album Della Palestina". Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains (to album leaves and some of the photographs). Defects to binding and tears at margins and spine.
Category
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Photographs of the Holy Land. Published by Boulos Méo, Jerusalem, [late 19th century].
Album with 36 photographs of sites and figures in Palestine by the photographer L. Fiorillo and by "American Colony" photographers (titled in the plates; some in French and some in French and English).
The album includes:
* Photographs of views and sites in Palestine, most of them by "American Colony" photographers (signed in the plates: "American Colony Jerusalem"). Among them, photographs of Jaffa, Ramla, Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and more), Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Sea and Tiberias.
* Photographs of local residents in traditional costumes, by the photographer L. Fiorillo. Among them: photographs of Jews in Jerusalem, Bedouins, Arab merchants, and more.
The album was published by Boulos Méo (see next item) and is bound in a fine olive-wood binding, with a leather spine; A "Jerusalem Cross" is carved on the front with the printed title "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew. On both sides of the binding are colorful frames created by miniature pieces of wood set in the binding.
36 photographs, mounted on the album leaves. Album: 21X14 cm. Good condition. Some photographs are faded. Stains (most photographs are clean). The first photograph is in fair condition. Tears and defects to spine. No tissue guards.
Album with 36 photographs of sites and figures in Palestine by the photographer L. Fiorillo and by "American Colony" photographers (titled in the plates; some in French and some in French and English).
The album includes:
* Photographs of views and sites in Palestine, most of them by "American Colony" photographers (signed in the plates: "American Colony Jerusalem"). Among them, photographs of Jaffa, Ramla, Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and more), Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Sea and Tiberias.
* Photographs of local residents in traditional costumes, by the photographer L. Fiorillo. Among them: photographs of Jews in Jerusalem, Bedouins, Arab merchants, and more.
The album was published by Boulos Méo (see next item) and is bound in a fine olive-wood binding, with a leather spine; A "Jerusalem Cross" is carved on the front with the printed title "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew. On both sides of the binding are colorful frames created by miniature pieces of wood set in the binding.
36 photographs, mounted on the album leaves. Album: 21X14 cm. Good condition. Some photographs are faded. Stains (most photographs are clean). The first photograph is in fair condition. Tears and defects to spine. No tissue guards.
Category
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Album a photographies de la Terre Sainte arrangées par Boulos Méo Jérusalem [Photo-album from the Holy Land, arranged by Boulos Méo, Jerusalem]. Jerusalem: Boulos Méo, [late 19th century].
Album with 48 photographs of sites in Palestine, among them the Old City of Jerusalem (Jaffa Gate, Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and more), Rachel's Tomb, Jordan River, Jaffa Port, and more. Most photographs were taken by the brothers Adelphi and Constantine Zangaki and are signed and titled in the plate. Two photographs were taken by Felix Bonfils (interior of the Dome of the Rock and a photograph of worshippers at the Western Wall).
The album is bound in a fine olive-wood binding, with a leather spine. On the front - a carved Jerusalem cross surrounded by a colorful frame created using miniature pieces of wood. On the back - the word "Jerusalem" (printed) in a frame identical to the one on the front binding.
The album was published by Boulos Méo, a store near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, established in 1872 by a family of Italian origin. Boulos Méo was opened as a store for Persian carpets and later expanded and sold antiquities, postcards, photo albums and various souvenirs from Palestine.
48 photographs, mounted on both sides of the thick album leaves. Album: approx. 36X28 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Several detached leaves. Some faded photographs. Stains (mainly at margins of leaves and tissue guards). Tears to margins of several leaves and tissue guards (some tissue guards are detached or partly detached). Slight defects to binding. Tears to spine and corners.
Album with 48 photographs of sites in Palestine, among them the Old City of Jerusalem (Jaffa Gate, Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and more), Rachel's Tomb, Jordan River, Jaffa Port, and more. Most photographs were taken by the brothers Adelphi and Constantine Zangaki and are signed and titled in the plate. Two photographs were taken by Felix Bonfils (interior of the Dome of the Rock and a photograph of worshippers at the Western Wall).
The album is bound in a fine olive-wood binding, with a leather spine. On the front - a carved Jerusalem cross surrounded by a colorful frame created using miniature pieces of wood. On the back - the word "Jerusalem" (printed) in a frame identical to the one on the front binding.
The album was published by Boulos Méo, a store near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, established in 1872 by a family of Italian origin. Boulos Méo was opened as a store for Persian carpets and later expanded and sold antiquities, postcards, photo albums and various souvenirs from Palestine.
48 photographs, mounted on both sides of the thick album leaves. Album: approx. 36X28 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Several detached leaves. Some faded photographs. Stains (mainly at margins of leaves and tissue guards). Tears to margins of several leaves and tissue guards (some tissue guards are detached or partly detached). Slight defects to binding. Tears to spine and corners.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Souvenirs d'Orient, Terre-Sainte, album pittoresque des sites, villes et ruins les plus remarquables de la Palestine / Photographié et édité par Félix Bonfils [Souvenirs from the Orient, the Holy Land, Photograph Album… Photographed and Edited by Felix Bonfils]. Alais (Alès, France), 1878.
"Souvenirs from the Orient - the Holy Land", an album in a small format containing thirty photographs of Palestine by Felix Bonfils. The photos are mounted on thick sheets; printed beneath each photo is its title (in French). Among the photo leaves are leaves with texts about the photographed sites (in French, English and German).
The photographed sites include: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Tower of David, the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Tomb of Absalom, the Dead Sea, Mount Tabor and more.
30 leaves of photographs + 30 text leaves. Photo size: 7.5X9 cm, album: 13.5X18 cm. Good condition. Stains (mostly to text leaves. A number of dark leaves). Light creases to leaves' upper corners. Red binding with leather spine and gilt decorations (binding rubbed). Gilt edges.
"Souvenirs from the Orient - the Holy Land", an album in a small format containing thirty photographs of Palestine by Felix Bonfils. The photos are mounted on thick sheets; printed beneath each photo is its title (in French). Among the photo leaves are leaves with texts about the photographed sites (in French, English and German).
The photographed sites include: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Tower of David, the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Tomb of Absalom, the Dead Sea, Mount Tabor and more.
30 leaves of photographs + 30 text leaves. Photo size: 7.5X9 cm, album: 13.5X18 cm. Good condition. Stains (mostly to text leaves. A number of dark leaves). Light creases to leaves' upper corners. Red binding with leather spine and gilt decorations (binding rubbed). Gilt edges.
Category
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
Souvenirs d'Orient, Album Pittoresque des sites, Villes et Ruins les plus remarquables de la Terre-Sainte / Photographié et édité par Félix Bonfils [Souvenirs from the Orient, photo album… photographed and edited by Felix Bonfils]. Alais (Alès, France). 1878.
"Souvenirs from the Orient", an album with one hundred and ten photographs from Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Turkey. The album contains 55 cardboard leaves; mounted on each leaf are two photographs, most of them titled by hand (in French). The album opens with an introduction in French by G. Charvet.
The album contains photographs of various sites in Jerusalem (Western Wall, Tower of David, Dome of the Rock, Gates of the Old City, and more), Jericho, Jaffa, Tiberias, Haifa, Cairo, Damascus, Alexandria, Athens and other towns, as well as photographs of the residents of the different towns in traditional garments (group of women in Jaffa, residents in Jerusalem, a woman from Bethlehem, Bedouins in Jericho, and more).
[2] leaves (title page and introduction), [55] leaves (two photographs on each leaf). Photographs: approx. 10X8 cm. Album: 29X16 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Slight stains and defects to some of the photographs. A number of photographs are slightly faded. Stains to album leaves. A number of leaves are partly detached. Damaged and worn binding, partly detached (spine is partly detached from album body).
"Souvenirs from the Orient", an album with one hundred and ten photographs from Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Turkey. The album contains 55 cardboard leaves; mounted on each leaf are two photographs, most of them titled by hand (in French). The album opens with an introduction in French by G. Charvet.
The album contains photographs of various sites in Jerusalem (Western Wall, Tower of David, Dome of the Rock, Gates of the Old City, and more), Jericho, Jaffa, Tiberias, Haifa, Cairo, Damascus, Alexandria, Athens and other towns, as well as photographs of the residents of the different towns in traditional garments (group of women in Jaffa, residents in Jerusalem, a woman from Bethlehem, Bedouins in Jericho, and more).
[2] leaves (title page and introduction), [55] leaves (two photographs on each leaf). Photographs: approx. 10X8 cm. Album: 29X16 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Slight stains and defects to some of the photographs. A number of photographs are slightly faded. Stains to album leaves. A number of leaves are partly detached. Damaged and worn binding, partly detached (spine is partly detached from album body).
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