Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

"Souvenir from the Orient" – Photograph Album by Felix Bonfils – France, 19th Century

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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…] by Felix Bonfils. France: Alais (the author's publishing house), [1878?]. French, German and English.?A small-format album with thirty photographs of Palestine by Felix Bonfils. The photographs are mounted on thick leaves. A caption in French is printed beneath each photo. Between the leaves of photographs are leaves of text about the photographed sites (in French, English and German).?The photographed sites include: Jaffa; various sites of Jerusalem (the Western Wall, the Valley of Josaphat, David's Tomb, the Mosque of Omar on the Temple Mount, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Gethsemane and the Church of Saint Anne, and more), the Dead Sea, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Mount Carmel, and more.?[2], 30 leaves + 30 photographic plates. Photographs: 9.5X7.5 cm, album's leaves: 17X13 cm. Gilt edges. Good overall condition. Minor stains (especially on the text leaves). Pen writing on verso of one of the leaves and on the inside back binding. Red binding with gilt decorations, damaged and partially detached.
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