Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
The Holy Land – Set of Glass Slides with Accompanying Booklet – Paris, 1891
Opening: $200
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Terre Saint, set of 25 glass slides with photographs of towns and sites in Palestine. Paris: G. Clement & Gilmer, 1891.
The slides depict Mount of Olives, Gethsemane, the Temple Mount, the Jaffa Gate, the Golden Gate, Bethlehem, Bethany, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea and more. A booklet is enclosed with the slides (French, titled "Terre Sainte, Voyage en Palestine & a Jerusalem") with explanatory notes for each slide. The edges of each slide are wrapped in paper tape and all have a numbered paper label corresponding with the number of the matching description in the enclosed booklet. Placed in a wooden box.
Slides: 8.5X10 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to paper labels. Booklet: 32, [1] pp., 20 cm. Fair condition. Stains and tears. Partly detached cover. Folded in three.
Booklet not in OCLC.
Postcards, Souvenirs of Palestine, Photography
Postcards, Souvenirs of Palestine, Photography