Palästina in Bild und Wort, Ausgewählte Photochroms [Palestine in Picture and Word, Selected Photochrom Photographs]. Zurich: Photoglob Co., [1901]. German. Two portfolios.
Two portfolios with thirty-three photochrom photographs of views and sites in Palestine; mostly of Jerusalem and its surroundings. The photographs depict the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Tower of David (flying an Ottoman flag), the Foundation Stone, the Dead Sea, the Jordan River, Bitaniya, Jericho, Jaffa, Ramla, Bethlehem, Hebron and more. The photographs are mounted on card mounts and captioned by hand (German) on the bottom of the mounts.
The first portfolio contains fifteen photographs, all of them accompanied by explanatory leaves by the priest Arnold Rüegg (1856-1933), a lecturer at the theological faculty of the Zurich University. The second portfolio contain eighteen photographs, accompanied by three explanatory leaves (the rest of the explanatory leaves are missing).
33 photographs: 22X16.5 cm, on 32X24.5 cm mounts. + [20] leaves (explanatory leaves and title pages. Some of the explanatory leaves are missing): 29 cm. Good condition. Stains (mostly to margins of mounts, title pages and explanatory leaves). Minor blemishes. Several tears to margins of explanatory leaves. Handwritten headings. Original gold-tooled portfolios (stained and damaged).