Ansichten von Palästina und den Jüdischen Colonien [Views from Palestine and its Jewish Colonies], "Photographs and Text by Isaiah Raffalovich and his Partner Moshe Eliyahu Zachs, Photographers in Jerusalem." [Frankfurt], 1899. Hebrew and German. Album of photographs taken in 1898 in the course of a journey throughout Palestine, from Gedera to Metula, by Isaiah Raffalovich and his friend Eliyahu (Elijah) Myers, Jerusalem's American Colony photographer. This was one of the first albums to be compiled documenting 19th-century Jewish settlement in Palestine from a Zionist perspective. Most of the photographs in the album document the earliest colonies of the First Aliyah. The photos are accompanied by descriptive text, in Hebrew and German (in two aligned columns). Two large photographs on folding plates (of the colonies Zikhron Ya'akov and Rosh Pina). [4], 57 ff., approx. 17X24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tiny worming holes. Tears to several leaves, mostly mended. First leaves reinforced with paper strips. Several handwritten notations and marks. Inked stamps. Later binding, slightly worn. On the printing of the album, see: Isaiah Raffalovich, "Landmarks and Road Signs: Through Seventy Years of Wanderings, 1882-1952: An Autobiography, " Tel Aviv, 1951-52 (Hebrew), pp. 67-76. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.