Ten professional aerial photographs by Zoltan Kluger, a gift presented by Shlomo Zalman Schocken to friends on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Jerusalem, September 1938.
Each photograph is mounted on cardboard and titled in German on verso of cardboard. The photographs are contained in their original box. The photographs depict: The Old City of Jerusalem, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Tel-Aviv, Haifa Port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yehezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kfar Nahum [Capernaum] and the Jordan River near Jericho. Included are two leaves, one with a printed greeting from Schocken: "I am glad to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs of Palestine as a small gift for his kind greetings for my 60th birthday", and the other one with a list of photographs (in German). On the dedication page Schocken added a personal greeting written by hand (signed), to the physician Dr. Avraham Ticho.
Approx. 28.5X22.5 cm. Good condition. Some defects, mainly to back of photographs. Ink stamps on the leaf with the list of photographs, and on inner side of the box's cover.
See: Gil Weissblei, Album with the first civil aerial photographs of Palestine, Internet website of "Haaretz" newspaper, 22.2.2017.