Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Large Album with an Olive-Wood Binding – Photographs and Pressed Flowers from Palestine – Late 19th Century or Early 20th Century
Opening: $500
Unsold
Fleurs de Terre Sainte / Flowers of the Holy Land / Blumen aus dem Heiligen Lande. Publisher not indicated, Jerusalem, [late 19th century or early 20th century]. French, English and German.
An album with 18 chromolithographs of sites in Palestine and its surroundings, including the coast of Jaffa, the Jaffa Gate, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Gethsemane, Bethany, Solomon's Pools, Hebron, the Dead Sea, Damascus and Baalbek. Facing each print is an arrangement of pressed flowers, and beneath it a title in French, English and German, noting the site from which the flowers were collected. The album is bound in a fine olive-wood binding on which the Dome of the Rock is carved, with a wood marquetry border and beneath it, the title "Jerusalem".
24X32 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to leaves. Crack across the back board. Minor blemishes to arrangements of pressed flowers.
An album with 18 chromolithographs of sites in Palestine and its surroundings, including the coast of Jaffa, the Jaffa Gate, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Gethsemane, Bethany, Solomon's Pools, Hebron, the Dead Sea, Damascus and Baalbek. Facing each print is an arrangement of pressed flowers, and beneath it a title in French, English and German, noting the site from which the flowers were collected. The album is bound in a fine olive-wood binding on which the Dome of the Rock is carved, with a wood marquetry border and beneath it, the title "Jerusalem".
24X32 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to leaves. Crack across the back board. Minor blemishes to arrangements of pressed flowers.
Souvenirs from Palestine
Souvenirs from Palestine