Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Part I

"Souvenir from Jerusalem" – Album of Pressed Flowers, with Color Lithographs – Yechiel Tzvi Tzimrinsky – Carved Olivewood Binding

Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
"Souvenir from Jerusalem", "Yechiel Tzvi Tzimrinsky workshop" (additional title page in English, French and German, with the name of the publisher – H.N. Shechter). Jerusalem, [1920s/1930s]
Album with pressed flowers and color lithographic views of Palestine – Tiberias, Jerusalem (including the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus), Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jordan River, the Dead Sea and more. The illustrations are captioned in Hebrew, English and French.
Bound in an olivewood binding with a carved image of the Dome of the Rock beneath the title "The Place of the Temple" (Hebrew) and, on both sides, the printed inscription "Jerusalem" in Hebrew and Latin characters.
[13] ff., 17X10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some tears. Handwritten dedication on the last leaf (English). Binding partly detached.
Holy Land Souvenirs
Holy Land Souvenirs