Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
Two Hundred Stereographic Photographs of Palestine, Accompanying Handbook, and Hand-held Stereoscope – Set produced by Underwood & Underwood
Opening: $300
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Set of 200 stereographic photographs showing the people, sites, and landscapes from all across Palestine, along with a handbook with explanations regarding the photos, a booklet of maps, and a hand-held stereoscope. All products of Underwood & Underwood.
• 200 stereographic photographs, housed in two book-shaped boxes. The photos – meant to simulate a tour of the Holy Land – present a diversity of landscapes from all across the Land of Israel, including such places as Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, the Judean Desert, Jericho, the Jordan and the Dead Sea, Judea and Samaria, and more, highlighting the numerous sites that characterize these places as well as the people who live there. The photographs are all numbered and titled.
Approx. 18X9 cm.
• The book "Palestine Through the Stereoscope, " by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and Charles Foster Kent. Published by Underwood & Underwood, [1914]. English.
The book offers a "guided tour" of the Holy Land, using the abovementioned 200 stereographic photographs. It contains explanations regarding the sites and landscapes appearing in the photos, narrated by the character of a tour guide. Each of the book's four parts is devoted to a distinct region of Palestine, and each part offers two different types of "tour, " one regular tour of the one hundred most important sites in the country, and another tour of a hundred additional sites.
A booklet containing 11 maps (some folded) of Palestine and its sites is inserted into a special pocket attached to the back board of the binding.
XXVI, 319, [7] pp., 19 cm. + booklet of maps, 16.5 cm.
• Wooden hand-held stereoscope, with folding handle.
Maximum length: approx. 31 cm.
Also enclosed: Colored stereoscopic photograph of Jerusalem's Tower of David (published by T.W. Ingersoll?).
Condition varies. Overall good condition.
• 200 stereographic photographs, housed in two book-shaped boxes. The photos – meant to simulate a tour of the Holy Land – present a diversity of landscapes from all across the Land of Israel, including such places as Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, the Judean Desert, Jericho, the Jordan and the Dead Sea, Judea and Samaria, and more, highlighting the numerous sites that characterize these places as well as the people who live there. The photographs are all numbered and titled.
Approx. 18X9 cm.
• The book "Palestine Through the Stereoscope, " by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and Charles Foster Kent. Published by Underwood & Underwood, [1914]. English.
The book offers a "guided tour" of the Holy Land, using the abovementioned 200 stereographic photographs. It contains explanations regarding the sites and landscapes appearing in the photos, narrated by the character of a tour guide. Each of the book's four parts is devoted to a distinct region of Palestine, and each part offers two different types of "tour, " one regular tour of the one hundred most important sites in the country, and another tour of a hundred additional sites.
A booklet containing 11 maps (some folded) of Palestine and its sites is inserted into a special pocket attached to the back board of the binding.
XXVI, 319, [7] pp., 19 cm. + booklet of maps, 16.5 cm.
• Wooden hand-held stereoscope, with folding handle.
Maximum length: approx. 31 cm.
Also enclosed: Colored stereoscopic photograph of Jerusalem's Tower of David (published by T.W. Ingersoll?).
Condition varies. Overall good condition.
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