Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Two Portfolios with Photographs of Palestine - Frank Mason Good - London, 1875
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
"Photo-Pictures of the Holy Land", two portfolios containing forty nine plates with photographs by Frank Mason Good. London: W.A. Mansel & Co., [ca. 1875].
Photographs of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulcher, view of the city's walls, view from Mount Scopus, view from Mount of Olives, Mosque of Omar, the Valley of Josaphat and Absalom's Tomb, and other sites in Palestine - Tiberias, Damascus, Bethlehem, Mount Hermon, and more.
The photographer, Frank Mason Good, worked at first as an assistant to the photographer Francis Frith. He is mainly known for his photographs taken during trips to the Middle East in the 1860s and 1870s.
On both portfolios (inner front cover) appear handwritten dedications in English by Charles B. Snepp, who presented the portfolios to his wife in 1877, when he returned from a tour to Palestine [it is possible, that it was Charles Busbridge Snepp, whose book "Eastern Tour to the Holy Land, Syria and the Great Pyramid of Egypt" was published in ca. 1877].
[49] photograph-plates (possibly missing one plate), housed in two original cardboard portfolios bearing the title "Photo-Pictures of the Holy Land by Frank Mason Good". Plates: 36.5 cm (average size of photographs: 24X16 cm), portfolios: 38.5 cm. Good condition. Stains to some of the plates and some of the photographs (mostly light. Dark stains to a few plates). Stains and slight defects to portfolios. Tears (mainly to flaps).
Photographs of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulcher, view of the city's walls, view from Mount Scopus, view from Mount of Olives, Mosque of Omar, the Valley of Josaphat and Absalom's Tomb, and other sites in Palestine - Tiberias, Damascus, Bethlehem, Mount Hermon, and more.
The photographer, Frank Mason Good, worked at first as an assistant to the photographer Francis Frith. He is mainly known for his photographs taken during trips to the Middle East in the 1860s and 1870s.
On both portfolios (inner front cover) appear handwritten dedications in English by Charles B. Snepp, who presented the portfolios to his wife in 1877, when he returned from a tour to Palestine [it is possible, that it was Charles Busbridge Snepp, whose book "Eastern Tour to the Holy Land, Syria and the Great Pyramid of Egypt" was published in ca. 1877].
[49] photograph-plates (possibly missing one plate), housed in two original cardboard portfolios bearing the title "Photo-Pictures of the Holy Land by Frank Mason Good". Plates: 36.5 cm (average size of photographs: 24X16 cm), portfolios: 38.5 cm. Good condition. Stains to some of the plates and some of the photographs (mostly light. Dark stains to a few plates). Stains and slight defects to portfolios. Tears (mainly to flaps).