A view of Palestine and the Colonies, "Photographs and text by Isaiah Raffalovich and his Partner Moshe Eliyahu Zachs. Photographers in Jerusalem, May She be Rebuilt and Reestablished." [Frankfurt], 1899. Hebrew and German.
An album of photographs taken in the course of a journey throughout Palestine from Gedera to Metula, taken in 1898 by Isaiah Raffalovich and his friend Eliyahu (Elijah) Myers, photographer of Jerusalem's American Colony. This was one of the first albums to be compiled documenting 19th-century Jewish settlement in Palestine from a Zionist perspective.
Most of the photographs in the album document the earliest colonies of the First Aliyah. The photos are accompanied by descriptive text, in Hebrew and German, aligned one facing the other, on opposite pages. Two large photographs on folding plates (of the colonies of Zikhron Ya'akov and Rosh Pina).
Embossed dedication (in German) dated 1908 on front cover.
[61] ff., approx. 16.5X23 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves. Stains. Creases and minor tears, some mended with adhesive tape. Inked stamps. Original binding, partly detached, with tears and blemishes to edges and spine.
On the printing of the album, see: Isaiah Raffalovich, "Landmarks and Road Signs: Through Seventy Years of Wanderings, 1882-1952: An Autobiography," Tel Aviv, 1951-52 (Hebrew), pp. 67-76.