Hundert deutsche Fliegerbilder aus Palästina [One Hundred Aerial Photographs of Palestine], edited by Gustaf Dalman, "Schriften des Deutschen Palästina-Instituts; 2. Band" (a series of writings of German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem, volume 2). A paper sticker bearing the name of the publisher, "Der Rufer," was placed over the printer’s information on the title page. Gütersloh, Germany, 1925. German.
A work containing reproductions of one hundred aerial photographs of Paletsine that were taken by the German army during World War I (acquired from an archive in Bavaria), with an introduction and detailed explanations by the scholar Gustaf Dalman, the first director of the German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem. A folded plate appears at the end of the book – a map of Palestine. The book includes a bookmark with a transparency upon it.
158 pp. + [1] folded map, 32 cm. Good condition. Several pages are loose. Stains, mainly upon the map. A handwritten inscription on one of the front endpapers.