Flowers of Palestine – Postcard Album with Pressed Flowers and Silhouettes by Meir Gur-Aryeh – Olivewood Binding – ...

Flowers of Palestine – Postcard Album with Pressed Flowers and Silhouettes by Meir Gur-Aryeh – Olivewood Binding – Bezalel
Flowers of Palestine, postcard album with silhouette prints by Bezalel artist Meir Gur-Aryeh and pressed flowers. Published by "Bnei Bezalel". Jerusalem: "Zion" Press, [1920s].
The album contains ten postcards showing Jewish and Zionist-themed silhouettes by Meir Gur-Aryeh – the Western Wall, prayer upon embarking on a journey, harvest, a pioneer and more. Pressed flowers arrangements on the postcards.
The album is bound in a fine olivewood binding. On one side, the captions "Flowers of Palestine" and "Bezalel Jerusalem" (Hebrew). On the other, the caption "Flowers of Palestine" (Hebrew) and an illustration of a woman with a bouquet of flowers and a deer beside her.
[10] ff., 6.5X13 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to pressed flowers. Inscription in pen on the front endpaper. Margins of postcards slightly trimmed (on one side; affecting the printed text on verso). Loose binding.