Auction 014
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Jun 5, 2018
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 101:
"One Hundred Aerial Photographs from Palestine" - Gustaf Dalman – Germany, 1925
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"One Hundred Aerial Photographs from Palestine" - Gustaf Dalman – Germany, 1925
Hundert deutsche Fliegerbilder aus Palästina [One Hundred Aerial Photographs from Palestine], edited by Gustaf Dalman. "Schriften des Deutschen Palästina-Instituts; 2. Band" (series of writings of the German Evangelical Institute for Research of Ruins in the Holy Land in Jerusalem, second volume). Printed and published by C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, Germany. 1925. German.
A research book with reproductions of one hundred aerial photographs of Palestine, taken by the German army during World War I (retrieved 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 folding plate at the end of the book – Map of Palestine.
158 pp + [1] folding map, 32 cm. Good condition. Stains. The map is darkened and stained, with tear at margins. Two tiny holes and a bookplate on front endpaper. A bookmark, attached to a transparency, is detached.
