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LOTTO 102:
Aerial Photographs of Palestine by Zoltan Kluger – Zalman Schocken’s Gift to Friends for his 60th Birthday
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Aerial Photographs of Palestine by Zoltan Kluger – Zalman Schocken’s Gift to Friends for his 60th Birthday
Nine professional aerial photographs of Palestine, by Zoltan Kluger (out of ten originally). Gift by Zalman Schocken to friends on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Jerusalem, September 1938.
Each photograph is mounted on cardboard and titled in Hebrew and English (on a label. One photograph is titled in German). The photographs show: Jerusalem - The Old City, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Tel-Aviv, Haifa Port, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Yehezkel, Moshav Beit-Yossef, Kfar Nahum [Capernaum]. Included are two leaves, one with a printed greeting from Schocken: "I am glad to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs of Palestine as a small gift for his kind greetings for my 60th birthday", and the other one with a list of photographs (in German). On the dedication page appears Schocken's signature, by hand.
See: Gil Weissblei, Album with the first civil aerial photographs of Palestine, Internet website of "Haaretz" newspaper, 22.2.2017.
Nine photographs out of ten, approx. 22.5X28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Defects (mainly to margins). Peeling to a number of photographs (mainly slight, at margins). Stains and ink-stamps on the reverse. Stains, creases and defects to both printed leaves.
