Subasta 016 Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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LOTE 91:

Album of Photographs from Palestine – Olive Wood Binding

Vendido por: $250
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$ 250
Comisión de la casa de subasta: 25%
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Album with 25 photographs of sites and inhabitants in Palestine. [Late 19th or early 20th century].
The album contains photographs of views and sites in Palestine (Western Wall, Jaffa Gate, Tomb of Absalom, Mount of Olives, Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, and more) as well as photographs of the country's inhabitants in traditional costumes (a Muslim woman, portrait of a Muslim man and a group photograph of Bedouins in Jericho). The photographs are mounted on the thick album leaves and titled in print on the album leaves (French).
The album is bound in a handsome olive wood binding, with leather spine. On the front binding appears a carved Jerusalem Cross and the word "Jerusalem" (printed) on the back binding appears the word "Jerusalem" .
25 photographs. Average size of photographs: 13.5X9 cm. Album: 17.5X11.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, some to photographs. Defects and some small tears to margins of album leaves. Glue remnants at right margins of the last leaf (where it is attached to the binding). Slight tears to spine.