Palestine
A selection of ten museum-quality items from the 15th to the 19th century
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1Luxury Palestine Souvenir AlbumJerusalem.Palestine, 1880s.
€ 18,000.00A rare and unusually massive Palestine souvenir album containing 71 photographs by the renowned studio of Félix Bonfils (1831-85), the French-born photographer who had come to the Levant with General d'Hautpoul in 1860 and remained active in the East. Based in Beirut, Bonfils produced thousands of photographs depicting Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece …
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2The first printed travel report of the Middle East, including the first Arabic alphabet in printPeregrinatio in terram sanctam.Mainz, 11 Feb 1486.
InquireEditio princeps of the first modern travelogue of a journey from Venice to the Holy Land, and "the first illustrated book of travel ever printed [...] [T]he folding panoramic views [...] are the first authentic representations of the famous places depicted, i. e., the ports usually visited by every pilgrim of the period [... The] artist was Erhard …
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3A photographic pioneer in the Middle East, the first completely realized photobook ever publishedÉgypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis …Paris, 1852.
€ 350,000.00Extremely rare first edition, complete, illustrated with 125 salt prints from wet paper negatives (Blanquart-Evrard process) mounted one to a page. Maxime Du Camp’s monumental survey, "Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie", was the first of its kind, the first travel album to be completely illustrated with photographs of archaeological monuments.
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4Extremely rare photographic workJerusalem Photographic Album.Newark, NJ, 1865.
€ 45,000.00An extremely rare photographic work, unrecorded in the major scholarly studies of early photography in the Holy Land.
According to the introductory text, "In the winter of 1859 the King of Prussia sent an artist to the Holy Land to procure views for his portfolio. Having reached Jerusalem, whilst the Royal commission was being executed, I …
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5Important and early photobook on the Near EastEgypt and Palestine. Photographed and described.London, 1858-1859.
€ 40,000.00First edition of this important and early photobook on the Near East. During the years 1856-59, Frith (1822-98) made three visits to Egypt and the Holy Land; this selection of his photographs, from wet-collodion 9 x 7 negatives taken with an 8-by-10 inch camera, was published in 25 fascicles of 3 prints each, a work hailed as "one of the most renowned …
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6Three-dimensional plaster model of JerusalemPlan-relief de Jérusalem et de ses environs [...].Paris, ca. 1885.
InquireExceptional three-dimensional model of Jerusalem: the fifth edition of this rare relief plan showing the principal landmarks of the city, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Via Dolorosa, and the Mount of Olives, as well as other places of worship, cemeteries, hospitals, hammams, schools, grottos, and the Pasha's palais. Heightened …
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7A visit to the Holy City in 1861Souvenirs de Jérusalem. Album dessiné par M. le contre-amiral Pâris …Paris, 1862.
€ 5,000.00Elaborate album of lithographs based on drawings by Vice Admiral François-Edmond Pâris from a visit to the holy city in 1861. The album follows his itinerary as described by Pâris in the introductory text. Leading his squadron from Jaffa to Jerusalem, Pâris drew a charming scene of pilgrims gathering at the fountain of Abu-Nabbut. Before entering …
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8Forty magnificent calotypes of Jerusalem: "It was an expensive book"Jérusalem. Etude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville …Paris, 1856.
€ 45,000.00Second, "better known" (Parr/Badger) edition of this pioneering work, first published in 1854: only the plate volume with the 40 magnificent calotypes, wanting the separately published 90 pages of text.
Wishing to support L. F. J. Caignant de Saulcy in the controversy concerning the dating of the wall of Jerusalem that followed his journey …
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9The first photographs taken in Asia MinorExploration archéologique en Asie Mineure comprenant les restes non connus …Paris, ca. 1858-1863.
€ 48,000.00Rare, early photobook on the archaeological excavations in Turkey and the Levant during the 1850s, a work which assured the architect-explorer Pierre Tremaux (1818-95) an eminent place in the history of photography. Includes views of Aphrodisias, Corycus, Ephesus, Hierapolis, Jerusalem, Magnesia, Milet, Perga, Priene, Seleucia, Smyrna, Tarsus, etc.
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