Photographies de Terre-Sainte / Photographs of the Holy-Land / Photographien aus dem heiligen Lande. James Wood, Jerusalem, [late 19th century].

Album of photographs and pressed flowers, in olive wood binding, opening left to right. The front cover bears a Jerusalem Cross, the back cover printed "ירושלם Jerusalem". On spine: Photographs of the Holy Land / Photographien aus dem Hl. Lande.

The album comprises 18 photographs of sites in Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land, most by the American Colony photographers, signed in the plate "American Colony Jerusalem" (from the earliest period of the American Colony photography department). Captions printed in English, French and German. Opposite each photograph appears a pressed flower arrangement from the Holy Land, most titled in manuscript.

[18] photographs, [18] pressed flower arrangements. Photographs: 28X22 cm. Album: 32X24 cm. Fair condition. Wear and stains. Minor tears to tissue guards. Losses to pressed flower arrangements. Break to front cover board. Tears to spine.