Online Auction 023 Part I + Part II - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture + Judaica
An Album of Pressed Flowers, Illustrations and Photographs from Jerusalem – St. Louis World's Fair, 1904
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Souvenir Album, Jerusalem. [Publisher not indicated. Presumably, printed in Saint Louis, USA, 1903 or 1904]. English.
The album contains large arrangements of pressed flowers, photographs of holy and important sites in Jerusalem and illustrations depicting historical or biblical scenes related to those sites (the illustrations are, presumably, by H. Allen St. John).
Printed on the margins of all leaves: "Copyrighted 1903, by Jerusalem Exhibit Co."; presumably, the album was printed in Saint Louis for the 1904 World's Fair.
On the first leaf is a label of a shop on Jaffa St.: R. & W. Silverstone Bros.
Missing title page and back cover. Possibly, the album is incomplete.
[16] leaves, approx. 23X28 cm. Fair condition. Bound in a hard, new binding, with the original front cover laid down. Several open tears, restored. Creases and small tears to the margins.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The album contains large arrangements of pressed flowers, photographs of holy and important sites in Jerusalem and illustrations depicting historical or biblical scenes related to those sites (the illustrations are, presumably, by H. Allen St. John).
Printed on the margins of all leaves: "Copyrighted 1903, by Jerusalem Exhibit Co."; presumably, the album was printed in Saint Louis for the 1904 World's Fair.
On the first leaf is a label of a shop on Jaffa St.: R. & W. Silverstone Bros.
Missing title page and back cover. Possibly, the album is incomplete.
[16] leaves, approx. 23X28 cm. Fair condition. Bound in a hard, new binding, with the original front cover laid down. Several open tears, restored. Creases and small tears to the margins.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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