Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $150
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Photograph depicting worshippers at the Western Wall on the first Sabbath following the occupation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War. 10 June 1967.
Black-and-white photograph, documenting the first Shabbat prayer at the Old Western Wall Plaza, taken from a rooftop in the Mughrabi Quarter (later that same day, the IDF ordered the residents to evacuate, and began demolishing the buildings to create the present-day plaza).
Mounted and framed photograph, signed in pencil on the mat; photographer's stamp on verso.
Two printed labels (in Hebrew and English) affixed to the lower part of the mat:
"10 June 1967 The first Shabat (Sabbath) at the Western Wall after the war. Together with Rabbi Goren, the first soldiers had placed a Torah Scroll, a "shofar", and a bench at the Wall. David Harris".
29.5X39.5 cm. Frame: 51.5X61.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Photograph mounted to the mat with adhesive tape.
David Harris (1929-2008), Jerusalem born photographer, who documented the history of Israel for over six decades. Studied painting in his youth under Shmuel Charuvi. Harris began his career as a military photographer in 1947 and later worked extensively for the national institutions. From 1959, he worked as an independent photojournalist and collaborated with various museums. Known especially for his documentation of the waves of immigration to Israel during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $15,000
Including buyer's premium
"The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. From drawings made on the spot by David Roberts. " London: F.G. Moon, 1842 (title page print dated 1842; most of the lithographs dated 1841). First volume. English.
First edition of the monumental work "The Holy Land… " by David Roberts, printed in large (folio) format, with hand-painted lithographs.
The present work represents the first part (out of three), devoted to Jerusalem and its environs. It contains illustrations of the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock, the Tower of David, Damascus Gate, the Golden Gate, the Tomb of Absalom, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, overviews of the city taken from its surrounding hills, and more.
The album is contained in an elegant binding created by the Hering Family of bookbinders; the company stamp appears on the front flyleaf: "Bound by Hering, 9 Newman St. "). On the front is a gilt impression of the emblem of Jerusalem – "Armorial ensigns of Jerusalem " – first presented following the conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade, 1099 CE (at least according to the explanation offered in the introduction).
Illustrations of the Holy Land by David Roberts are widely regarded as being among the finest achievements of 19th-century lithographic printing, and among the handsomest of photographic albums of the Holy Land ever published. The paintings were created in the course of Roberts’s expedition to the Near East in the years 1839-40, which he undertook by means of a camel caravan accompanied by armed bodyguards. This came about at a time when the cities of the Orient were mostly unknown to Western culture, and familiar to only a handful of English painters.
Upon Roberts’s return from his journey, 250 of his original paintings were processed, converted, and reproduced as large-size printed plates, rich in detail, by the painter and print artist Louis Haghe, all the while under Roberts’s direct supervision; with regard to Haghe’s work, Roberts stated that his original paintings were reproduced "with a masterly vigour and boldness which none but a painter like him [Haghe] could have transferred to stone... ".
The first edition of "The Holy Land... " was published in 1842, printed in full folio size (approx. 60 cm.) and in two different versions, one regular and the other hand-painted. In order to fund the project, over 600 subscribers were enlisted and required to pre-purchase their copies. These subscribers – members of the aristocracy and royalty from all across Europe – included Queen Victoria, the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, the Austrian emperor, the Russian Tsar, the monarchs of France and Prussia, and others.
The copy reserved for Queen Victoria – designated as "Number One " on the list of subscribers – was given by the queen to her grandson Edward as a Christmas present in 1855. Today it is part of the Royal Collection (Item No. 1071157).
See next lot.
[1] leaves (title page, lithographic print), [3] leaves 30 pages, [24] pages + [21] lithographic plates. 62 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Inked stamp on title page.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, after lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. London: Day & Son, 1855-1856. English. Six parts in three volumes.
David Roberts' monumental work, The Holy Land – a copy of the first quarto edition. Six parts, comprising 248 lithographs after Roberts' drawings, and two engraved maps tracing his journeys throughout the Near East. The plates are accompanied by descriptive texts by George Croly and William Brockedon. The lithographs depict buildings, ruins, churches, mosques, cities, landscapes, and sacred sites throughout Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, Transjordan, and Egypt, serving as visual documentation of Roberts' travels in 1839-1840.
The publication of The Holy Land was a project unprecedented in the history of printing – hundreds of views of the Holy Land, issued in full folio format (approx. 60 cm), prepared under Roberts' supervision by leading lithographers of the time (see previous lot). The completion of the project spanned nearly a decade, and was financed by advance subscribers including Queen Victoria, the Austrian Emperor, the Russian Tsar, the Kings of France and Prussia, and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury.
The immense size of the folio edition, as well as the scope of the work, provoked criticism among some readers, who complained of its impracticality. The scholar Titus Tobler, for instance, remarked that "the work is so heavy that in order to deliver it my house, three hours away, the volumes were divided into two separate loads. It was thus possible for me to study this inconvenient thing at leisure" (Titus Tobler, Bibliographia geographica Palaestinae, Leipzig, 1867, p. 229, German). As a result, the publishers decided to issue a more manageable edition in quarto format, begun in 1855 and completed in 1856 – the present edition.
Six parts in three volumes (original bindings): Vol. I (Parts I-II): [3] leaves, 35 pages, [23] leaves + plates 1-44; [1] leaf, 3 pages, [22] leaves + plates 45-87. Vol. II (Parts III-IV): [1] leaf, 3 pages, [19] leaves + plates 88-125; [1] leaf, 9 pages, [22] leaves + plates 126-168. Vol. III (Parts V-VI): [23] leaves + plates 169-212; [20] leaves + plates 213-250. 29 cm. Gilt edges. Overall good condition. Stains, creases and minor wear. Several leaves and plates detached. Bindings rubbed, with minor wear.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium
The Holy Land, After Lithographs by Louis Haghe, from Original Drawings by David Roberts, R.A., with Historical Descriptions by the Rev. George Croly. London, Paris and New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, [ca. early 1880s]. English. Three volumes.
120 lithographic plates after drawings by David Roberts, depicting buildings, cities, landscapes and sites sacred to various religions throughout the Holy Land and the Middle East. Original bindings, illustrated and gilt.
See Lots 222 and 223 in the present catalogue.
Three volumes. Vol. I: VIII pages, 42, [5] pages + [42] plates. Vol. II: VIII pages, 43-85, [4] pages + [42] plates. Vol. III: VIII pages, 36, [4] pages + [36] plates. 32 cm. Gilt edges. Fair-good condition. Stains and light creases. Most leaves and plates detached. Various inscriptions. Handwritten dedication in first volume, dated 1893. Minor wear to bindings.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $5,250
Including buyer's premium
Eleven color lithographs after paintings by David Roberts. [London, ca. 1842-1845; some lithographs dated in the plate 1839-1841; some are titled, with print details].
Lithographs that were part of the monumental work "The Holy Land… " by David Roberts: Views of Jerusalem from different angles; the Tower of David; the Kidron Valley; and more.
David Roberts (1796-1864), regarded as the foremost trailblazer among 19th-century artist-travelers who journeyed to the Near East in an attempt to acquaint the European public with its landscapes. Roberts produced quick sketches "in situ" (or in his words, "on the spot"), in watercolor, which he later converted into handsome, readily presentable lithographs.
11 printed plates, two of them in duplicate copies. Approx. 48X32. Overall good condition. Matted.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $3,000
Including buyer's premium
Twenty-five color lithographs after paintings by David Roberts. [London, ca. 1842-1845; some lithographs dated in the plate 1839-41; some are titled, with print details]. Duplicate copies.
Lithographs that were part of the monumental work "The Holy Land…" by David Roberts: Views of Jerusalem from different angles; the Tower of David; the Kidron Valley; landscapes and townscapes from all over the Holy Land; and more.
David Roberts (1796-1864), regarded as the foremost trailblazer among 19th-century artist-travelers who journeyed to the Near East in an attempt to acquaint the European public with its landscapes. Roberts produced quick sketches "in situ" (or in his words, "on the spot"), in watercolor, which he later converted into handsome, readily presentable lithographs.
25 printed plates, most in duplicate copies of two or more. Approx. 48X32. Overall good condition. Stains. Blemishes. Minor tears to several plates.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
"Views in Palestine", after paintings by Luigi Mayer. London: Printed by Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804 (prints dated 1803-1804). English and French.
Volume containing 24 hand-painted aquatint prints, inspired by paintings by the artist Luigi (Ludwig) Mayer (1755-1803). Most of the prints show views of Jerusalem and its surrounding areas (view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, view of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Siloam Pool, Tomb of Absalom, Valley of Jehoshaphat, Bethlehem, and more), and various personalities living in these areas. Watermarks appearing on some of the print plates: "J. Whatman 1801".
Luigi Mayer was commissioned to create these paintings by the British diplomat and Orientalist Robert Ainsley (ca. 1730 – 1812) while Ainsley was serving as British ambassador to the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Two other books featuring aquatint prints after paintings by Mayer were published around the time that "Views in Palestine" was first printed, namely "Views in Egypt" and "Views in the Ottoman Empire". In 1804, the three works were merged into a single-volume publication entitled "Views in Egypt, Palestine, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire".
[1] leaf, 47, [1] pages + [24] plates, 46.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Binding with leather spine and boards with leather corners. Wear, blemishes, and abrasions to binding.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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![Die heiligen Stätten, by Otto Georgi. Leipzig: J. A. Romberg, [1854?]. German.
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![Die heiligen Stätten, by Otto Georgi. Leipzig: J. A. Romberg, [1854?]. German.
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![Die heiligen Stätten, by Otto Georgi. Leipzig: J. A. Romberg, [1854?]. German.
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![Die heiligen Stätten, by Otto Georgi. Leipzig: J. A. Romberg, [1854?]. German.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $200
Unsold
Die heiligen Stätten, by Otto Georgi. Leipzig: J. A. Romberg, [1854?]. German.
First edition of a small-format album of illustrations depicting the holy sites in Palestine. Created by Friedrich Otto Georgi (1819-1874), who was appointed as the official artist to the Prussian expedition to Egypt, led by Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. After the expedition concluded, Georgi traveled independently to Palestine, where he recorded its landscapes in a series of drawings, later published in the present work – comprising ten engraved plates and additional illustrations within the text, depicting Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and other sites. Illustrated title page (with motifs from the New Testament), printed in reddish-brown ink.
Not listed in the NLI catalogue.
vi, 91, [1] pages + [1] illustrated title page and 10 plates. Approx. 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and minor creases. Inked stamps. Later binding and endpapers, with wear and blemishes.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $200
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
The Hills and Plains of Palestine, by Lucy Matilda Cubley. London: Day & Son, 1860. English.
An account of Lucy Matilda Cubley's journey through the Holy Land, accompanied by thirty hand-colored lithographs, after her own drawings and sketches. Among the plates are depictions of Jewish seamstresses at the workshop of Mrs. Caroline Cooper (The Jewesses' Institution), an effendi, a peasant woman with her children, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Ein Kerem, and others. The title page is illustrated with an image of the Dome of the Rock – one of the earliest known depictions of the Temple Mount by a female artist.
Original gilt-decorated binding, with embossed image of the Roman coin "Judaea Capta".
Lucy Matilda Cubley traveled through the Ottoman Empire between 1853 and 1856. During her stay in Palestine, she was involved in charitable work at the institution founded by Mrs. Caroline Cooper for the benefit of Jewish women – one of whose rare depictions appears in this album. She often painted sites from viewpoints that were off-limits to Christians, sometimes under military guard. According to her account, the title-page illustration of the Temple Mount was executed in just half an hour, under soldiers' supervision.
[3], 57 pages + [30] lithographic plates (28 of them numbered). 29 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Several leaves with small marginal tears. Original binding, slightly worn.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $100
Unsold
"Bethlehem to Jerusalem, " by George Klingle (pen name of Georgiana Klingle Holmes), with color lithographic plates of watercolor illustrations by Harry Fenn. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1988. English.
Epic poem by the American poet Georgiana Klingle Holmes (1841-1940), who wrote under the pen name of "George Klingle. " Accompanied by color lithographic plates of illustrations by the British-American painter Harry Fenn (1837-1911). These illustrations present well-known sites and scenes from the Holy Land, specifically Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the Mount of Olives, and Jerusalem as viewed from Mount Scopus.
One plate is missing, specifically an illustration of the Sea of Galilee as viewed from Tiberias.
[8] leaves + [3] plates (of four; color lithographic plates). 26X23.5 cm. Overall good condition. Minor stains. Minor tears to edges of several leaves. Binding holes in margins of cover and leaves (no lacing). Original cover with gilt impression, in fair condition. Stains, wear, and minor tears.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $150
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Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, by John Carne; illustrations by William Henry Bartlett, Thomas Allom, and William Purser. London, Paris and New York: Fisher, Son & Co. Dated in the engraved titles: 1837-1838. English. Three volumes. First edition.
Three volumes containing 122 plates: three engraved title pages, two maps, and 117 high-quality steel engravings (most signed in the plate W. H. Bartlett), depicting views of Palestine and important places throughout the Middle East – Jerusalem, Jaffa, Beirut, Alexandria, and more. Accompanied by descriptive texts by traveler and writer John Carne.
Three volumes. Vol. I: [4], II, [1] pages, 4-80 pages + [37] plates. Vol. II: 76 pages + [37] plates. Vol. III: 100, [4] pages + [48] plates. 26 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor tears to margins of several leaves, not affecting text. Contemporary half-leather bindings. Bindings worn and slightly defective. Scuffing to binding. Gilt edges.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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![Views Illustrating the Topography of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern, by William Henry Bartlett. London: C. Virtue, [1845?].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale104/232_1.jpg "William Henry Bartlett – \"Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern\" – Rare Folio")
![Views Illustrating the Topography of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern, by William Henry Bartlett. London: C. Virtue, [1845?].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale104/232_2.jpg "William Henry Bartlett – \"Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern\" – Rare Folio")
![Views Illustrating the Topography of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern, by William Henry Bartlett. London: C. Virtue, [1845?].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale104/232_3.jpg "William Henry Bartlett – \"Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern\" – Rare Folio")
![Views Illustrating the Topography of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern, by William Henry Bartlett. London: C. Virtue, [1845?].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale104/232_4.jpg "William Henry Bartlett – \"Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern\" – Rare Folio")
Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Views Illustrating the Topography of Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern, by William Henry Bartlett. London: C. Virtue, [1845?]. English and French.
Rare folio edition, containing two maps of Jerusalem, ancient and modern (printed on one plate), and three hand-colored lithographs after Bartlett's drawings: a view of Ancient Jerusalem with the Temple; a view of Modern Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock; and a view of Modern Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives from the north (lithographs by J. C. Bourne). The title page bears an additional hand-colored lithograph, depicting the "Remains of the Ancient Bridge" (Robinson's Arch).
Introductory text in English and French precedes the plates, with a schematic plan of the city and a key identifying the principal sites.
Only one copy listed in OCLC.
[1] Title leaf (hand-colored lithograph, slightly smaller than the other leaves), [2] pages + [1] plate (maps of Ancient and Modern Jerusalem), [3] plates (hand-colored lithographs). Approx. 58 cm. Overall good condition. Minor wear and stains. Small marginal tears. Title leaf detached, margins trimmed. Binding rubbed, with tears and defects; boards partially detached.
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Jerusalem Painters of the 19th Century: Albums of Prints, Lithographs, Engravings
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