Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Large Album in Olive Wood Binding – Bonfils Photographs / Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land – Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Opening: $200
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Fleurs de Terre Sainte / Flowers of the Holy Land / Blumen auf dem Hl. Land. Published by F. F. Marroum, Jerusalem, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Album in carved olive wood binding with leather spine; containing twelve photographs depicting views and sites of the Holy Land, signed in the negative "Bonfils", including: Jaffa, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, the Valley of Hinnom, the Jordan River, and more. Opposite each photograph, is bound a plate with an arrangement of pressed flowers – purportedly gathered at the site where the photograph was taken.
[13] leaves (12 photographs and 12 pressed flowers arrangements). 31X23 cm. Good condition. Minor wear and defects. Some loss to the pressed flower arrangements. Tissue guards, with minor tears and creases. Binding somewhat worn, spine chipped.
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