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1972207021972. Al-Djabha. Die Front. Heidelberg Germany: Komitee zur Unterstutzung Palastinas 1970-1974. A pro-Palestinian communist German publication. 5 issues. Measuring 8.25" x 12". Pages range from 40-52 each. Text in German. Staple bound white wrappers with black and red text a hammer sickle and firearm make the logo on the top left corner some have black and white photos on the cover. Black and white illustrations and photography throughout. Archive includes: May 1972 No. 1; November 1972 No. 2; 1972 No. 13; October 1973 No. 1; and 1974 No. 1. Some topics include the imperial impacts of oil the Israeli war budget an extensive discussion of "Black September" the Jordanian Civil War led by Yasser Arafat. Some staples are missing from a few issues. Some minor edgewear to each pages and text are clean. Overall very good condition. A scarce radical left publication. unknown
1870177646London. Circa1870. Three original albumen print photographs all approx 15 x 21 cm mounted on album card two with the original labels of the Palestine Exploration Fund and reference numbers No. 261 Ashkelon:-Grove of Trees & No. 273. Rafat the mounts creased and ragged with edge tears and loss more pronounced in the mount of the Aqueduct image which has archival repairs to the verso of the mount but the photographs in very good condition. Historic large format photographs dating from the Survey of Palestine begun in 1865 conducted by the Palestine Exploration Fund the oldest organization in the world created specifically for the study of the Levant. . unknown
18385116<b>1</b> Dr. Conradus Leemans <i>Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini sur les Monumens Egyptiens portant des legendes royales dans musees d'antiquites de leide de londres et dans quelques collections particulieres en angleterre</i> 1838. Chez H. W. Hazenberg et Comp. Leide. 160 pp. XXXII 32 plates<br /><b>2</b> Palestine Exploration Society <i>No. 2 Second Statement </i>September 1873 Hackensack N.J. 76 pp. vi<br /><b>3</b> Henrico Brugsch <i>De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum. Fasciculus prior de Nomine de Dialectis de Litterarum Sonis</i> 1850. Prostat in Libraria Dummleriana Berolini. 40 pp.<br /><b>4</b> Dr. Heinrich Brugsch <i>Die Adonisklage und das Linoslied</i> 1852. Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin. 33 pp.<br /><b>5</b> Heinrich Hubschmann <i>Die Umschreibung der Iranischen Sprachen un des Armenischen</i> 1882. Druck und Verlag von Breitkopf und Hartel Leipzig. 44 pp. <br /><b>6</b> Dr. Martin Haug <i>Das achtzehnte Kapitel des Wendidad ubersetzt und erklart</i> 1869. F. Straub Munchen. 54 pp.<br /><b>7</b> Dr. Richard Lepsius <i>Das Allgemeine Linguistische Alphabet. Grundsatze der ubertragung fremder schriftsysteme und bisher noch ungeschriebener sprachen in Europaische Buchstaben</i> 1855. Wilhelm Hertz Berlin. 64 pp.<br />Majority are first editions. Text in French English German and Latin. Quarter cloth over marbled boards. 4 fold-out reproductions of Egyptian tablets and/or hieroglyphs; 4th fold-out has a large tear at first interior fold still intact p. 76 of Palestine Exploration Society. 1 fold-out illustration. Some occasional spotting throughout. Loss to cloth of spine and rubbing to exterior edges of covers. 160 pp. XXXII 32 plates; 76 pp. vi; 40 pp.; 33 pp.; 44 pp.; 54 pp.; 64 pp.; ~503 pp. total. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. Chez H. W. Hazenberg et Comp.; Hackensack; Prostat in Libraria Dummleriana; Breitkopf und Hartel; F. Straub; Wilhelm Hertz hardcover
19707379New York: Palestine Liberation Organization New York Office 1970. Staple bound pamphlet 14 pages. Very good. Minor soiling and age toning to cover. Previous owner initials marked out in pen to verso of front cover. Pages crisp and clean in very nice shape. Palestine Liberation Organization, New York Office unknown
a81024Jerusalem 1943 Palestine Archaological Museum.Description of items in the Museum. 4to. 114pp. stringbound wraps. Good plus spinep chipped and frayed. Scarce. . paperback
1938182153London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1938. First separate edition of this short but consequential statement on the findings of the Palestine Partition Commission rejecting the commission's proposals to create independent Arab and Jewish states. "The political administrative and financial difficulties involved. are so great that this solution of the problem is impracticable. His Majesty's Government will therefore continue their responsibility for the government of the whole of Palestine" p. 3. Octavo bifolium pp. 4. Light toning staple offsetting near central fold: near-fine. unknown
19210720Jerusalem Palestine Agudath Netaim 1921. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Lot of 3 works on the subject. The first item is octavo Pp. 24. Original printed wrappers faded bit soiled vertical fold mark small old ticket at top corner small rubbed patch at back. In good condition very good and clean interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Interesting and very rare document relating to the Jewish "Planters Association of Palestine". The first part approved by the High Commissioner Herbert Samuel is the Memorandum of Association. Its articles specify the objects for which the company is established as "the purchase of any lands forests . and other immovable property in Palestine Transjordania Syria and the Peninsula of Sinai for the purpose of constructing maintaining and managing any roads ways railways bridges viaducts harbours telegraphs electrical works factories etc. In doing so the company will take over all the assets and liabilities of 'The Ottoman Company for Commerce and Agriculture and Industries Limited' incorporated under Turkish Law the 26th April 1910". On the curious case of "Agendath sic. Netaim" which the half-Jewish Leopold Bloom spends a whole day considering one should read with pleasure in James Joyce's "Ulysses". TO THIS IS ADDED: "Statuts de la Societé Ottomane de Commerce d'Agriculture et d'Industrie." Constantinople Ferd. Walla 1910. 12mo. Pp. 12. Plain wrappers. In fine condition. AND: "Prospekt. Ottomanische anonyme Gesellschaft für Agricultur Handel und Industrie. Genehmigt mit Kaiserlicher Irade vom 26 April/9 Mai 1910. Jaffa Agudath Netaim1911." 12mo. Pp. 8. Self-wrappers. Original document with manuscript entries specifying names of the Committee members and its Auditors financial situation scope and scale of the plantation Oranges 235 dunam; Olives 385 dunam etc. Extremely rare set of documents relating to one of the earliest Zionist enterprises. I-4 IN <br/> <br/> Jerusalem, Palestine, [Agudath Netaim] paperback
1947293491NY: United Nations 19 20 May 1947. library binding. Good-. 356 pp 11 294 pp.maps noting the partition plans population distribution 1944provincial autonomy plan historical documentation of attempts to absorb refugees from Nazi Europe and restrictions pages are yellowing first few pages are brittle some have tears and separated from the book but all text present tiny library mark tp part three pages are yellowing first few pages separated from binding pages yellow but not brittle covers many aspects of Palestine economygeorgraphyhistory. popilationreligion health. land etc. library mark on spine and slight library mark Restricted A/AC.13/2 Summaries of all the documents recommendations proposals and annexes and maps.Restricted A/AC.13/3 selected excerpts from of official soruces such as Palestine Royal Comm Report A Survey of Palestine 1945/46 Statistical Abstract of Palestine 1944-1945 Report of the Anglo American Committee of Inquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine Cmd 6808 dept of State Publ No 2536 for use by members of Special Committee of Palestine. United Nations unknown
1910PALESTIN024601Macmillan London. 1910. Fifth edition revised throughout. Issued in the Macmillan Guides series. Small octavo. pp xxxii 164 8 adverts. 13 colour maps six of them folding 6 plans. Fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good darkened at the spine nicked and chipped. Macmillan, London. unknown
22242Both from Darlington. 15 and 17 August 1847. See Sams's entry in the Oxford DNB. Two letters providing an interesting glimpse of the practicalities of Victorian antiquarian bookselling. Both letters 3pp 12mo and bifoliums addressed on reverse of second leaf with broken seals and postmarks to 'Godfrey Meynell Esqre at Mr Stamp's Surgeon Seaton Carew nr Hartlepool.' Both addressed to 'Respected Frd.' In fair condition aged and worn. ONE: 15 August 1847. He begins by explaining that he was 'from home in the city of Durham' when Meynell's letter came. Sams explains the pricing of two items in his catalogue beginning with: 'The reduced price to give satisfaction that the rare Chaucer 1542 folio was put at was £2. 15s. 6d tho' it was considered modest at a guinea more 3. 13. 6'. The second book 'the Anglo Poetica' 'has not a word said for binding therefore it is to be taken as in old binding for when in Russia they carefully state it & when extra bd neat &c. But the present is very neat in the original oak bds covered with leather a state generally quite prized.' He discusses the cost of delivery: 'The carriage I do not suppose will be above a shilling which is the price to York much further than Seaton. However as perhaps the gentleman to whom I now write may be a customer hereafter I have determined to sustain the further loss tho' not intended to go at the least under the £2. 15s. 6 & on receing a line saying the exact mode by which this work is to be sent & whether by coach or merchant train the post order can be enclosed in the letter it shall be very carefully packed & sent as may be pointed out.' He ends with the information that 'a gentleman I saw at Durham since I have been away spoke to me about this very work & it seems likely he will call abt. It when this way at not less than 3£. or 3. 3s. Had it not the little injury it is supposed it wd. be well worth even 5£. now.' TWO: 17 August 1847. Begins: 'Thine has come to hand - the rare edition of Chaucer has been gone thro' leaf by leaf & it seems quite difficult to collate for the paging is very often wrong but the catchwords prove nothing to be wanting. Yet we fear 1 or 2 leaves are wanting in the interior quite perfect at beginning & end tho' difficult to ascertain as clearly as could be wished.' Sams is 'striving to leave for the Metropolis' the following day '& time being exceedingly precious so close attention has not been given to the looking over the book as could otherwise.' He suggests a price of £2 15s for 'this rare book which is remarkable in having the original first & second titles as well as last leaf &c & also for being in the original oak bds neatly covered with embossed leather'. He ends: 'I think of keeping it apprehending it wd. bring that or more at auction even.' A postscript concerns catalogue orders and ends: 'The christn. name is Joseph -'. In another hand Meynell's beneath the address on the reverse of the second leaf is an eight-line note on the faults in a book the Chaucer beginning: 'In the prologue at least 2 leaves are wanting that is from verse 505 to 715 -'. Both from Darlington. 15 and 17 August 1847. hardcover
1881mon0004027789D. Appleton and Company 1/1/1881 12:00:00 AM. leather_bound. Very Good. . 2-volume set complete. half-leather cover with raised bands and gilt shows moderate wear tear rubbing to the extremities. pages tanned and clean. all edges gilt. profusely illustrated. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
MA08D-02238World Jewish Congress. Relief and Rehabilitation Dep.; Jewish Agency for Palestine. Rescue Committee. Collectible - Acceptable. Stockholm: World Jewish Congress. Relief and Rehabilitation Dep.; Jewish Agency for Palestine. Rescue Committee 1946. List No. 1. 8vo brown paper wraps. 158pp. Near Good book. Covers slightly dampstained and soiled. Pages toned. Tearing at head of spine and lower corner of front cover torn off. Ink initial on front cover and page 115. In polypropylene bag. 12 copies on OCLC. Sweden Holocaust Survivors Jewish Refugees Inquire if you need further information. World Jewish Congress. Relief and Rehabilitation Dep.; Jewish Agency for Palestine. Rescue Committee. paperback
149378273Nürnberg 1493. Originalt tresnitt med nyere kolorering. Folio. Arkets størrelse : 276 X 406 cm.Folio. Original woodcut with recent colouring. Size of sheet : 276 X 406 cm. Tysk. <br/><br/><em>Fra Hartmann Schedel : Liber Chronicarum. Utgitt av Anton Koberger i Nürnberg i 1493.“It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum —and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.†Wikipedia.The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger the godfather of Albrecht Dürer who in the year of Dürer's birth in 1471 ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany eventually owning 24 printing presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad from Lyon to Budapest. Wikipedia.The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut then Nuremberg's leading artist in various media provided the unprecedented 1809 woodcut illustrations. Wikipedia.Utbedret rift ved nedre marg.Tear repaired at lower margin. </em> unknown
18902Undated 1920s and with place not stated. 4to 71 pp with one 12mo page at end. In poor condition damp damaged and detached from green cloth covers but with texts legible and complete. Manuscript table of contents on recto of first leaf describes nine tales in German told by Ascher Horowitz and T. Holpern on first 51 pp: 'Jewish Tales from Jerusalem 1 Dear Aschmadai 2 Reb Itzchak Alchonon der Heilige 3 Ein Brief zu Gott 4 Die Hyaene 5 Die Hungersnoth in Jerusalem 6 Der Reich Mann mit seinen Soehnen 7 Der Mann der neimals sorgte 8 Der Edelmann Ahron beim Graefen von Polen 9 Wie ein Rabbiner seine Tochter verheiratete.' These are followed by 'King Artus' in English apparently transcribed from 'Magazin ed. Berliner XII 1885 Hebrew p. I-II'. The 8vo leaf carries a manuscript page of translation into English. For the mediaeval tale 'King Artus' the only known copy of which is in the Vatican Library see Curt Leviant 'King Artus: A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279' Syracuse University Press 2003. No record of any of the other nine pieces in this collection or of Ascher Horowtiz or T. Halpern on COPAC. Undated (1920s?) and with place not stated. hardcover
1962202311London : Palestine Exploration Fund 1962-1975 1962. First Edition. Hardback. 24 issues of the Palestine exploration quarterly published semi-annually between 1963 and 1975. 20 issues professionally bound in 10 fine gilt-blocked cloth bindings; 4 issues in the original near fine stiff-card wrappers with some very slight edge nicks and dust-dulling. Some minor library marks remain. Overall remains particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description: 24v. : illus. some fold. maps plates elevations plans ; 25 cm. Subjects: Palestine Exploration Fund - Periodicals. Excavations Archaeology - Periodicals - Palestine. Palestine - Archaeology - Antiquities - History - Periodicals - Lebanon - Syria - Israel - Jordan - Middle East. Notes: ""Embodying the Quarterly statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund."" --title page of each issue. Contents: Frequency: published semi-annually. Continues: Quarterly of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Referenced by: Art index 0004-3222. Referenced by: New Testament abstracts 0028-6877. Referenced by: Old Testament abstracts 0364-8591. Referenced by: Religion index one. Periodicals 0149-8428 1949- . London : Palestine Exploration Fund, 1962-1975 hardcover
1900206431900. Unidentified photographers Palestine stereoview archive ca. 1900-1930 documents religious geography pilgrimage activity and daily life in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British Mandatory periods supporting research into colonial visual culture Western educational media and representations of the Holy Land. The archive reflects the widespread use of stereoscopic imagery in classrooms and lecture circuits where photographic views of biblical sites and contemporary inhabitants were circulated to shape Western understanding of the region. The images foreground Christian pilgrimage locations while also incorporating local populations and landscapes offering a layered record of how Palestine was visually interpreted for foreign audiences in the early twentieth century.<br /> Twenty-one albumen stereoview photographs primarily produced by Keystone View Company and Underwood & Underwood depicting locations across Palestine including Jerusalem Bethlehem Nazareth and surrounding regions. Views include the Mount of Olives pilgrims walking along the Via Dolorosa the Garden of Gethsemane and the village of Siloam Silwan. Landscape images show the plains of Jericho the Sharon plain and the hills of Samaria with visible architectural ruins including freestanding stone columns. Several images depict daily activity including a Samaritan woman drawing water from Jacob's Well a cattle drive moving through the Valley of Hinnom and individuals traveling mountainous terrain with pack animals. Interiors and urban edges are suggested through narrow streets and clustered buildings. Many mounts include printed captions on the verso in multiple languages. One Keystone stereoview dated 1909 describes the view from the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem referencing the Valley of Jehoshaphat the Golden Gate and the city's religious divisions. Another caption provides a descriptive overview of Jerusalem's population industries and urban conditions framing the city for an արտաքին educational audience.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period of transition from Ottoman to British control the archive reflects how Palestine was mediated through commercial photography for Western consumption particularly emphasizing biblical associations and pilgrimage routes while presenting local populations within ethnographic and orientalist frameworks. The stereoview format itself functioned as both entertainment and instruction reinforcing spatial and cultural narratives through three-dimensional illusion. Light edge wear and minor surface handling consistent with use; images remain clear with well-preserved contrast. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1928353963Boston: Daniels Printing Co 1928. Folding map folding tables illustrations. 741 1pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue wrappers. Laid into a cloth dropbox. Folding map folding tables illustrations. 741 1pp. 8vo. Daniels Printing Co unknown
1939N4584<p>London: Massada Press 1939 Second impression. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo . 20pp . T<strong>HE JEWISH RESPONSE of the JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE to the British Government's publication of the " McMahon Letters "</strong> published earlier the same month March 16th 1939. <strong>The McMahon Letters include the correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon His Majesty's High Commissioner in Egypt and Hussein Sharif of Mecca between 1915 and 1916 and represent a series of letters that were exchanged during World War I in which the British government agreed to recognize Arab independence after the war in exchange for Hussein's launching the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.</strong> These alleged promises to the Arab side given before the later BALFOUR DECLARATION OF 1917 were therefore considered by the supporters of the JEWISH CAUSE as being without legal validity. <strong>THIS VERY RARE PUBLICATION includes among its documents a STATEMENT BY MCMAHON that the area in which Arab independence was promised DID NOT INCLUDE PALESTINE.</strong> - With a folding coloured map of the ARAB TERRITORIES AND PALESTINE. Lower part of the booklet with 2cm wide strip of water stain NOT AFFECTING THE MAP outside cover with some markings on spine and remains of label removed. OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD COPY. VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT PUBLICATION. <br /><br /></p> Massada Press
149378274Nürnberg 1493. Originalt tresnitt med nyere kolorering. Folio. Arkets størrelse : 276 X 406 cm.Folio. Original woodcut with recent colouring. Size of sheet : 276 X 406 cm. Tysk. <br/><br/><em>Fra Hartmann Schedel : Liber Chronicarum. Utgitt av Anton Koberger i Nürnberg i 1493.“It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum —and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.†Wikipedia.The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger the godfather of Albrecht Dürer who in the year of Dürer's birth in 1471 ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany eventually owning 24 printing presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad from Lyon to Budapest. Wikipedia.The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut then Nuremberg's leading artist in various media provided the unprecedented 1809 woodcut illustrations. Wikipedia.Utbedret rift ved nedre marg.Tear repaired at lower margin. </em> unknown
1929187341London: Office of the Chief Rabbi 1929. First edition of the Chief Rabbi's prayers following the 1929 Hebron massacre in Palestine in which 67 Jews were killed issued as an order of service for synagogues. The massacre was a seminal moment prompting the creation of the Haganah paramilitary organization which became the core of the Israel defence Forces. Along with other riots that year the massacre led to the Shaw Commission which recommended restricting further Jewish immigration to Palestine. Octavo bifolium. Text in Hebrew and English. Creased and a little soiled. A good copy. unknown
1930182213London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1930. First separate edition transmitting the text of a statement by Drummond Shiels Britain's representative to the Permanent Mandates Commission following the publication of the Shaw Report into the 1929 Palestine disturbances. Shiels's statement while accepting of Shaw's findings displays the same equivocation that characterized Whitehall's approach to Palestine in the early 1930s. After 1929 "for the first time the British government publicly began to evaluate the socioeconomic impact of its policy on the Palestinian population. In October 1930 the Colonial Office issued a new statement of policy on Palestine the Passfield White Paper which went a long way toward meeting Arab demands for limitations on Jewish immigration" Miller p. 9. This paper was almost immediately retracted by Downing Street Ramsay MacDonald making reassuring overtures to Chaim Weizmann and "in the end the manner in which the British responded to the events of 1929 created greater suspicion of their intentions among Jews as well as Arabs" Miller p. 10. Octavo pp. 10. Original self-wrappers wire-stitched with pp. 5-6 leaf loosely inserted as issued. Toning and creasing: very good. Ylana Miller Government and Society in Rural Palestine 1920-1948 2014. unknown
65779Jerusalem: Compiled Drawn & Printed under the direction of F.J. Salmon Commissionaer for Lands & Surveys Palestine May 1947. Original lithograph plan of Jerusalem 75 x 60 cm printed in black grey and red surrounded by decorative greek key border vignette title and index folding between publisher's original pale-blue card covers. In excellent condition. This map was compiled drawn and printed in Palestine under the direction of Frederick John Salmon the Commissioner for Lands and Surveys. First published in 1936 with two later editions issued in 1945 a first edition created by Salmon and a second edition with new information supplied by the Department of Antiquities. This is the third edition which is a 'modified reprint' published in May 1947. Notable sites are identified with particular emphasis on Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock the Al Aqsa Mosque and Solomon's Stables now the El-Marwani Mosque are labelled among other sites. Sixty-three sites throughout are numerically labelled and correspond with an index in the lower right. Outside the Old City King David's Tomb and the Church of the Dormition appear on Mt. Zion. Several hospitals schools and cemeteries are also identified. Frederick John Salmon 1882 - July 8 1964 was a British surveyor foreign service officer and soldier. He served in the Ceylon Survey from 1908 through 1930 with the exception of serving on the Western Front during World War I. During the war he made a name for himself by promoting cooperation between surveying and artillery. He was also particularly enthusiastic about printing and distributing updated maps and using aerial photography to update tactical maps. He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in December 1918. Between 1930 and 1933 Salmon directed the Lands and Survey Departments in Cyprus but was named Director of the Palestine Survey at the end of 1932. He began work at the Survey of Palestine on March 27 1933 and began an initiative to begin a modern topographical mapping of Palestine. He was appointed Commissioner for Lands and Surveys of Palestine and as a member of the Advisory Council to the Government of Palestine in 1935. After a thirty-year career surveying sites around the Empire Salmon retired on July 13 1938. His cartographic work is part of the collection at the Royal Geographical Society. In 1937 then Commissioner of Lands and Surveys Lieutenant Colonel F. J. Salmon described the importance of the department's work with respect to allowing land purchases: "In the Ottoman days a title to a piece of land in Palestine was a very vague document. There was no survey recording shape area or position; the description was usually to say the least of it ambiguous and the extent which was the gauge for taxation was almost invariably falsified to save the pocket of the owner. Big blocks were and in areas where there has been no land settlement still are shared by large numbers of owners who have no defined boundaries and who often alter the position of their plots from year to year… To purchase land from a title owner or worse still from an occupier who had no title was a very uncertain business and often still is. The difficulty however is now being solved though very slowly by Land Settlement… The claims are recorded and examined by Palestinian Assistant Settlement Officers while cases of dispute are heard by British Land Settlement Officers… Even in areas that are not under Settlement a land-owner can apply for an authoritative registration of title on a modern survey but if there is a dispute this has to be settled by the Land Court a much slower more expensive and laborious proceeding than an investigation and judgment by a Settlement Officer". Salmon F.J. 1937. "The Modern Geography of Palestine". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 69 1: 33–42. Jerusalem: Compiled, Drawn & Printed under the direction of F.J. Salmon, Commissionaer for Lands & Surveys, Palestine, May, 1947 unknown
1927208311927. Photo album documenting a multi country group यातà¥à¤°à¤¾ in 1927 records interwar travel across southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean including regions under colonial administration and recent political transition. The album follows a group of travelers moving from France through Italy Greece Turkey British administered Palestine and Egypt capturing urban landmarks archaeological sites and local populations encountered along the route. The sequence provides visual evidence of tourism infrastructure mobility and cross cultural observation during a period when former imperial territories such as Constantinople were undergoing redefinition following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states.<br /> <br /> Album contains 93 black and white silver gelatin photographs and four real photo postcards with images ranging approximately from 2.5 x 4 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches and one larger group photograph measuring about 9 x 7 inches. Photographs are mounted on black paper boards with handwritten captions in white pencil and interleaved tissue guards; string bound in patterned cloth boards. The album opens in Avignon with views of St. Pierre's Church and the Palais des Papes then continues through Italy with scenes of Naples and Pompeii as well as shipboard images captioned S.S. Adriatic. Subsequent sections include Athens with views of the Parthenon followed by Constantinople where four postcards depict the harbor the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the Hagia Sophia shortly after the end of the Ottoman Empire. In British Mandate Palestine images show street scenes in Nazareth and Jerusalem including sites along the River Jordan the Western Wall and the Garden of Gethsemane alongside a captioned portrait labeled "A Jewish Maiden." The album concludes in Egypt with extensive views of archaeological and urban sites at Thebes Memphis Cairo and Luxor including the Obelisk of Hatshepsut Edfu Temple the tomb of Amenhotep II the Colossi of Memnon and the pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza where the final group portrait shows the travelers posed on camels.<br /> <br /> Produced during the interwar period the album reflects expanding international tourism networks alongside ongoing European influence in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The juxtaposition of ancient sites modern transport and local populations situates the material within broader histories of archaeology empire and travel culture in the early twentieth century. Light general wear to album and mounts; images well preserved with clear captions; overall very good condition. unknown
