Palestine
Beirut: Bonfils & Cie. ca.1896. Hardcover. Folio. Twenty Plates albumen photographs (4 1/2" x 6 1/2"). Each photo is titled with the printed location and biblical verse mounted on heavy gray card stock. Each card stock is resting in a color illustrated cloth portfolio with folding flaps. The captivating images of the Holy Land were taken by famous traveler and French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885). Titled plates accompanied with captions from the Old and New Testament. Sporadic foxing and sunning on mounts, photogravures clean and bright. Bottom right corner of "Dead Sea" plate chipped. Drawing in pencil on verso of "Mount Zion" plate. Some age wear and minor staining on exterior of portfolio. Staining and foxing on portfolio interior and folding flaps, bottom flap missing. Portfolio in good, mounts in good-, photogravures in near fine to fine condition. vg. Item #28762
List of plates: Jews Walling Place / Frontside of the Holy Sepulchre / Jaffa (Jappa) / Jericho / The Jordan / Place of Salomon's Temple / Tiberias / Capernaum / Mount Zion / Bethanie / Cana of Galilee / Bethlehem (General View) / Bethlehem / Mount of Olives / Valley of Jehoshaphat / Damascus Gate / The Cedars (Mt. Lebanon) / Tomb of Lazarus / Dead Sea / Nazareth`.
Price: $750.00