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Bidding Information
Lot #    20671
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 11:19:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Photo Album - Palastina
Title (Hebrew)    ארץ ישראל
Author    Jair Morporgo, Chaim Weizman introduction
City    Rome
Publisher    Luciano Morpurgo
Publication Date    1930
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [123] ff. 6 pp. quarto 240:165 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Profusely illustrated pictorial work on the land of Israel. Palastina has two hundred sixty-five photographs of scenes of life in Mandate Israel. The cover states that there are two hundred sixty-five original pictures, perhaps including the cover picture. The photos are preceded by a map of the land followed by an introduction by Chaim Weizman, in German, who became the first president of the state of Israel. Each of the photographs has a bi-lingual English and German caption. The pictures are incredibly varied, beginning with a view of the landscape of Judea near Jerusalem, (settlement of Kiryath Anavim), and including such scenes as a camel and ass harnessed together in tilling the ground, Arabs at prayer, the market at Safed, Passover cleaning at Safed, a group of Jewish women on the banks of Lake Tiberius, a seller of the newspaper Davar, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and two other rabbis, old Jew at Hebron, Bir-es-Seba’s shops, the entrance of General Allenby at the head of the allied troops, Dwellings for emigrants at Haifa, Tel-Aviv: Allenby Street, A young Jewish farmer returning from the fields, a mosaic floor in the ancient synagogue of Beth-Alpha, and much more. The vast majority of the photos are full page photographs.
          
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הכתובות תחת התמונות באנגלית ובגרמנית. 6 עמ': ביקורת מן העיתונות על ספריו של המחבר, באיטלקית.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0147318
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica