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Bidding Information
Lot #    25814
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:05:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    La Palestine Illustrée
Author    [First Ed.] Francois Scholten
City    Paris
Publisher    Jean Budry & Cie
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Two volumes, xxxvi, 203, plus 200 unnumbered pages of illustrations; xxiii, 169, plus 166 unnumbered pages of illustrations. With a total of 820 (helio)gravures, printed in tinted ink. Footnotes, concordances. Light age staining, spotting. A very good set bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper over boards, edges bumped.
          
Paragraph 1    Copy no. 43 of the initial 1 - 1000 numbered print run.
          
Detailed
Description		    Title: a Palestine illustrée. Tableau complet de la Terre Sainte par la photographie, évoquant les souvenirs de la Bible, du Talmud et du Coran, et se rapportant au passé comme au présent. Volume I: La porte d’entrée Jaffa. Volume II: Jaffa la belle.

A visual celebration of Palestine (Erez Israel) at the turn of the century, which combines excellent photography, superb printing, and a sensitive editor’s eye. Included cross-reference between modern iconography and Biblical sources.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
France:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    French
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica
Other:    Photo