Palestine

PANORAMAS:
Macdonald, James (attributed). Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. [c.1865], 2-PART, ALBUMEN PRINTS (240 x 545mm.)
Bonfils. "Panorama de Jerusalem". [c.1880s], 3-PART, ALBUMEN PRINTS (220 x 835mm.)
[Anon.] "Jerusalem avec la neige, 27 Janvier 1898". 1898, 2-PART, ALBUMEN PRINTS (228 x 565mm.)

PHOTOBOOKS AND ALBUMS:
Bergheim, P. Views of Jerusalem. [1860s], oblong folio, 44 ALBUMEN PRINTS, including a 3-part folding PANORAMA of Jerusalem, red morocco-backed cloth
Robertson and Beato. Jerusalem. Album Photographique. Constantinople: Köhler & Weiss, [1864], folio, 34 ALBUMEN PRINTS, including 2 folding PANORAMAS of Jerusalem, original cloth, rebacked and repaired
Frith, Francis. Sinai and Palestine. London: William Mackenzie, [c.1862], folio, 37 ALBUMEN PRINTS, including one on additional printed title, contemporary half morocco, restored, worn
Frith & Co. F. Frith’s Photo-Pictures from the Lands of the Bible. [c.1860s-70s], 39 ALBUMEN PRINTS, loose, green morocco portfolio, upper cover titled in gilt, restored
Good, Frank Mason. Holy Land Pictures. London: W.A. Mansell, [c.1875], 50 ALBUMEN PRINTS, including views of Palmyra, dark green half calf, binding worn, upper cover detached
Kitchener, H.H. Photographs of Biblical sites. London, [c.1880], folio, 12 ALBUMEN PRINTS, loose as issued, original blue cloth portfolio, slightly worn and restored
Bonfils. Album Photographies de Terre-Sainte, Jerusalem. [1880s], oblong folio, 72 ALBUMEN PRINTS, olive wood boards, rebacked
[Armenian photographer?] Jerusalem. [c.1880s], oblong folio, 24 ALBUMEN PRINTS (captioned in the image in Armenian and in French on the mounts, olive wood boards, gilt edges, rather rubbed
Zangaki—Méo, B. Album photographies de la Terre Sainte. [c.1880s], oblong folio, 48 ALBUMEN PRINTS, olive wood boards, rebacked
Frith, Sebah, Bonfils, F.M. Good, Photochrom Zurich, American Colony and others. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Constantinople. [c.1880s], oblong folio, 96 photographs (mostly albumen prints, some photochroms), black half roan (worn)
Bonfils, Zangaki, Beato, Fiorillo, and others. Photographs of Palestine and Egypt. [c.1880s], oblong 4to, 60 ALBUMEN PRINTS, black half calf, some wear, rubbed
Tristram, H.B. Pathways of Palestine. London: Sampson Low, [1881-82], 2 volumes, 4to, 45 CARBON PRINTS by Frank Mason Good, original cloth, bindings restored
Stewart, C.M. Photogravures of the Holy Land. Cincinnati & Chicago, 1891, oblong 4to, 50 photogravures, original cloth, rebacked
Bonfils, Photochrom Zurich, Fiorillo and others. “Holy Land”. [c.1890s], oblong 4to, 100 photographs (mostly albumen prints and 10 photochroms), vellum gilt
Photochrom Zurich, and Bonfils. “Palestine, Avril, 1906”. [c.1890s-1906], oblong folio, 108 photographs, 77 PHOTOCHROMS and 31 ALBUMEN PRINTS, black half morocco
Halladjian, J.H. Palestina. [c.1900], oblong 4to, 30 COLLOTYPES, black half roan, rubbed
Bonfils & Co. Palestine. [c.1890s], 21 collotypes mounted on card, loose in a contemporary cloth portfolio, rebacked
Photochrom Zurich. Palestine. [c.1890s], oblong 4to, 30 photochroms, olive wood boards, gilt edges, rebacked
Photochrom Zurich and Dumas. Album photographies de la Terre Sainte, arrangées … par Boulos Méo. [c.1890s], oblong folio, 48 photochroms, olive wood boards, rebacked
American Colony. Photographs of the Holy Land [title also in French and German]. [c.1880s], oblong 4to, 36 ALBUMEN PRINTS, olive wood boards
American Colony—Vester, F. Photographs of the Holy Land. [c.1900], oblong 8vo, 36 ALBUMEN PRINTS, olive wood boards, spine worn, covers detached
American Colony—Marroum, F. F. Photographies de Terre Sainte. [c.1900], oblong 8vo, 48 ALBUMEN PRINTS, olive wood boards

INDIVIDUAL PRINTS:
Salzman, Auguste. "Beit-lehm". [c.1863], SALTED PAPER PRINT (234 x 324mm.)
Bergheim, P. Gethsemane. [c.1860s], ALBUMEN PRINT (250 x 310mm.)
Macdonald, James. Jerusalem and environs. [c.1865], 4 ALBUMEN PRINTS (155 x 205mm.)
Palestine Exploration Fund. 22 ALBUMEN PRINTS (average 155 x 210mm., or the reverse)
Bergheim, P. Views of Jerusalem. [c.1870s], 19 ALBUMEN PRINTS (190 x 240mm.)
Bonfils (and attributed to). Views in Palestine. [c.1870s-80s], 79 ALBUMEN PRINTS (225 x 280mm., or the reverse), each mounted on thick gilt-edged mounts
Dumas. 4 ALBUMEN PRINTS (mostly 210 x 270mm.)
American Colony. Views in Palestine. [c.1890s], 24 ALBUMEN PRINTS (106 x 146mm., or the reverse)
Zangaki. Palestine. [c.1880s], 33 ALBUMEN PRINTS (230 x 288mm.), and 17 later copy prints (loose in a cream cloth portfolio)
Nicholls, Sophie. Portraits and views. [early 1900s], 13 PHOTOGRAVURES, including 7 panoramas

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN PALESTINE BY MANY OF THE MOST RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, TOGETHER WITH IMAGES OF SYRIA, LEBANON, JORDAN, TURKEY AND EGYPT. The focus of this collection is on the most important sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, showing holy sites, ancient buildings, towns, cities, landscapes and portraits of the people, and scenes of everyday life. The collection includes rare published photobooks, early panoramas of Jerusalem, private albums of photographs, and individual prints.