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Opening $ 500
Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,000
Album De Terre Sainte [Picture Album from the Holy Land]. Paris. [Beginning of the 20th Century]
[3] leaves, 492 pages, [3] leaves. Length is greater than width, 33x27 cm. French. Printed on quality paper. 492 black and white eye-catching pictures of the Holy Land. Each picture is printed on a complete page. A detailed caption is printed under each picture. Index of pictures at the end of the book. Scenic pictures from all over the Holy Land, the people of the Holy Land and authentic pictures of Jews from the era.
Magnificent album. Original, half-leather binding, with leather corners. Embossed gilt title. Gilt cut leaves. Tear to leaf 397, without loss. Fine-very fine condition.
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Maps & Travelogues 
Opening $ 250
Estimate $ 400 - $ 500
Blumen u. Ansichten aus dem Heiligen Lande. Flowers and views of the Holy Land, Jerusalem. Jerusalem by A. Leib Kahana. [c. 1920].
[13] cardboard leaves. 16.5x10.5 cm.
Album includes colored illustrations of holy sites and a collection of dried flowers. A Hebrew verse relating the holy site from where the flower was picked is printed on each leaf, along with the name of the flower in Hebrew, English, French, German and Russian. With protective parchment paper. The title page is in gold-colored ink, in German and English. Original olive wood binding with a decorative border and the text: Jerusalem.
The pictures are in fine condition. A small selection of the flowers are incomplete. Moderate-fine condition.
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Maps & Travelogues 
Opening $ 200
Estimate $ 300 - $ 400
The Holy Land Juerusalem. [Jerusalem, c. 1920].
[12] leaves. 13x9 cm. The album includes colored photographs of holy sites and a collection of dried plants with captions in English, French, German, Arabic and Russia. Protective parchment paper. English title page in colored ink, with an illustration of Jerusalem's Old City with a "Jerusalem's Cross" [Crusader's Cross]. The words 'souvenir from the Holy Land' is printed on the title page in six languages. Original illustrated olive wood binding. Bound with a lace. Very fine condition.
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Maps & Travelogues 
Opening $ 800
Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,400
Black and white engraving by Marc Chagall.
27x20 cm., 43x35 cm. with margins. Numbered 51/110. Signed in pencil.
Matted. Very fine condition.
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Maps & Travelogues