Scenes in the east TWELVE COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS - A travel book that includes 12 color lithographs of landscapes in Palestine by the great researcher Nature of the Land of Israel in the 19th century H. B. Tristram. London 1887 - Original cover with gilt stamping, gilt leaf cutting.
The book contains lithographic plates with views of Silwan, Jericho, Jaffa, the Jordan River, Tiberias, Sidon, sites in Jerusalem, Gaza, and others. In this edition, a lithograph of the city of Jaffa appeared for the first time with a look at the empty sands of the place on which the city of Tel Aviv was to be built before the establishment of Ahuzat Beit.
49 p. 29 cm. All lithographs are protected with parchment paper. Ex-libris of the College of Training of S. Catherine Tottenham with the date 1887. And another ex-libris 'from Elijah HaCohn books (Israel Prize winner). Stains. Some of the pages are detached. good - moderate condition.
