Album of Pressed Flowers with Color Postcards Showing Views and Sites in Palestine – Olive-Wood Binding with an ...

Album of Pressed Flowers with Color Postcards Showing Views and Sites in Palestine – Olive-Wood Binding with an Arabic Inscription – 19th Century or Early 20th Century
Flowers of the Holy Land / Fleurs de Terre Sainte / Blumen aus dem Heiligen Lande. Jerusalem, [19th century or early 20th century]. English, German and French.
The album contains arrangements of pressed flowers and color (photochrome) postcards depicting views and sites of Palestine – The Western Wall, The Temple Mount, Mount Tabor, and more. The pressed flowers are accompanied by printed captions in English, German and French, noting where the flowers had been picked.
Carved on the front board is the Dome of the Rock with flowers on both its sides; beneath it an Arabic inscription " " قدس شريف ("Quds Sharif" – Jerusalem).
[13] ff., approx. 21X13 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to pressed flowers. Traces of a sticker on the front board.