Auction 016
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Aug 14, 2018
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LOT 80:
Prince Friedrich Karl in the East – Frankfurt – Late 19th Century – Prints
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Prince Friedrich Karl in the East – Frankfurt – Late 19th Century – Prints
Prinz Friedrich Karl im Morgenlande [Prince Friedrich Karl in the East], by Heinrich Karl Brugsch. Frankfurt: Trowitzsch und Sohn, [circa 1884]. German.
Book documenting the travels of Friedrich Karl, Prince of Prussia, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and other locations. The author, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894), was a German Egyptologist, director of the Egyptology School in Cairo.
The book contains a dozen illustrated plates and additional plates incorporated into the text (signed in the plate: R. Brendamour). The chapter on Palestine is illustrated with landscapes and street scenes in the cities of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, Nazareth and Acre, and one plate showing Jews praying at the Western Wall. Illustrated title page by Brendamour.
[1] leaf, IV, [2], 240 pp + [12] plates, 37 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Sporadic stains and tears to leaf edges. Strip of tape on the inner margin of one leaf. Contemporary half-leather decorated binding, slightly stained and torn. Front board starting.
