Frank Scholten – La Palestine Illustrée – Two Volumes with Photographs of Jaffa – Paris, 1929

Frank Scholten – La Palestine Illustrée – Two Volumes with Photographs of Jaffa – Paris, 1929
La Palestine Illustrée by Francois Scholten. Paris: Jean Budry & Co., [1929]. French. Two volumes.
Two volumes containing high-quality photographs of the city of Jaffa and its environs, by Frank (Francois) Scholten (1881–1942), including photographs of local inhabitants, craftsmen and visitors, members of all the ethnic and religious groups (Albert Einstein appears in one photograph), landscapes, fruits and vegetation, and more.
The first volume is titled "La Porte D'Entrée Jaffa" [Entry gate to Jaffa] and compiles 449 photographs. The second volume is titled "Jaffa La Belle" [Beautiful Jaffa] and compiles 371 photographs. A relevant verse from the Bible, the Talmud, or the Koran is printed beside each photograph. An additional photograph is pasted on each of the front covers. Edition of 1000 copies (the volumes presented here are not numbered).
Volume I: XXII, 203, XXVI-XXXVI , [1] pp + [202] plates. Volume II: [4], XIV, 169, XV-XXIII, [1] pp + [168] plates. Approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming to a number of leaves at the end of the second volume. Tears and open tears to paper covers. Front cover of first volume and back cover of second volume are detached. Some of the leaves of first volume are loose.
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