Views of the Holy Land (ca 1865-1870). Album... - Lot 504 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

Views of the Holy Land (ca 1865-1870). Album comprising 85 period prints pasted in full on cardboard and mounted on tabs. The photographs, titled in English in black ink, are by Peter Bergheim (12 signed), Félix Bonfils (4 signed), Frank Mason Good (1 signed); the majority are unsigned. Photo sizes: from 16 x 24 cm to 22 x 29 cm (+ 10 small prints). Binding heavily worn, boards detached, interior very fresh. Includes views of the villages of Bethany, Bethlehem, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Pool of Bethesda, Akeldama, the Damascus Gate, the Mosque of Omar, the pulpit of the Mosque of Omar, the St. Stephen's Gate, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Mount of Olives, the ruins of the Antonia Tower, the Holy Sepulchre, the Jaffa Gate, the Russian and Evangelical churches, the Church of St. Anne in Jerusalem, Nablous, ancient Shechem, the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the Jordan River, the Mar Saba monastery, Jerusalem's Golden Gate, the Wailing Wall, the Church of the Nativity, the Tower of the 40 Martyrs in Ramallah, Mount Hebron, Banias, the streams flowing into the Jordan, Mount of the Bad Council, Nazareth, Tiberias, Jacob's Well, Banias, the ancient city of Caesarea Philippi, the Natural Bridge (Lebanon), the site of Bethphage, the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, the Monument of Absalom, the tombs of John and Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the Sepulchre of the Virgin Mary, Sebastiya, Mount Scopus, Cana of Galilee, the site of Capernaum, Bethel, the Plain of Esdrelon, Magdala (Sea of Galilee), fishermen's boats on the Sea of Galilee, the Tower of David in Jerusalem, the Tomb of the Judges in Jerusalem, the Pool of Siloam, the Cedars of Lebanon, the Sinai Desert, the Sea of Galilee, the Convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Zion, Mount Tabor, the Monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai, Rachel's Tomb, as well as details of churches and a few portraits of local inhabitants. A very fine set of images of Jerusalem and the surrounding region.