(Palestine - 10 Pictures)

RABAN, ZE’EV.

(Jerusalem

1930’s)

Ten plates reproducing legendary views of Biblical cities in an exceptionally charming Jugendstil-Orientalist style. As issued, without title. Bound in gilt-ruled calf with central metal-relief depicting the Tomb of Rachel

Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Raban Remembered (1982) no. 71; IMC, Bezalel 1370 (color plate 18)

Tipped to opening blank, a typed letter signed (with seal) from the Town Clerk of the Municipal Corporation of Tel Aviv: “To Captain Booth-Tucker, With Best Xmas & New Year’s Wishes: In Modest token of appreciation of your efforts to facilitate matters for the people of Tel Aviv. Xmas, 1938.”