Herbarium. Holy Land Album - Views and Flowers: Artificial Pictures of the Holy Places Views of Old and New Jerusalem, Specimens of Flowers from the Holy Land.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Jerusalem

c. 1900

Text in Hebrew, English, German, French and Russian. Hebrew color-printed map of Palestine on verso of title page. Ten cards with designs of pressed flowers and leaves, each captioned in Hebrew and English. On verso of each images of Eretz Israel neighborhoods and sites by printer/lithographer A. Monsohn . Floral endpages. The whole bound in carved olive-wood binding.

Rare and charming series of pressed flower dioramas, featuring the flowers of Eretz Israel, carefully manipulated in a paper-cut method, creating floral bouquets, arrangements, wreaths and natural scenes. Detailed locations include Mount Zion, Mount Hermon, Shiloah, Jewish colonies of Jerusalem, etc. all with flowers of the respective areas. Clever inclusion of a Hebrew Map of Eretz Israel as point of reference for the reader. The final card’s verso serves as a remembrance of the Destruction of the Temple.