Oblong 4to. Half leather with brick cloth binding, gilt stamped with black border and design, lightly stained and rubbed at spine extremities, colour printed titles. Volume I: Judaea and Galilaea, 1 colour map of Palaestina, 1 topographical Plan of Jerusalem, 146 photogravures / Volume II: Syria, Cyprus, and Aegyptus (Egypt), 1 colour map of ‘Terrae Sanctae Missio’, 147-263 photogravures. Each photogravure mounted within gilt-printed mat boards and accompanied with explanatory text on facing page in Latin, Italian, English, French and German, indices, volume 2 with weak spine, shelf label at top spines, 2 small stamps on front fly leaves, light foxing to endpapers, otherwise both images and text well preserved and in very good condition, Gualassini e Bertarelli, Milan, first edition, 1893.

Synopsis

The albums encompasses the Franciscan missions throughout the Middle East. An extraordinary record of Franciscan churches, schools, priests and pupils, with architectural and interior views of churches and sanctuaries. Areas illustrated in Volume I: Jerusalem, Bethany, Bethlehem, Tiberias, Galilee, Ramleh, Jericho (Ariha), Nazareth, Jaffa, Acre. In Volume II: Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Harissa, Tripoli, Lattakia, Damascus, Aleppo, Antioch, Alexandria, Kafr-el-Zajat, Mansura, Cairo, Port Said, Constantinople, Larnaka, Limassol and others.