932 - Orient - Palestine - Frith, Francis. *Sinai and Palestine*. With a lithographed title page featuring an albumen vignette and 36 mounted original albumen plates. London, William Mackenzie, 1862. 2 leaves (title and contents), 36 leaves, 45 x 33 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding with gold-stamped spine and title on the cover, as well as gold edging all around (worn, bumped, and scuffed).

Orient - Palestine - Frith, Francis. *Sinai and Palestine*. With a lithographed title page featuring an albumen vignette and 36 mounted original albumen plates. London, William Mackenzie, 1862. 2 leaves (title and contents), 36 leaves, 45 x 33 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding with gold-stamped spine and title on the cover, as well as gold edging all around (worn, bumped, and scuffed). Manchip White XIX – Gernsheim 88. – Second edition of this rare work by the famous pioneer and landscape photographer Francis Frith (1822–1898). – "From the very beginning, he specialized in landscapes, some of which he photographed on very large plates. In 1856, he undertook his first trip to Egypt, followed by a second in 1857 and a third in 1859 ... According to Frith, pictorial reports from the Near and Far East became a sort of ‘fashion’ that photographers such as Bourne and Bedford did not wish to ignore.” (Kirchbaum, p. 67). - “Frith’s next project, a four-volume, 148-albumen-print reissue of the *Egypt and Palestine* and *Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt* photographs … was awarded a prize medal at the 1862 International Exhibition in London.” (Manchip White, p. XIX). - The photographs depicting views of Jerusalem (13), Baalbek (3), Damascus (3), Gaza (2), Hebron (2), Tiberias (2), Nablus, Nazareth, etc., are partially signed and numbered on the negative. Each of the albumen prints, mounted on sturdy vellum and featuring printed captions, is followed by a text sheet with explanatory notes. - Slightly browned and stained; the endpapers and the first and last pages have small signs of insect damage along the lower edge; the last pages have water stains in the upper corner; 1 page (“View of Hebron”) is loose. *