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Auction archive: Lot number 196

WORLD WAR ONE – PALESTINE AND

Valuable Books and Manuscripts
12 Dec 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,014 - US$7,521
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 196

WORLD WAR ONE – PALESTINE AND

Valuable Books and Manuscripts
12 Dec 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,014 - US$7,521
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

WORLD WAR ONE – PALESTINE AND MESOPOTAMIA FRONTS. Press photographs, 1918. An exceptional collection of extremely important press photographs, chronicling the end of the First World War in the Middle Eastern Theatre. The collection focuses on the Palestine Front, showing hauling heavy guns across the Sinai, a knocked-out tank at the battle of Gaza, signalling stations, mounted troops of the Imperial Camel Corps and New Zealand cavalry, trench warfare and dug-outs, and Turkish prisoners. There are some interesting images of Arab troops from the Hejaz from the Arab Revolt, including one of them parading with the Hedjaz flag, and French liaison officers to the Sharifian forces. Included are a number of shots of General Allenby, including one being greeted by the Jewish population of Jerusalem, and another in a car in Damascus. There are over a dozen photographs of the festival of Nebi Musa for 1918, including one with British military officials meeting the Grand Mufti. There are a similar number relating to the Zionist Commission visit to Palestine in April 1918, with images of the likes of Chaim Weizmann, William Ormsby-Gore (later 4th Baron Harlech), James de Rothschild and Edwin Samuel. The next largest group of photographs covers Mesopotamia, with some close-up action scenes of British artillery engaged with the enemy, and British armoured cars coming under Ottoman shelling. A photograph of gas mask drill and scenes of damage to ancient monuments and bridges reflects the past and then-present, while images of large numbers of Turkish prisoners reflects the large amount of manpower committed to the Mesopotamian Front. There are some cityscapes of Constantinople, as well as a a few photographs outside these theatres, including one of Italian troops in Albania, and a camouflaged British machine gun emplacement in the East African Campaign. 259 press photographs, various sizes (most approx. 145 x 190mm, largest 320 x 255mm) mounted on 26 leaves with many mounted on stubs, most with typescript captions mounted on both rectoes and versoes, some manuscript descriptions on the verso of a few photographs, stamps of British press agencies with some French War Office stamps (some loose leaves and photographs, a few minor tears and folds to a small number of photographs. Quarto (350 x 265 mm). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled-paper covered boards (rubbed).

Auction archive: Lot number 196
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

WORLD WAR ONE – PALESTINE AND MESOPOTAMIA FRONTS. Press photographs, 1918. An exceptional collection of extremely important press photographs, chronicling the end of the First World War in the Middle Eastern Theatre. The collection focuses on the Palestine Front, showing hauling heavy guns across the Sinai, a knocked-out tank at the battle of Gaza, signalling stations, mounted troops of the Imperial Camel Corps and New Zealand cavalry, trench warfare and dug-outs, and Turkish prisoners. There are some interesting images of Arab troops from the Hejaz from the Arab Revolt, including one of them parading with the Hedjaz flag, and French liaison officers to the Sharifian forces. Included are a number of shots of General Allenby, including one being greeted by the Jewish population of Jerusalem, and another in a car in Damascus. There are over a dozen photographs of the festival of Nebi Musa for 1918, including one with British military officials meeting the Grand Mufti. There are a similar number relating to the Zionist Commission visit to Palestine in April 1918, with images of the likes of Chaim Weizmann, William Ormsby-Gore (later 4th Baron Harlech), James de Rothschild and Edwin Samuel. The next largest group of photographs covers Mesopotamia, with some close-up action scenes of British artillery engaged with the enemy, and British armoured cars coming under Ottoman shelling. A photograph of gas mask drill and scenes of damage to ancient monuments and bridges reflects the past and then-present, while images of large numbers of Turkish prisoners reflects the large amount of manpower committed to the Mesopotamian Front. There are some cityscapes of Constantinople, as well as a a few photographs outside these theatres, including one of Italian troops in Albania, and a camouflaged British machine gun emplacement in the East African Campaign. 259 press photographs, various sizes (most approx. 145 x 190mm, largest 320 x 255mm) mounted on 26 leaves with many mounted on stubs, most with typescript captions mounted on both rectoes and versoes, some manuscript descriptions on the verso of a few photographs, stamps of British press agencies with some French War Office stamps (some loose leaves and photographs, a few minor tears and folds to a small number of photographs. Quarto (350 x 265 mm). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled-paper covered boards (rubbed).

Auction archive: Lot number 196
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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