LIEUT. HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER (1850-1916)

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LIEUT. HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER (1850-1916)

Photographs of Biblical Sites, London: Society's Office and Richard Bently & Son, [1875]

With twelve albumen prints, each approx. 5 3/8 x 7¾ in. to 6 x 8 in. or the reverse, mounted one-per-page, descriptive text, printed list of illustrations, preface and title page with inscription [?] Hira Lavy Hall with the author's compliments and kind regards on front blank, blue cloth (partially disbound), ruled in black with stylised foliate design, titled in gilt, g.e., lge. 4to.

Literature

Gernsheim, Incunabula, no. 616 (illus.); Perez, Focus East, pp. 183-184, plate nos. 198, 199

Lot Essay

The future Lord Kitchener was sent to the Near East in 1874 on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund and produced fifty photographs, of which a selection of twelve was published in 1875. Perez states, Kitchener's photographs might not be seen as a milestone in Near Eastern photography.....but they offer one of the best examples of the British attitude in the Holy Land and the frame of mind of the photographers who surveyed the area through the camera, with the Bible in mind.

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