[Rarebooks] FS c1926_Album Tel-Aviv Views_Abraham SOSKIN_Israel_Meir Dizengoff signed

[Levant Books]

Offering today: Album of Tel-Aviv Views


An album with 70 printed reproductions of photographs of Tel-Aviv by Abraham Soskin - documenting from the "Meeting founding Tel-Aviv” in 1908 until 1926 - plus two pages of photos of founders, plus two pages of maps (one of Tel-Aviv when it was founded and the other of Tel-Aviv in 1926) plus introduction and reproduction of emblem of Tel Aviv.


Introduction and captions in Hebrew, English and German.


Signed and dated (16 December 1929) by Meir Dizengoff, President of “Township of Tel Aviv” with the official stamp of Township of Tel-Aviv (in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.) Meir Dizengoff (1861 – 1936) was a Zionist politician and the first president/mayor of Tel Aviv, Israel, serving from 1922 to 1936.


Size: 6.5” x 9” / approx: 16.5 x 23 cm.  Condition Excellent - slight wear to covers. Uncracked hinges and endpapers. No writing (other than Dizengoff’s signature), erasures, tears, or repairs. Some age toning to pages. A Near Fine copy.

>From Haaretz: “Soskin was born in Russia and came to Palestine in 1905 and seven years later established himself as a photographer, opening a studio on Herzl Street in Tel Aviv. Soskin was considered the municipal photographer: He often took pictures in Tel Aviv at various official events (his main client was the Tel Aviv Committee). His photographs were given as gifts to senior officials and to national institutions; thousands of postcards were printed from his photos, and everyone knew him. Today he is considered the greatest documenter of the city from its founding until the mid-1920s.... From 1914 to 1933 Soskin maintained his studio at 24 Herzl Street, down the block from the new town’s principal landmark, the Herzliah Gymnasium. There, in a studio named "Photographia A. Soskin" he worked until 1933.

US$ 850.—
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Robert Azzi

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