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Hardcover. 4to. xv, 230, [2]pp. Original color-illustrated yellow cloth with brown lettering on cover and red lettering on spine. Binding protected by modern mylar. Color frontispiece. Scarce Czech photographic documentation of Palestine and Transjordan. Profusely illustrated with 21 full-page color and 214 b/w reproductions of photographs by Ludvik Preiss showing people, architecture, landscapes and life in the Holy Land in the mid- to late 1920's. Photographs captioned in Czech, French, English and German. Foreword in Czech by Pavel Rohrbach. Water staining along spine on front board. Last third of bottom corner of pages bumped. Text section with annotations and underlining in pencil by previous owner, easily erasable. Binding in fair to good-, interior in overall very good condition. Scarce.