Album in Olive Wood Binding - Colorful Prints and Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land - Large Format

Album in Olive Wood Binding - Colorful Prints and Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land - Large Format
Jerusalem, Fleurs De Terre Sainte, Flowers of The Holy Land, Blumen aus dem Heiligen Lande, large album with color prints and pressed flower arrangements. [Beirut?, ca. early 20th century].
The album contains seventeen prints of sites in Palestine (the Western Wall, the Mount of Olives, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Port, Bethlehem, Hebron, Haifa Bay and other sites), and seventeen pressed flower arrangements, mounted on facing pages.
Printed on the bottom margins of each print is the name of the site (in French). Some also bear the inscription: T. R. Dumas Et Fils Editeurs, Beyrouth (Syrie) [Tancrède Dumas?].
The album is bound in a fine olive wood binding with a leather spine. Carved on the front of the binding is a Jerusalem cross inside a colorful frame made with very delicate inlay work. Printed on the back binding is the inscription "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew, inside a frame identical to the one on the front binding.
Approx. 32X23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and defects (mostly to margins; the prints are clean). Small tears to margins. A few flowers and leaves are detached. Pen scribble on the margins of one of the leaves. Long tear to inner margins of front endpaper. Front binding detached, with a crack along its breadth. Piece missing from one of the corners of the back binding. Defects to spine.