Aerial Photographs by Zoltan Kluger - Gift by Zalman Schocken for his 60th Birthday

Aerial Photographs by Zoltan Kluger - Gift by Zalman Schocken for his 60th Birthday
Four professional aerial photographs [out of six originally] by photographer Zoltan Kluger; gift by Zalman Schocken to his friends and congratulators on his sixtieth birthday. Jerusalem, June, 1938.
The photographs are mounted on cardboard, titled in German on the reverse and inserted in a cloth covered portfolio. The photographs depict: Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv (enclosed is a transparency for placing on the photographs with drawing of the important buildings and their names), Haifa and the port, Jordan River near Jericho and Kfar Yehezkel. Enclosed are two leaves, on one appears a printed greeting "I am happy to send to his honor, even if belatedly, a collection of aerial photographs from Palestine as a small token for his kind greeting on my sixtieth birthday" and on the other leaf appears a list of the photographs (German). On the dedication leaf Schocken added a personal greeting, written and signed by hand. For more information about the different editions of these photographs, see enclosed material (Hebrew).
4 photographs (out of six), 22.5X28.5 cm. Good condition. Some defects (mainly at margins). Stains on reverse. Creases, defects and tears at margins of transparency. Slight stains and defects to portfolio.