RARE album of 100 b&w topographic aerial photographs selected and annotated by Gustaf Hermann Dalman (1855-1941) - an eminent German Lutheran theologian and orientalist who did extensive field work in Palestine before the First World War, collecting inscriptions, poetry, and proverbs, as well as physical articles illustrating the life of the indigenous farmers and herders of the country, including rock and plant samples, house and farm tools, ceramics, small archaeological finds, and ceramics. A pioneering scholar of biblical and early post-biblical Aramaic, he published an authoritative grammar (1894) and dictionary (1901). His collection of 15,000 historic photographs and 5,000 books, including rare 16th century prints, and maps formed the basis of the Gustaf Dalman Institute at Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität, Greifswald, which commemorates and continues his work. Includes the plastic grid used to examine the plates, tissue overlays with geographical features for the first two aerial photographs, fold-out Palestine map and topographical index. 325x230mm. 158 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover. Rear cover bottom right corner/edge stained. Cover and spine faded and slightly dirty. Cover bottom corners and spine edges slightly bumped. Small hole on spine bottom edge. Palestine fold-out map hinges creased. Binding loose and visible between some pages. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book of old aerial photographs of British-ruled Palestine taken on behalf of the German Society for the Exploration of Palestine is otherwise in good condition.