The earliest photographic documentation of Mecca



SNOUCK HURGRONJE, Christiaan [and Al-Sayyid 'Abd AL-GHAFFAR (photographer)].
Mekka.
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff and Het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 1888.
With: IDEM. Bilder-atlas zu Mekka.
Idem. 2 text volumes and 1 plate volume. Text volumes large 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm), plate volume folio (38 x 29 cm). With 65 mounted collotype photographs, 6 toned lithographic plates (1 folding, 5 full-page), 4 full-page chromolithographic plates, and a letterpress table of contents in the plate volume. Further with 2 folding maps, and 3 genealogical tables in the first text volume. Contemporary half brown buckram, grey paper sides. The plates are kept in the original portfolio of quarter dark brown cloth, beige printed paper sides, and a closing tie in the middle of the fore edge. [1], [1 blank], XXIII, [1], 228; [1], [1 blank], XVIII, 397, [1 blank] pp.; [1], 40 ll. Full description
€ 25,000
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff and Het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 1888.
With: IDEM. Bilder-atlas zu Mekka.
Idem. 2 text volumes and 1 plate volume. Text volumes large 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm), plate volume folio (38 x 29 cm). With 65 mounted collotype photographs, 6 toned lithographic plates (1 folding, 5 full-page), 4 full-page chromolithographic plates, and a letterpress table of contents in the plate volume. Further with 2 folding maps, and 3 genealogical tables in the first text volume. Contemporary half brown buckram, grey paper sides. The plates are kept in the original portfolio of quarter dark brown cloth, beige printed paper sides, and a closing tie in the middle of the fore edge. [1], [1 blank], XXIII, [1], 228; [1], [1 blank], XVIII, 397, [1 blank] pp.; [1], 40 ll. Full description