Lot 157
157
SNOUCK HURGRONJE, C. Bilderatlas zu Mekka. The Hague, Nijhoff, 1888. W. 65 mounted collotypes on 30 lvs., 10 lithogr. (4 cold. & 6 tinted, of which 1 double-p.). Fol. Or. clothbacked portfol. (Portfol. dam./loose, ties fail, without content leaf, but w. all plates (plate I twice!), a bit browned/foxed in places). -- Added: Id. Ethnographisches aus Mekka. (Separat-Abdr. aus "Int. Archiv für Ethnographie"). 1888. pp. 146-154. W. 4 cold. lithogr. plates. Fol. Old (worn/dam.) clothbacked brds. -- (2).
Atlas volume only. The rare volume of plates is unique in that they contain the first detailed photographs of Mecca, the first portraits of Meccans of different social classes (from sheiks, sharifs, members of the middle class to slaves), and the first portraits of hajjis from different parts of the world, from Yemen to Java. - Cf. D. v.d. Wal. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: The first Western photographer in Mecca, 1884-85. (2011); Henze V, 177.€ 3000
result € 6500
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