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Moritz, B.
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1916
- paper
Oblong folio (300 x 400mm.), 106 photographically reproduced images with captions on 50 card mounts, numbered 1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a (2 photos) and 95a, the images of varying sizes, one map (numbered 63a), loose as issued with 16pp. descriptive text in original cloth-backed boards portfolio, lettered in gilt on upper cover, portfolio rubbed and with some repairs
Catalogue Note
A rare photographic record of major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The majority of the images are after photographs taken by the author during travels in the area made between 1905 and 1915. For those areas which the author was unable to visit (the northern part of the Hijaz, Mecca and Medina) the author relied on photographs taken by Turkish friends.
The images include, amongst others: scenes showing the building of the Hijaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina (begun in 1900 and completed in 1908); views of Medina, Mecca, Jeddah, Petra and Jerusalem.