A GROUP OF EIGHT BOOK PLATES WITH IMAGES OF HIJAZI...
A GROUP OF EIGHT BOOK PLATES WITH IMAGES OF HIJAZI MEN AND THE HAMIDIYAH
Published in Leida, Germany, 1888-1889
Black and white, lettered in German, depicting the inhabitants of Jeddah; from the publications illustrated with photographs by the Dutch Orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka. Mit kurzem erläuternden Text, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1889, a portfolio comprising 18 plates with collotype photographs taken during Snouck Hurgronje’s research journey to Jeddah and Mecca between August 1884 and August 1885, the latter was issued as a supplement to the Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka, the pictorial atlas accompanying his two-volume study of Mecca, published in 1888; together, these works document the history of the Holy City, the origins of Islam, early religious traditions and practices, and the development of the first Islamic communities.
36cm x 27.5cm
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Property of a private American collector.
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A GROUP OF EIGHT BOOK PLATES WITH IMAGES OF HIJAZI MEN AND THE HAMIDIYAH
Published in Leida, Germany, 1888-1889
Black and white, lettered in German, depicting the inhabitants of Jeddah; from the publications illustrated with photographs by the Dutch Orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka. Mit kurzem erläuternden Text, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1889, a portfolio comprising 18 plates with collotype photographs taken during Snouck Hurgronje’s research journey to Jeddah and Mecca between August 1884 and August 1885, the latter was issued as a supplement to the Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka, the pictorial atlas accompanying his two-volume study of Mecca, published in 1888; together, these works document the history of the Holy City, the origins of Islam, early religious traditions and practices, and the development of the first Islamic communities.
36cm x 27.5cm
Provenance:
Property of a private American collector.
Estimate
Time, Location
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