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Sadiq Bey, Muhammad / Snouck Hurgronje, Christian / Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar.MareMagnum

[5 photographic lantern slides of Mecca and Medina (silver gelatin glass positives), taken in the years 1880 to 1889]. Stuttgart, Lichtbilderverlag Theodor Benzinger, [ca. 1910].

5 glass positive lantern slides (85 × 100 mm), each with a black paper mask, paper tape around the edges, a letterpress slip at the foot giving the publisher's name and city, and a slip at the head with the manuscript title. Stored in a contemporary purpose-made wooden box with brass fittings, with the word "Mekka" on the top of the hinged lid. Five of the earliest and best photographs of Mecca and Medina, beautifully preserved as silver gelatin glass plates, including the first photograph of the Ka'ba in Mecca's Masjid al-Haram (Great Mosque). Two of the photographs were taken by the first person to photograph Mecca and Medina, the Egyptian Colonel Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832-1902), who made them in 1880 for the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The others were taken by the first European to photograph Mecca, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffâr, who worked closely with him. Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), one of the greatest pioneering Dutch Arabists, converted to Islam and lived in Mecca from January to about July 1885. The photographs by these three men are best known and most frequently reproduced from the published collotype facsimiles, while the rare surviving early albumen prints are usually faded or otherwise in bad condition. The present five plates, sold as lantern slides for magic lantern presentations, are therefore of the greatest importance as well-preserved high quality specimens of these famous photographs, providing the best early images of the mosques of Mecca and Medina. - All five slides are in very good condition, with only a bit of dust and the occasional smudge on the glass. They show: 1) The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca (the Great Mosque); 2) a closer view of the Ka'ba in Mecca; 3) the portrait of an unidentified Mu'ezzin in Mecca; 4) a portrait of an unidentified East Indian pilgrim; 5) the al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina (the Prophet's Mosque). Cf. D. v.d. Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (2011); J. J. Witkam, new introduction to the 2007 reprint of the 1931 English translation of Hurgronje, Mekka.

Inlibris · Áustria€ 35.000,00

[Paleontology - Geology - Palestine] Blake, George Stanfield, Leslie Reginald Cox, and others.MareMagnum

[A collection of original government correspondence]. Fossils Mesozoic-Age (secondary). London & Jerusalem, 1924-1938.

Folio (ca. 27 x 36 cm). [255] ll. With 13 illustrations, mostly showing different soil profiles relating to the fossils, including 10 drawn by hand. In a pink cardboard portfolio entitled "Fossils Mesozoic-Age (secondary)", including another portfolio with blue paper wrappers. Extensive correspondence addressed to George Stanfield Blake, mainly from Leslie Reginald Cox, discussing fossil specimens. Blake's additional correspondents were, among others, the deputy director of the "laboratoire de paleontologie" of the French national museum of natural history J. Coltreau and the director of the British museum of natural history C. Tate Regan. - Blake (1876-1940) was a British mineral and mining geologist and was from 1922 to 1939 the geological advisor to the Mandatory Government of Palestine, in which capacity he wrote and received the letters collected in the present portfolio. His work was essential, according to Israeli geologist Picard and others, for the expansion of geological knowledge of Palestine and Transjordan and their natural assets. Cox (1897-1965) was a British palaeontologist and malacologist (a specialist in molluscs), who was attached to the British museum of natural history and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. - Most of the letters are typed copies of letters with autograph signatures, except for a few autograph letters. The collection also includes a few illustrations of soil profiles and even some notes of thanks from the trustees of the British museum of natural history addressed to Blake, thanking him for his donations of information on fossils and the specimens themselves. - Paper wrappers show signs of wear, wrappers and documents inside are very slightly discoloured, most leaves are slightly frayed around the edges. Most leaves are numbered in blue pencil and the numbers correspond with the overview of the contents typed on a separate leaf, pasted on the inside of the front pink wrapper.

Inlibris · Áustria€ 4.250,00

Willyams, Cooper.MareMagnum

[A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure. With a description of the Battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798]. [London, J. White, 1802].

Folio (ca. 350 x 493 mm). 17 aquatint plates in original hand colour and one double-page-sized aquatint map of the Mediterranean in original hand colour, all with captions in English. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title and 2 floral ornaments to spine. Marbled endpapers. Collection of 18 of the 43 illustrations from the account of the voyage of HMS Swiftsure and the Battle of the Nile by the British clergyman and artist Willyams (1762-1816), who served as chaplain aboard the ship, a vessel of Admiral Nelson's squadron captained by Benjamin Hallowell Carew. The 17 plates in the present volume show views of the caves of Gibraltar and the Spanish Church in the city, the Bay of Fournelles, Ischia, a street in Caiffe at the foot of Mount Carmel featuring two dromedars, Aboukir castle, caverns near Syracuse and the Temple of Minerva, the Palermo Capuchin catacombs, and a view of Scylla on the coast of Calabria, as well as an attack on the French camp near Aboukir, an attack of Turkish gun boats on the castle of Aboukir, and a group of three Arabs aboard the Swiftsure. The aquatint map shows the Mediterranean Sea with the courses of the British and French fleets up to their encounter in the Bay of Aboukir in August 1798. Designed by Willyams, the illustrations were engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler. - Binding somewhat rubbed near extremities. Right margins of several plates brownstained or a little worn (not touching image); map brownstained on left and right margins and near the gutter (hardly touching image); the plate with the entrance into the Ear of Dionysius with traces of 2 folds near lower right corner (not touching image). An appealing compilation of decorative images documenting the route of the British fleet leading up to the Battle of the Nile. For the original publication cf. Abbey 196. Blackmer 1813. Atabey (2nd ed.) 1339. Graesse VII, 456.

Inlibris · Áustria€ 1.800,00

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