17 plates with photographs, size 19 x 25 cm & 8 plates with each 4 photographs 13,5 x 10 cm. Together 25 plates with 49 photographs & 3 photolithographs
Buch
“Collection of 49 photographs of Indonesian pilgrims in Mecca. Plates mounted on stiff paper, with printed captions in German. Shows pictures on Mecca, important inhabitants of Mecca and Indonesian pilgrims from various parts of Indonesia (28 plates). Published from the Atlas Bilder zu Mekka (The Hague, 1888), by C. Snouck Hurgronje. The photographs taken by Snouck, alias 'Abdel Ghaffar, or by a Meccan physician, been indentified as Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar. These photographs belongings to be one of the first from Mecca ever published.” (Versandantiquariaat Rene Krul, Amsterdam, c/o www.zvab.com 09.2001).