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Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916 image 4
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Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916 image 6
Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916 image 7
Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916 image 8
Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916 image 9
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Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca
Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916

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London, New Bond Street

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Bernhard Moritz, Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, comprising 106 plates after photographs of the Middle East, including the holy sites at Mecca
Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916

106 plates after photographs mounted on to 50 card mounts with printed captions and dates in German, mostly two per mount, the images of varying sizes, numbered 1-100 (1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a and 95a, one map, numbered 63a), 10 bound leaves (16 pages) of accompanying text in German, loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed decorative portfolio boards, gilt-lettered Nord-Arabien und Sinai on upper cover, covers with printed decoration in the style of a Mamluk binding, oblong folio, title mount inscribed in ink R. Tschudi[?]
portfolio 310 x 410 mm.

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A rare photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The original photographs were taken for the most part by Moritz between 1905 and 1915, but some by Turkish friends in areas where he was prohibited from going.

The subjects consist of:
Jerusalem.
Landscape views near Jericho and in Jordan.
Deraa and other locations in Syria.
Bedouin camps in east Jordan.
Petra and the landscape nearby.
Desert views in the Hejaz.
Personnel building the Hejaz Railway between Damascus and Mecca and Medina.
One printed map of Medina, accompanying views of the town, including the Mosque of the Prophet and the progress of the Mahmal in 1914.
Views of Mecca, including the Ka'ba, and a pilgrim camp near Mount Arafat.
Street scenes in Jeddah.
Aqaba.
Desert views in Sinai, oases, wadis and Christian monastic buildings.

Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 was in charge of the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo, publishing a seminal work on Arabic paleography in 1905. He made several research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz.

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