| Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje Pèlerins devant la Kaaba, La Mecque [Saudi Arabia] 1885 (ca) Albumen print 19 x 24.3 cm Gros & Delettrez 18 Dec 2014, Lot: 428 LL/57242 Signed at the bottom by the photographer in the negative: “Futugrafiyyat al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka’ (Photography by the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physician of Mecca) and titled at the top in Arabic in the negative (Prayer Around the Kaaba).
William Facey, Saudi Arabia by the first photographers, Stacey International, London, 1996, p. 28.
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