Middle East.- Moritz (Bernhard) Bilder aus Palaestina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, title (with small ink stamp), introductory leaf and 16pp. text in German, 106 plates after photographs mounted on 50 card mounts with captions, numbered 1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a (2 photos) and 95a, one map (numbered 63a), images of varying sizes, loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards portfolio, lettered "Nord-Arabien und Sinai" in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio (290 x 390mm.), Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1916.

⁂ Rare and important photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The images depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Jiddah, Petra, and Mt. Sinai. Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 headed the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo. It was from there that he made numerous research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz, taking the present photographs between 1905 and 1915.