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Sa'oudi, Muhammad 'Ali Effendi. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF FINE EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC, MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED MATERIAL RELATING TO MAKKAH AND MADINAH [1904-1908] A unique collection of rare photographs, photographic equipment and related books and manuscripts by or belonging to the photographer Muhammad 'Ali Effendi Sa'oudi, consisting of: photograph album, comprising 114 fine photographs on 51 sheets, tissue guards, modern green cloth, upper cover with Sa'oudi's arabic signature mounted; (a full list of the photographs in this album and of the slides below is available from the Book Department on request) 10 boxes of glass stereoscope slides, containing a total of 88 slides, (64 at 60 x 60mm. and 24 at 45 x 45mm.), featuring images of Makkah and Madinah, housed in original light brown leather carrying case; together with a modern album containing a complete set of prints of the slides, bound in green cloth 80 stereoscopic photographs, mounted on card (80 x 80mm.), principally featuring images of Makkah and Madinah, preserved in a modern green cloth box sa'oudi's stereoscopic camera, an ICA AKT-GBS Dresden Stereo Palmos with a Tessar Carl Zeiss Jena lens 1:4.5 F=85mm, (see Le Guide Michel Auer, Edition Camera Obscura, 1990, No.2184); together with: an ICA AKT-GBS Dresden wooden stereoscope for viewing slides (damaged); housed together in a wooden box manuscript translation, by, or commissioned by, Sa'oudi of J.L. Burckhardt's Travels in Arabia (1829), 116pp. manuscript in arabic, not in Sa'oudi's hand, tables of contents and red ink annotations in the hand of sa'oudi. The translation covers only Burckhardt's chapters on Makkah and Madinah and was never published. we have been unable to trace any arabic translation of burckhardt until that of hitaf abdallah, published in beirut in 2005 sa'oudi, muhammad 'ali effendi, 'A Synopsis of the Pilgrimage', manuscript in arabic [1904], 12pp. with official watermark on each page: crescent and three stars with "Gouvernement Egyptien", written in Sa'oudi's own hand after his first pilgrimage for the noted teacher and Islamic reformer Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) sa'oudi, muhammad 'ali effendi, 'The Construction of the Ka'ba', manuscript in arabic [post 1905], 8pp. with official watermark on each page: crescent and three stars with "Gouvernement Egyptien", written in Sa'oudi's own hand sa'oudi, muhammed 'ali effendi, Voyages au Hedjaz et en Arabie, (Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1919), extracted from the Bulletin de la Societe Sultanieh de Geographie, New Series T.VIII, text in Arabic and French, some additions in Arabic by the author in red ink, included is a modern English translation, housed in a green cloth box rif'at pasha, ibrahim. Mir'at Al Haramayn Aw Al Rihlat Al Hijaziyya. (Cairo, 1925), first edition, sa'oudi's own copy, 2 volumes, 8vo, (514pp. and 369pp.), 557 photographic and other illustrations, a detailed description of the author's four journeys to Makkah and Madinah between 1901 and 1908. In 1904 and 1908 he was accompanied by Sa'oudi who certainly took the photographs labelled figures 39, 54,141, 145, 146, [162], [174], 201, 240 and 289 in the book, and who may have taken twenty others in which Rif'at appears but Sa'oudi does not. There is a studio portrait of Sa'oudi on p.321 of Volume 2, and he appears in eight other photographs in the book shehata, riyad. Al Tasweer wal Hafr. (Cairo, 1924), 8vo, 226pp., original printed wrappers, a manual on photography; on p.31 is described and illustrated a Dresden camera similar to Sa'oudi's. Shehata was court photographer during the reign of King Farouk