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Mecca and Medina--Rif'at Pasha, General Ibrahim MIR'AT AL-HARAMAYN AW AL-RIHLAT AL HIJAZIYYA [THE MIRROR OF THE TWO HOLY SHRINES]. CAIRO: NATIONAL LIBRARY PRESS, 1925 First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (242 x 164mm.), Arabic text (but with English captions to nearly all photographs and illustrations), 557 photographic and other illustrations and maps (see footnote), modern brown morocco gilt, some light spotting and stains; together with: i.) 2 original photograph portraits of Solyman Pasha Ibn Rafada, chief of the tribe of Beli, taken by Rif'at (printed and mounted by Fasani & Grivas, Cairo), comprising: one half-length portrait photograph (227 x 163mm.) published in the present book (vol.2, illustration no.310; cf. pp.230-233), the other full-length portrait (222 x 163mm.), unpublished ii.) original photograph of Muhammad 'Ali Effendi Sa'udi (158 x 103mm.) iii.) original photograph of an unidentified Egyptian official (228 x 167mm.) wearing a suit and fez (printed and mounted by Fasani & Grivas, Cairo) iv.) diapositive glass stereoview portrait of Muhammad 'Ali Effendi Sa'udi (44 x 105mm.) v.) negative glass stereoview of an Egyptian pyramid by Sa'udi (44 x 105mm.) vi.) 4 counterfoil passports printed in Ottoman Turkish completed in Arabic manuscript in black ink (1904 and 1906), allowing some Hajis and travellers attached to the Mahmal to have access to the Hijaz vii.) colour printed map of Mecca by the Survey of Egypt (c.1948), paper backed on linen (618 x 957mm.), slightly worn