Lot 450 ‘MON VOYAGE A LA MECQUE’ (MY TRIP TO MECCA), BY GERVAIS-COURTELLEMONT, WITH 34 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY PLACES MADE DURING THE AUTHORS TRIP, PUBLISHED BY ‘LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE ET CIE’, FRANCE 2ND EDITION 1896

The author Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863–1931) was a French photographer famous for taking color autochromes during World War I. His work represents the most important French-language book published to date among a resurgence of international interest in the pilgrimage to Mecca. This interest is manifest both in the public sphere with special museum exhibitions in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in the work of scholars. A book from the perspective of modern global history and as a history of the Middle East.

The book has 236 pages and is dated 1896 AD, 19 by 13 cm.