Rakia Faber - Louis Heldring: Amateur Photographer in the Middle East 1898

Rakia Faber - Louis Heldring: Amateur Photographer in the Middle East 1898 - Amsterdam - Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund / Rijksmuseum - 2008 - 1st edition - [56] pp - Hardcover - 21,5 x 26,5 cm. - Lay-out: Ger Hudepol productions.

Condition: Excellent.

Monograph about the unique - with original self-made photos enriched - travel books of the Rotterdam pastor / photographer Johannes Lodewijk 'Louis' Heldring (1852-1923). Illustrated with photos and reproductions in black and white, sepia and COLOUR (depicting i.a. the Pyramid of Giza and a caravan with camels). Text in English.

¶ Hardback edition. Series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography Volume 3. Also includes a chapter on other Dutch books on the Middle East and the Holy Land (Palestine, Israel, Egypt) in the last two decades of the 19th century: "The Middle East in Dutch publications and photographic collections, 1880-1900".