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LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)

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LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)

Views in the Ottoman Empire. [Bound with:] Views in Palestine. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1803-1804. [Watermarks: J Whatman 1801]. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (472 x 328mm). Text in English and French; 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates to each part. (Occasional light spotting to plate margins and tissue paper, few leaves creased.) Late 19th-century russia (extremities rubbed and corners bumped, some scuffing).

FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF MAYER’S VIEWS. The finely-produced hand-coloured aquatint plates include charming views of Jerusalem, Mount Zion, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea. The first part, Views of Egypt, Palestine and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, was separately published in 1801. Abbey Travel, 369; Colas 2020; Lipperheide 1461.

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