Lot Essay
The Abbey copy includes a later portrait of Mayer, who died in March 1803.
Details
Mayer (Luigi): Views in Egypt, first edition, folio, Thomas Bensley for Robert Sawyer, 1801 [watermarked 1794-1801] [Abbey Travel 369; Blackmer 1097], 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates (occasional light soiling), contemporary green morocco (rubbed and soiled), g.e.