![[MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).] A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of Views in Turkey in Europe, and in Asia; Syria, Sicily, the Eolian Islands... [Bound with:] Views of Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1811.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0282_001(mayer_luigi_a_selection_of_the_most_interesting_of_sir_robert_ainslies075740).jpg?w=1)
![[MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).] A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of Views in Turkey in Europe, and in Asia; Syria, Sicily, the Eolian Islands... [Bound with:] Views of Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1811.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0282_000(mayer_luigi_a_selection_of_the_most_interesting_of_sir_robert_ainslies102613).jpg?w=1)
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[MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).] A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of Views in Turkey in Europe, and in Asia; Syria, Sicily, the Eolian Islands... [Bound with:] Views of Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1811.
Extra-illustrated edition of Mayer's fine views of the Middle East. This issue of contains an extra 8 plates, mainly of Palestine, not found in other editions. Perhaps the most dramatic image of all is of an interior scene, showing the passage from the second to the third gallery inside the Great Pyramid. Cf Abbey 369; Atabey 790; Blackmer 1100.
2 works bound in one volume, folio (485 x 330mm). 1: 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, of which one double-page finished; 2: 32 hand-coloured aquatint plates (8 more than advertised in plate list). Title in second work watermarked 1810; plates in both works watermarked 1809. Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed).
Extra-illustrated edition of Mayer's fine views of the Middle East. This issue of contains an extra 8 plates, mainly of Palestine, not found in other editions. Perhaps the most dramatic image of all is of an interior scene, showing the passage from the second to the third gallery inside the Great Pyramid. Cf Abbey 369; Atabey 790; Blackmer 1100.
2 works bound in one volume, folio (485 x 330mm). 1: 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, of which one double-page finished; 2: 32 hand-coloured aquatint plates (8 more than advertised in plate list). Title in second work watermarked 1810; plates in both works watermarked 1809. Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed).
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