MAYER, Luigi.
Views in Palestine,
Views in Palestine,
from the original drawings... with an historical and descriptive account of the country, and its remarkable places; [with] Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored; with some curious selections from the Islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Corinth, Carthage, and Tripoli.
Stock Code 122625
London, T. Bensley, 1804, 1803.
Mayer made the illustrations when employed as the personal view painter for Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador at Constantinople from 1776-92. The scenes here are quite memorable, not only for the impressive views of ancient monuments, but for their glimpses in to the lives and culture of the people.
First editions; 2 works in 1, folio (47 x 34 cm); in total 48 coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, armorial bookplate to front free endpaper, occasional marginal finger mark; twentieth-century quarter red morocco, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine in six compartments, a very good copy; [ii], 47, [1]; [iv], 40 pp.
Atabey 787, 788; Blackmer 1098, 1099; Abbey Travel 369; Gay 2145 and Tobler p.228 for Palestine; Colas 2020, 2021.
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