[MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).]

Lot 126
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Lot 126 | [MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).]
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[MAYER, Luigi (1755-1803).]

Views of Egypt, Palestine, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire [General title, comprising:] – 1. Views in Egypt, from the original drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1805; 2. Views in Palestine. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804; 3. Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia minor hitherto unexplored. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1803.

Fine set of the first edition of all three volumes of Mayer's views of the Middle East. 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. Abbey Travel, 369; Atabey 790; Blackmer 1100.



3 volumes, folio (493 x 338mm). 1: engraved portrait of Mayer mounted as frontispiece, general and volume letterpress titles, 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates; 2: text in English and French, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates; 3: 2 letterpress titles in English and French, text in English and French, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates (plates on paper watermarked 1801, small marginal stain to pl.15 in vol. 2, a few plates with light marginal finger-soiling and occasional spotting or browning, but overall a crisp, clean copy preserving many deckle edges). Uniformly bound in red cartonage boards, upper covers lettered in gilt (sometime rebacked and re-cornered to style in calf, extremities lightly rubbed, short crack at foot to upper joint of vol. I).

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