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LOT 177:

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Views in Palestine from the Original Drawings of ...

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Views in Palestine from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer. With an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country, and its Remarkable Places.

FIRST EDITION. 24 full-page color aquatint plates. Text in English and French.
A fine copy. pp. 47, (1). Small ink stains along a few outer margins. Original boards with printed label on upper cover, later neatly rebacked. Elephant folio. Abbey Travel, 369.

London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804.

A student of Piranesi, Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was one of the most important late 18th century European artists focusing on the Ottoman Empire.
     
An attractive, bright copy.

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