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

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 330

MAYER, LUIGI.

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. pp. 47, (1). Minimal wear. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-spine scuffed, corners bumped. Elephant folio. Abbey Travel, 369.

London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer 1804

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,250

A student of Piranesi, Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was an Italian-German artist and one of the most important late 18th century European artists of the Ottoman Empire.