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

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $6,250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MAYER, LUIGI.

printer

T. Bensley for R. Bowyer

Place

London

Publication

1804

Description

FIRST EDITION. 24 full-page color aquatint plates. Text in English and French.

references

Abbey Travel, 369.

summary

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.

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

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