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: $3,500

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

author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

T. Bensley for R. Bowyer

Place

London

Publication

1804

Description

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

references

Abbey Travel, 369.

summary

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

pp. 47, (1). Small ink stains along a few outer margins. Original boards with printed label on upper cover, later neatly rebacked. Elephant folio.

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