148 - Luigi MAYER. Views in Egypt, Palestine, and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire. London: Thomas Bensley, R. Bowyer, 1801–1804. 3 parts in one folio volume, brown Russian leather, plain spine (contemporary binding, heavily damaged).

Luigi MAYER. Views in Egypt, Palestine, and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire. London: Thomas Bensley, R. Bowyer, 1801–1804. 3 parts in one folio volume, brown Russian leather, plain spine (contemporary binding, heavily damaged). Abbey, 369 / Blackmer, 1097–1099 /// General title page, portrait / I. (2f.)–102–(1f.), 48 pl. / II. (1f.)–47, 24 pl. / III. (2f.)-40, 24 plates. First edition of Luigi Mayer’s three works, *Views in Egypt, From the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie…*, *Views in Palestine…*, and *Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania…*, published by Bowyer between 1801 and 1804 and compiled under a general title in 1804, with a frontispiece portrait of Mayer engraved by R. Brook after a drawing by R. Bowyer. The set contains 96 hand-colored aquatint plates, based on works by Luigi Mayer. The binding is severely damaged, with the joints scorched and split; there is water damage at the top affecting the upper margin of the volume; three leaves are browned in the first volume (M2, R, and R2).