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Lot Description

[Color-Plate Books] Mayer, Luigi. Views in Egypt, From the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, Taken During His Embassy to Constantinople...

London: Printed by Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1801. First edition. Folio. (iv), 102, (2) pp. Illustrated with 48 hand-colored aquatint plates, after Mayer. Early three-quarter navy blue morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, rebacked, tips renewed, boards rubbed and toned; all edges trimmed; endpapers renewed; foxing to title-page; scattered light spotting and soiling to text and plates; 6 1/2 in. repaired closed tear in lower fore-edge of first plate. Abbey, Travel 369; Blackmer 1097; Atabey 785

Handsome first edition of Luigi Mayer's views of Egypt, featuring fine illustrations of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, scenes and views of Alexandria, Cairo, as well as depictions of Arabs, Mamelukes, and Bedouins. An important record of pre-Napoleonic Egypt, and the first of Mayer's work on the region. Mayer's illustrations were created in 1792 at the request of his employer, Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador to the Ottoman court, who asked him to accompany a group of Englishmen travelling between Constantinople and Egypt.

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