(Mayer,L.).

A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of Views in Egypt, Asia Minor. London, T. Bensley for R. Bowyer 1811. Fol. Mit 24 altkolor. Aquatinta-Taf. 2 Bl. (Titel u. Inhalt). Einfacher Lwd. d. Zt. mit Dsch. (Tls. fleckig, berieb. u. beschabt, Rckn. mit kl. Einrissen, unfrisch). Atabey 790. Chatzipanagioti-S. 631. Hage Chahine 56. Cf. Blackmer 1100. Abbey 369. - The German-Italian artist Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) was one of the foremost late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. He was a close friend of Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador to Turkey between 1776 and 1792. - "The plates in this selection are not re-engraved, but plates available from the stock originally printed for Bowyer, with new title page" (Atabey). - Große, schön kolorierte Ansichten von Alexandria, Kairo, den Pyramiden, Jerusalem, Tripolis, Karthago u.a. - Vom Einband abgesehen, schönes, breitrandiges kaum stockfl. Ex. - With 24 coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary simple cloth (partly stained, rubbed, spine with small tears). Slight foxing.