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Views in Palestine / from the original drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an historical and descriptive account of the country, and its remarkable places = Vues en Palestine / d'après les dessins originaux de Luigi Mayer ...

Accession number
PML 146676.2
Creator
Mayer, Luigi.
Published
London : Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with 24 hand colored aquatints after drawings by Mayer.
Work originally issued in 6 parts, with the volume originally published separately and subsequently issued as v. 2 of a 3 volume set, along with Mayer's "Views in Egypt" and "Views in the Ottoman empire, chiefly in Caramania", the whole issued in 1804 with collective t.p. "Views in Egypt, Palestine and others parts of the Ottoman Empire". Cf. Abbey.
Plates have imprint: R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, 1803 [or] 1804.
The aquatints were probably etched by W. Watts. Cf. Abbey.
Library's copy has 21 of the 24 plates from a later issue or edition, with the Bowyer imprint and a date of 1812 and parallel caption text in English and French; 2 of the remaining plates lack imprint and another bears the original date of 1803.
Text in English and French.
Description
47 p., [24] leaves of plates : hand col. ill (aquatint) ; 47 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department