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MAYER, Luigi.
Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored; with some curious selections from the Islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Corinth, Carthage, and Tripoli: from the originall
Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. A MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK.
- Published
- London: R. Bowyer, 1803.
- References
- Abbey Travel II 369; Colas 2021; Lipperheide No. 1425; Prideaux pp. 234 & 344. Bobins I 149.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: R. Bowyer, 1803.
- Ref
- 530
FIRST EDITION. Folio (48 x 35 cm. approx) 24 handsome hand-coloured aquatint plates. Titles and text in French and English; modern green half morocco gilt marbled boards, gilt to spine. A clean and attractive copy. Coloured plates in order: 1. Principal Entrance of the Harbour of Cacamo. 2. Colossal Sarcophagis near Castle Rosso. 3. Ancient Granary at Cacamo. 4. An ancient Bath at Cacamo in Caramania. 5. An ancient Theatre at Cacamo. 6. Necropolis or Cemetery of Cacamo. 7. Sarcophagi & Sepulchres at the Head of the Harbour of Cacamo. 8. Sepulchral Grots at the Head of the Harbour of Cacamo. 9. A colossal Sarcophagus at Cacamo in Caramania. 10. Part of the Harbour of Macri. 11. Ancient Sepulchre near Macri. 12. A Caramanian Waiwode. 13. Women of Caramania. 14. A Caramanian Family changing its Abode. 15. Caramanian Woodcutters. 16. A Grotto cut in the Rock near Lindo, in Rhodes. 17. Harbour of the ancient Gnidus. 18. The Castle of Boudron in the Gulf of Stancio. 19. A Colossal Vase near Limisso in Cyprus. 20. Antique Fragments at Limisso. 21. The City of Corinth. 22. Ruins of an ancient Temple near Corinth. 23. Ruins of the Grand Aqueduct of ancient Carthage. 24. Triumphal Arch of Tripoli in Barbary.
