MAYER (LUIGI), VIEWS IN EGYPT: FROM THE, ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN THE POSSESSION OF SIR ROBERT AINSLIE

MAYER (LUIGI), VIEWS IN EGYPT: FROM THEORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN THE POSSESSION OF SIR ROBERT AINSLIE, TAKEN DURING HISEMBASSY TO CONSTANTINOPLEFirst edition, 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates (watermarked 1794 and 1801)Plates generally in good condition, gilt, marbled endpapers, detached, rubbed,folio, Thomas Bensley and R.Bowyer, 1801; frontispiece variously inscribed ThomasGainsfield[] 1805; To my dear Daughter Emma Maria; to her Son J. Livins[]1891[]Folio (47 x 32.5 cm)Provenance:The Collection of Thomas Gainsfield[] 1805, possibly by descent to ‘hisdaughter’ EmmaMaria, then by descent to her son J. Livins[] 1891Sale, Christie’s South Kensington, Travel & Topography Books, 7June 1991, lot 74 (for £1,600)