Lot 157
Mayer (Luigi) Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, first edition, text in English and French, 1803
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Mayer (Luigi) Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, first edition, text in English and French, 24 hand-coloured aquatints, one with minor creasing to corner, faint off-setting, cracked hinges, later cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 787; Blackmer 1098], folio, 1803.
⁂ 'The plates in Mayer's Caramania were not reprinted in any other of his works, including Watts's edition. These plates, however, were used by Josiah Spode for a set of blue and white transfer ware pottery known under the name, 'Caramania'. (Blackmer)
Description
Mayer (Luigi) Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, first edition, text in English and French, 24 hand-coloured aquatints, one with minor creasing to corner, faint off-setting, cracked hinges, later cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 787; Blackmer 1098], folio, 1803.
⁂ 'The plates in Mayer's Caramania were not reprinted in any other of his works, including Watts's edition. These plates, however, were used by Josiah Spode for a set of blue and white transfer ware pottery known under the name, 'Caramania'. (Blackmer)