Dec 07, 2023 - Sale 2655

Sale 2655 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(EGYPT.) Luigi Mayer. Views in Egypt, from the Original in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, Taken during his Embassy to Constantinople. 45 (of 48) fine hand-colored aquatint and engraved plates, [4], 102, [2] pages on heavy wove paper variously watermarked 1796-1802. Folio, 22x15 inches, publisher's plain cloth with a manuscript, printed, and gilt title collage pasted to upper cover, moderately worn; extra-wide uncut deckle-edge margins; one area of minor worm track. London: Thomas Bensley, for R. Bowyer, 1801