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Views in the Ottomon empire
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- 1803 (Creation)
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40 p., [24] leaves of plates: col. ill.; 47 cm.
The work is in English and French, with an added title page in French. It contains 40 pages of text and 24 pages with engraved and hand-colored illustrations.
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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 original drawings in the possession of Sir R. Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople
London: R. Bowyer, 1803
Luigi Mayer was a watercolorist and draftsman of Italian origin. Mayer’s sketches have been cited as the most accurate representations of the Middle East prior to the nineteenth century.