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(ISRAEL, LAND OF) Views in Palestine from the Original Drawings of LUIGI MAYER With an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country, and its Remarkable Places. FIRST EDITION. 24 full-page color aquatint plates. Text in English and French. A FINE COPY. pp. 47, (1). Small ink stains along a few outer margins. Original boards with printed label on upper cover, later neatly rebacked. Elephant folio.Abbey Travel, 369. London, T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1804. AN ATTRACTIVE BRIGHT COPY. A student of Piranesi, Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was one of the most important late 18th century European artists focusing on the Ottoman Empire.