Lot 164: NORDEN, FREDERIK LUDWIG.

NORDEN, FREDERIK LUDWIG. VOYAGE D'EGYPTE ET DE NUBIE. COPENHAGEN: DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE LA MAISON ROYALE DES ORPHELINS, 1755 First edition, 2 volumes, folio (445 x 286mm.), 131 engraved plates (only, of 159), 13 with modern colouring, one with new caption added, and 29 engraved vignettes and initials, 3 with modern colouring, modern half calf, [Hilmy, II p.74; Weber, II 519], lacking 28 plates, lacking pp.33-36 in vol.1, long tear in a2 (vol.1) repaired, portrait cut down and mounted, library stamp on titles; sold not subject to return