Lot 77: NORDEN, Friderik Ludvig (1708-1742). Travels in Egypt and Nubia , translated by Peter Templeman . London: for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757. 2 volumes, 2° (445 x 280mm). Engraved frontispiece in volume I and portrait in volume II and 159 plates

NORDEN, Friderik Ludvig (1708-1742). Travels in Egypt and Nubia, translated by Peter Templeman. London: for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757. 2 volumes, 2° (445 x 280mm). Engraved frontispiece in volume I and portrait in volume II and 159 plates on 163 sheets (some offsetting) but for the most part a clean copy in early 19th-century calf gilt (rather rubbed, upper cover of vol.II detached).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of 'this important work, the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt' (Blackmer 1211), and complete with its magnificent map of the Nile on 29 sheets. (2)

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