Norden, Frederic Louis
£6,250
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie. Copenhagen: l'Imprimerie de la maison royale des orphelins, 1755. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (455 x 310mm.), engraved portrait, allegorical frontispiece, 157 engraved plates (numbered 1-159), a few folding, engraved head-pieces and initials, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, head and tail of spines slightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: A good copy of the first edition, one of the great 18th-century Egypt books. "This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those of Denon" (Blackmer). Handsomely printed on large, heavy paper and elaborately engraved.
Provenance: "J.L.H.", initials at foot of spines.