- 164
Norden, Frederick Lewis.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- Travels in Egypt and Nubia. London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757
- paper
First English edition, folio (470 x 282mm.), wide margins, engraved frontispiece, portrait and 162 plates, engraved vignettes in text, contemporary calf, a few library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, [Blackmer 1211; Hilmy II, 74], lacking half-titles, slight offsetting of vignettes, plates rather browned and spotted, bindings worn, one spine broken, 2 covers detached
Catalogue Note
This was the first detailed survey of Egypt by a European and the most important prior to the Description de l'Egypte (see lot 166). Norden landed in Egypt in 1737, surveyed the course of the Nile below the first Cataract and made close observations of the pyramids.