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FREDERICK LUDWIG NORDEN
Travels in Egypt and Nubia ... Translated from the Original ... and enlarged ... by ... Peter Templeman, London: for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757. 2° (4371 x 286mm.). Half title, engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author and 161 plates (of 162, lacks plate 124), numerous engraved head-pieces, initials and decorations. (Most plates very erratically positioned and most slightly discoloured). Later 18th-century russia gilt (lower cover detached).
First English edition. Blackmer 1211 (collation agreeing with this copy): 'This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those by Denon'; Brunet IV, 101.
Travels in Egypt and Nubia ... Translated from the Original ... and enlarged ... by ... Peter Templeman, London: for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757. 2° (4371 x 286mm.). Half title, engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author and 161 plates (of 162, lacks plate 124), numerous engraved head-pieces, initials and decorations. (Most plates very erratically positioned and most slightly discoloured). Later 18th-century russia gilt (lower cover detached).
First English edition. Blackmer 1211 (collation agreeing with this copy): 'This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those by Denon'; Brunet IV, 101.
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