NORDEN, FREDERIK LUDVIG [FREDERIC LOUIS]. 
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Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie / 2 volumes in 1. L'Imprimerie de la Maison Royale des Orphelins, Copenhagen 1755. Folio (30 x 45 cm.). Printed on thick paper. Engraved portrait of author (by Johann Martin Preisler) + engraved frontispiece (Marcus Tuscher). (40)+288 pages + and 159 engraved maps and views (drawn by the author and engraved/etched by Tuscher, partly in cooperation with the author). Leaves A1 and A2 have been insertd from another copy, and are a bit smudged with old library stamps to them. Contemporary full brown calf with richly gilt spine, gilt decorations on boards and inside gilt borders. All three edges gilt. Contemporary engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Recent bookplate on front endpaper. Spine-ends somewhat worn. Corners slightly bumped. Outer hinges a bit weak. Old inventory number in ink on verso of front endpaper. Slight edgewear.
Even though it has two inserted leaves from another copy, it is still a attractive copy of this pioneering work. This is a cornerstone of Egyptology, published in only 200 copies by the then newly founded Royal Danish Scientific Society. The Danish naval officer F.L. Norden (1708-42) traveled on the Nile 1737-38, venturing further into Africa than any westerner had been for since antiquity - as far as today's Sudan, where they were attacked by the locals. He had been sent on the expedition by the Danish king Christian VI to keep an eye on a Count d'Esneval, who had persuaded the Danish king to try to find a route down the Nile to Ethopia, the land of milk and honey (and gold!). D'Esneval was a charlatan, but Norden made something of the journey anyway (much encouraged by his friend, the German freemason Baron von Stosch), as he was a skilled draughtsman, and his enormous material was the first documentation of many Egyptian monuments ever, also depicting everyday life in Egypt, as well as making a map of the Nile.
6600,- EUR
inkl. 19% USt./incl. 19% VAT
Sachgebiete: Ägyptologie, Reisen/Reiseliteratur
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