voyage d'égypte et de nubie

Descrizione libro: 1755, 1755. 2 vols. in 1. Copenhagen 1755. (40) + 288 + (2) pp. With copperengraved frontispiece, the authors portrait and 159 fullpage copperengravings showing views, costumes, maps, monuments etc. from Egypt. Fol. A very clean copy with a wide margin bound in beautiful contemporary full leather, so called English binding of marbled calf decorated with blind-tooling and gilding. The binding is problably from the bookbinder Georg Julius Liebe's workshop. * A very beautiful DE-LUXE COPY of the first edition printed, on HEAVY PAPER. Bound in a Danish masterbinding in English style, probably by George J. Liebe who settled 1774 as a bookbinder in Copenhagen and from 1746 he was appointed to the Danish Court. He introduced the rococostyle in the art of bookbinding in Denmark.The archaeological interested and artistic talented naval officer Fred. Ludv. Norden undertook in 1737 - 38 on Royal command and expense an archaeological expedition to Egypt. He died, however, before the account of his travel was published, and the work was passed to the Danish Society of the Sciences. It became probably the most magnificent work in the history of Danish book production. The artist Marcus Tuscher was called in to engrave the many large illustrations after Norden's drawings of which a few are carried out by O. H. de Lode. Some of the beautiful initials are engraved by Jonas Haas, who has also engraved the large vignette above the preface drawn by J. M. Preisler together with vignettes drawn by Peter Cramer, who also engraved part of his own drawings. "Det hele Værk er af en sjælden fornem og virkelig pompøs Karakter." (Laur. Nielsen). The greatest 18th century Danish travel book. Famous for both its contents, and its printing and illustrations. Codice libro della libreria 159944

Descrizione libro: Maison Royale De Orphilius, Copenhagen, 1755. Contemoorary Full Calf. Condizione libro: Very Good. First French Edition. Folio. [30], 228 pp; 2 steel engraved frontispieces, numerous steel engravings in text/ [8], 159 steel engraved plates depicting views, maps, plans, original full calf, title gilt on raised decorated spine, marble endpaper, edges slightly rubbed, bookplate of Sir Thomas Winnington. First edition as published by The Royal Danish Society in only 200 copies. Copy in Very Good Condition. In 1737-38, the naval officer Frederic Louis Norden was sent by the Danish government for an expedition to Egypt. Scientific expeditions were the object of extreme interest in enlightened European circle, and at the same time it provided governments international prestige, and possible economic connections. The Danish monarchy supported several expeditions financially, including Carsten Niebuhr's voyage to Arabia in 1761-67, and Norden's journey to Egypt and Nubia. This monumental work is considered as the only detailed survey of Egypt and Nubia by a European and most important prior to the "Description d'Egypt", which appeared after Napolean's invasion of Egypt. The drawings of Norden were published for the first time in London (1741). This work appeared in Copenhagen thirteen years after his death in 1742.[ Blackmer 1210 for the English edition; Hilmy II, 74]. Codice libro della libreria 001671

Descrizione libro: Copenhague, Imprimerie de la maison Royale des orphelins, 1755. Couverture rigide. Condizione libro: Bon. Edition originale. Ouvrage enrichi de Cartes & de Figures dessinées sur les lieux, par l'Auteur même. Copenhague, Imprimerie de la maison Royale des orphelins, 1755; ; 2 volumes in-folio, demi veau fauve, dos à n. ornés (Rel. mod. à l'imitation). Blackmer 1211 (pour l'édition anglaise): "Norden was the first european to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of any Nubian temples". Edition originale rare. Norden avait été chargé par le gouvernement danois de dessiner les monuments d'Egypte. Ce magnifique ouvrage, imprimé avec le plus grand soin, fut publié à titre posthume d'après ses papiers et ses dessins. Ce fut l'étude la plus complète sur les antiquités egyptiennes jusqu'à la "description de l'Egypte". Bel exemplaire non rogné malgré de minuscules trous de vers aux premières et dernières planches. Codice libro della libreria 3935

Descrizione libro: Paris, Pierre Didot L'Ainé, 1795-98. Large 4to. Bound in 3 cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs, tome-and titlelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Small nick to leather along hinge to vol. III, and a nick to back of vol. II. Light discolouring to foot of spines. Light wear to spine ends and corners a little bumped. Engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait. LV,176;256;392 pp. and 170 fine engraved plates, maps, views, plans (numb. 1-159 + 9 unnumb, no. 96 triple, plate 87 misnumb. as 88 and 8 of the numbered plates printed on 4 sheets, complete). A large copy with broad margins and internally fine and clean, including the 3 halftitles. Scarce second edition, although an English translation was published 1757 after the original which was printed in French in Copenhagen 1755 in 2 foliovolumes by The Royal Danish Society.The plates are the same as in the original and the English translation, but they are reengraved in smaller size and some added relating to the regions geography. The famous work communicated the results of the expedition that took place in 1737-38. It is the most extensive description of Egypt's monuments, ruins, temples etc. since the time of Herodot, as there has been only few travellers or written descriptions since classical times. - Brunet IV:101. Codice libro della libreria 30121

Descrizione libro: Paris, Lepetit jeune, 1800. Small octavo. Atlas containing 23 plates, numbered I-XXIII, comprising of a finely engraved folding map and 22 finely engraved plates, 16 of which are double-page, the others mostly with multiple images to each. Serial-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full tree calf, gilt tooled sides, gilt spine, crimson morocco lettering piece in gilt, gilt tooled edges, marbled endpapers, bit rubbed in places, spine ends chipped, corner-tips bit worn, light foxing and yellowing mostly to blank margins and verso of plates, small old mark to verso of one plate. In a very good condition. A charming copy. - - First edition. Rare. Bibliothèque Portative des Voyages, Tome XIII. A second edition appeared in 1817. Norden's "Voyage d'Égypte et de Nubie" was first published posthumously in 1755, by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Norden, who died in 1742, managed to see part of his work in print when he published in 1741 a pilot edition under the title "Drawings of Some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes in Egypt". Codice libro della libreria 4892