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 MERIAN, Matthaeus (1593-1650, engraver and publisher) - [Martin ZEILLER]
Topographia Westphaliae
Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian, [no date but c.1700]. Engraved title-page, 50 engraved plates, town plans or maps by Matthaeus Merian, and others (34 folding). (Title with 3/4 inch piece torn from outer blank margin).
[Bound with:]
Topographia Archiepiscopatum Moguntinensis, Treuirensis, et Coloniensis. Frankfurt am Main: Matthaeus Merian, 1646 [but c.1700]. Engraved title-page and 44 plates (13 folding, 11 double-page) by Matthaeus Merian.
2 works in one volume, folio (12 x 8 inches). Contemporary brown sheep, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, light brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, repeat gilt tooling in the remaining compartments, red-stained edges
Two fine works by Merian, in a single volume.
Swiss born engraver and publisher Matthaeus Merian is best known for his 21 volume series with German geographer Martin Zeiler, collectively known as Topographia Germaniae. This volume collects two titles from this early travel series and features many of the fine engraved views and maps for which the work is so highly regarded.
The second work (which is actually bound first in this example) includes maps, plans and views of Trier (on the Moselle river and the oldest large city in Germany), Mainz (the capital of the Rhineland-Palatinate) and Cologne, all on the Rhine, and the surrounding area. The second work is on the region of Westphalia and is centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, and Osnabrück.
C. Schuchhard Die Zeiller-Merianschen Topographien 50.B and 38.D.
#18662 $12,000.00  
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 [MIALHE, Pierre Toussaint Frederic (1810-1881)]
Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba
Berlin: Bernardo May y Co, [circa 1855]. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches). Chromolithographic title heightened with gold, 27 chromolithographic plates by Storch & Kramer after Mialhe, each within an elaborate border printed in varying shades of blue and incorporating the plate number, the series title and the individual image title in Spanish, all printed recto only on thin card leaves, 2 folding uncoloured maps printed on thin paper. Publisher's plum coloured fine grained cloth, covers blocked with an elaborate border in blind, the upper cover with a large central design incorporating the title blocked in gilt, pale cream toned endpapers, expertly rebacked to style.
An excellent copy of the finest pictorial record of daily life in Cuba in the 19th century.
French-born Pierre Toussaint Frédéric Mialhe lived in Cuba from 1838 to 1854, initially working for the printing firm Real Sociedad Patriótica to compile a pictorial record of the island. He also taught drawing at the Liceo Literario y Artístico in Havana. He had trained as a painter under François-Édouard Picot in Paris, but his greatest artistic legacy is the series of three lithographically-illustrated works that he produced whilst in Cuba: Isla de Cuba, Isla de Cuba Pintoresca and Viaje Pintoresco al Rededor de la Isla de Cuba.
There are three editions of this last work. The first, Viaje Pintoresco ... was published by Louis Marquire for Mialhe in 1847-8 in Havana, and is now almost unobtainable: only two copies (one incomplete) are listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty five years. The success of this work prompted Bernardo May to issue the second, Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba which contained 26 tinted plates and was printed in either Berlin or Hamburg, with captions in Spanish, English and German, and a series of vignettes printed around the borders of the two maps: this was the first of the pirated editions. May was subsequently taken to court by Mialhe and the publisher, but they failed to prove their case and the present edition appeared shortly afterwards, with the full complement of 27 plates. This present edition is obviously the more desirable of the two as it is completely printed in colours, and the plates give much more detail than in the earlier pirated edition.
The album includes 11 topographical views of Havana, 4 of other ports, 10 views of daily life, street vendors, dancers, cock-fighting, a bull-fight, fishermen, etc, and ending with two views which recall the two main industries of the time: the interior of a casa de calderas on a sugar-cane plantation, and an exterior view of a tobacco plantation.
Cf. Emilio Cueto, Mialhe's Colonial Cuba (Miami, 1994), pp. 1-7, 73-77; Palau 5421, and cf.167989; cf. Sabin 17748 (for the other pirated edition with only 26 plates); cf. G. Sánchez. "Federico Mialhe: diseño biográfico y señalamientos para la estimación de su obra" in Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional (La Habana), año 66, nº 2, 1975.
#23424$7,500.00
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 MOFFATT, James (1775-1815)
[An album of twenty four views in India]
Calcutta: 1804-1810 [watermarked 1798-1807]. Folio (22 x 17 inches). 24 uncoloured aquatints by Moffat. Expertly bound to style using half 18th-century diced russia over marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, modern morocco-backed cloth box, spine gilt.
A fine and very rare album of Moffat's highly important views of India.
In its entirety, this album represents the greatest series of aquatint views ever printed in India. We have occasionally been able to offer individual prints by James Moffat, but this is the first album that we have ever encountered: collections such as this are of the greatest rarity. The twenty four plates make up three different series, and were originally assembled in about 1820. All the plates are on laid paper, the majority with watermarks including dates. The three series are probably as follows: a series published in about 1804, a second published in about 1810 and the third group of four plates are from drawings of Gaur by Henry Creighton.
Little is known of Moffat. Mildred Archer writes that he 'was a Scotsman living in Calcutta from 1789 to 1815. He appears to have learnt his profession of painting and engraving in India. In 1798 and from 1805 to 1810 he produced views of towns on the Ganges and Hooghly, and in 1808 engravings from Henry Creighton's drawings of Gaur.'
The plates are bound and titled as follows:
1.`View of a Mosque at Chunar,' I.Moffat. sculp.1810 (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1807')
2.'View of the large pagoda at Nuddea,' drawn and engraved by I. Moffat (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1804')
3.'View of Agra, on the River Jumna,' I.Moffat, sculpt. (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1807')
4.'Mausoleum erecting at Ghazepore, to the memory of the Marquis Cornwallis.' Engraved by I. Moffat, Calcutta (watermarked 'S. Wise & Patch 1805')
5.'View on the banks of the Ganges with representation of the Churruck Poojah, a Hindoo holiday,' I. Moffat. Del. et sculp. (watermarked 'Edmeades & Pine')
6.'Gate of Sultan Shah Hussein's tomb at Gour,' H.C. delin I. Moffat. sculp (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1805')
7.'1st; view of the city of Benares,' drawn and Engraved by J. Moffat. Calcutta 1804, (14 ½ x 20 ¼ inches)
8.'2d, view of the city of Benares,' Drawn and Engraved by J. Moffat 1804, (14 ½ x 20 ¼ inches)
9.'West view of the city of Moorshedabad,' J. Moffat del: et Sculp, (14 ¾ x 20 ¼ inches)
10.'View of the hospital at Berhampore,' Drawn and Engraved by Jas. Moffat at Calcutta 1805 (Watermarked 'J. Whatman 1801')
11.'South view of Chinsurah,' J. Moffat del. Et Sculp. Calcutta 1803 (watermarked 'J.Larking')
12.'View of Seringapatam,' J. Moffat Sculp. (watermarked 'Budgen 1803)
13.'View in the fort of Monghyr,' Drawn and Engraved by James Moffat, Calcutta 1805 (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1801')
14.'South view of the new government house, Calcutta,' Drawn & Engraved in Aquatinta, by James Moffat, Calcutta 1803' (watermarked 'I Taylor 1798')
15.Kuddum Russoolat Gour, where they shew the print of their prophet's foot, in a piece of white marble,' H.C. delinr. I. Moffat sculp.
16.'Cutwally gate at Gour,' H.C. delinr. I. Moffat. Sculp. (watermark dated 1805)
17.'The small golden mosque at Gour,' H.C. delin I. Moffat. Sculp (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1806')
18.'West view of Calcutta,' Drawn and Engraved by J. Moffat. Calcutta 1805 (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1801')
19.'South east view of the new government house Calcutta,' Delineated and Engraved in Aquatinta By James Moffat, at Calcutta 1st February 1803 (watermarked 'I Taylor 1798')
20.'View of the cantonments at Berhampore,' J. Moffat del. And sculp. 1806 (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1804')
21.'View of the ancient city gate, Rajemahal,' J. Moffat Del. Et Sculp. 1806 ) (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1805')
22.'Mosque at Peruspore, Gour,' H.C. delin J. Moffat Sculp Calcutta (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1805')
23.'View of the palace at Benares,' Drawn and Engraved by J. Moffat. Calcutta 1805 (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1801')
24.'Cossimundia Ghaut, Benares,' J. Moffat del. et sculp. (watermarked 'S.Wise & Patch 1805')
M. Archer British Drawings in the India Office Library, I969, II, p.621
#21937$48,000.00
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 [MONTANUS, Arnoldus (1625-1683)]
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies vers les Empereurs du Japon
Amsterdam: Jan Van Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in one volume (as issued), folio (13 7/8 x 9 inches). Title in red and black with integral engraved vignette. Engraved additional title, 26 engraved maps and plates (1 folding map, 4 folding plates, 21 double-page plates), 70 engraved illustrations, occasional engraved initials and head-pieces. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked and cornered, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, dated at the foot of the spine.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lach).
Designed to complement his similar work on China, this work was compiled by Montanus from records of Jesuit missions to Japan in 1649 and 1661, and published by Jan Van Meurs for the Dutch East India Company. Van Meurs had received the necessary permission to publish both a Dutch and a French edition in 1664, but it was not until 1669 that the Dutch edition appeared, to be followed shortly after by translations in German and in English using Van Meurs plates. In the present edition, the frontispiece and four of the original large plates were recut, and many of the text illustrations are reversed or mirrored. This edition is the first to include the plate of Fort Zeelandia in Taiwan. Montanus' work amounts to a massive history of all aspects of Japan as it was then understood by the West and contains "more firsthand information about Japan than any other post-1650 publication" (Lach).
The work primarily concentrates on providing accounts of Japanese politics, culture, religion, and military affairs. In addition, Montanus gives descriptions of the various western attempts to make contact with Japan: these naturally concentrate on the VOC (or Dutch East-India Company) embassies. The account of the Dutch 'Blokovius-Frisium embassy' comes from previously unpublished material, and other VOC embassies described include those of Zacharias Wagenaer in 1657 and Henry Indyk in 1661. Topographical information is wide ranging (for the time) and includes Montanus' descriptions of the towns of Nagasaki, Hirado, Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Shizuoka, and Edo, as well as the mysterious 'boiling waters of Singok'. The sociology of Japan is also described in some detail, with accounts of Japanese customs (bath-houses, wrestling, gardens) endeavors (whaling, wine-making), and mores (including crime and punishment with accounts of murder, the burning of widows, blood-baths, and various tortures).
The magnificent maps, plans, and illustrations cover Japanese costume, cities, flora and fauna, religious ceremonies, military techniques and include a plan of Nagasaki, large folding views of Miako and Edo, a scene of the destruction wrought by an earthquake at Edo, action portraits of samurai, an illustration of a religious ceremony at the temple at Beelden, formal meetings between western ambassadors and the Japanese Imperial Court, and a plate showing the Emperor's throne.
Cordier Japonica 385;Cox I:325; Lach Asia in the Making of Europe III, pp.1873-79; Landwehr VOC 525.
#23668$10,000.00
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 MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY, Médéric-Louis-Élie (1750-1819)
Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie françoise de Saint-Domingue ... accompagnées de cartes et plans de la même colonie, gravés par les soins de M.Phelipeau, ingénieur-géographe. Le tout principalement destiné à l'ouvrage intitulé: Loix et constitutions des Colonies Françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent, avec leur description, histoire, &c
Paris: Chez M. Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. Ponce, M. Phelipeau, 1791. Folio (18 3/16 x 12 3/4 inches). 30 engraved maps, plans and plates (8 double-page, 1 hand-coloured in outline). Expertly bound to style in 18th century French blue paper-covered boards, the flat spine with red/brown morocco lettering-piece.
A beautiful and rare work on Santo Domingo.
According to the title this separately-issued work was published as a companion to Moreau de Saint-Méry's six-volume work Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent...(Paris: 1784-1790). The plates were engraved under the supervision of Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831) and according to the dates on the maps and plans and the title, the majority of the work was issued between 1785 and 1791, but the turbulent times meant that the publication of the general "Carte de l'Isle de St.Domingue" was delayed until 1796. Furthermore, the "Plan general de la Partie Francoise de Saint-Domingue", listed as plate 17 on the list of plates, was apparently never issued. The work includes 15 sheets of views. The first two large double-page panoramic views of "Cap François" are after originals by Fernand de la Brunière. The majority of the remaining views and scenes of everyday-life on the island are attributed to either Perignon or Ozanne, and include images of "Port au Prince"; "Cap et Môle St Nicolas"; "Cayes"; "port de Nippes"; "port de l'Acul du Petit-Goave"; "rade de Léogane"; "Bombardopolis", "baies de Fort-Saint-Louis" and "de Jacmel". The rare general map was designed by I. Sionis, whilst Phelipeau published the remaining anonymous maps and charts. The two final double-page plates are of a sugar mill and sugar-milling equipment invented by a M. Bélin.
A native of Martinique, Moreau de Saint-Méry studied law in France before setting up in practise in Cap Français. In 1780, he was appointed 'conseiller au Conseil-Supérieur de Saint-Domingue'. This new rôle required that he carry out historical research, and allowed him to study primary documents relating to the laws and the history of the colony. He had access to the archives of the Antilles and during his research discovered the tomb of Christopher Columbus (which he restored at his own expense). In 1783 he returned to Paris and, from 1784 to 1790, published his magisterial Loix et constitutions... In the meantime, he became involved in politics and, as President of the Electors of Paris, was handed the keys to the Bastille after it was stormed. In 1794 the political climate turned against him and he fled France, settling in Philadelphia. Here he established himself as a well-respected bookseller and publisher in both émigré and native intellectual circles, he also published his other important work on the region Description topographique et politique de la partie espagnole de l'île de Saint-Domingue (Philadelphia: 1796).
Cohen/de Ricci 815; Leclerc 1404; Sabin 50578.
#20879$15,000.00
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 MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1488-1552)
Furmalung und kunstlich beschreibung der horologien, nemlich wie man der sonnen vren mit mancherley weys und form, und auff allerley gattung entwerffen soll an die mauren
Basel: Heinrich Peter, 1544. Small folio (11 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches). [7],clxvi,[1]pp. Two plates. Illustrated with more than sixty in-text woodcut diagrams. Printer's device on verso of final leaf. (The two plates chipped along the fore-edge with minor losses affecting some of the numbering). Expertly bound to style in period vellum. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Provenance: unidentified inscription on title dated 1566; Ex libris Blasij Dasner (inscription on title); Monasterij Rhenoviensis, sub Abbate Eberhardo (inscription dated 1631).
Early edition of a noted mid-16th century work on sundials and horology.
Second German-language edition, following the first edition printed in Basel in 1531 (in Latin) and the first German-language edition of 1537. This is Munster's revision of his significant work on sundials and horology. The text is illustrated with many woodcuts of sundials, measuring devices, and quadrants, some of them attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. This edition appeared the same year as Munster's famed Cosmographia.
This copy is especially interesting for the three early ownership inscriptions on the titlepage, as well as two pages of manuscript diagrams and four pages of manuscript notes that follow the text. One signature on the titlepage, written below the printer's name, is dated 1566 and appears to read "Egodolf." Immediately below it is the undated ownership signature "Ex libris Blasij Dasner." At the top of the titlepage is a manuscript note showing that this volume was in the possession of the monastery "Rhenoriensis" in 1631, under the Abbot Eberhard. Rheinau Abbey (also known as Kloster Rheinau), a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in about 778 and suppressed in 1862.
The two full-page manuscript diagrams and four pages of manuscript text at the end deal with the subject of Muenster's work, sundials and problems of solar declination and hour ascension, and their use on different dates and in different latitudes. The diagrams and manuscript notes consider problems that have been taken from Munster's text. A part of the manuscript is in the form of questions and answers. The first page of manuscript notes contains a diagram of a hand holding a stick, and was a common horological tool of the time.
OCLC locates only six copies of this 1544 edition, with only two of them (Harvard and Folger Shakespeare Library) in the United States.
Brunet 1944-1945; Burmeister 52.
#26419$12,000.00
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 NARBROUGH, Sir John (1640-1688), and others. - [Sir Tancred ROBINSON (editor)]
An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narbrough's Voyage to the South-Sea... II. Captain J. Tasman's Discoveries on the Coast of the South Terra Incognita. III. Captain J. Wood's Attempt to Discover a North-East Passage to China. IV. F. Marten's Observations made in Greenland, and other Northern Countries...to which are added, a large introduction and supplement, containing short abstracts of other voyages into those parts, and brief descriptions of them
London: printed for D. Brown, J. Round, W. Innys and T. Ward, 1711. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). 3 large folding engraved maps, 19 engraved plates (7 folding). (Two images with flags of ships with early hand-colouring). Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, rebacked with the spine in six compartments with raised bands flanked by gilt rules, black morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment. Provenance: Earl Ferrers, Robert Lord Viscount Tamworth (armorial bookplate on verso of title).
An excellent copy of the second edition, which "is preferred because it has the chart of the western and southern oceans, which was not included in the first edition, and additional text relating to Greenland and to whales and whaling" (Hill).
This work was originally published in 1694, and was probably edited by Sir Tancred Robinson. Hill describes this work as of particular importance for its account of the Straits of Magellan, much relied upon by the next generation of navigators, and says further: "The book is of the greatest importance to an Australian collection, as it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia." Also contained herein are two important northern voyages, including Marten's account of whaling in the Greenland waters. Three of the folding plates depict whales and whaling, while the other plates depict indigenous birds, animals, and plants.
Cox I, pp.8-9; Hill (2004) 1476; European Americana 711/183; Sabin 72186.
#26753$9,000.00
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 NICHOLS, Philip
Sir Francis Drake Revived: Calling upon this dull or effeminate age, to follow his noble steps for gold and silver. by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrences (never yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeeres 72. and 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and fiftie two others onely in his companie surprised. Faithfully taken out of the report of M. Christofer Ceely, Ellis. Hixom, and others, who were in the same Voyage with him. By Philip Nichols, Preacher. Reviewed by Sir Francis Drake himselfe before his death, and much holpen and enlarged by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr. Francis Drake Baronet (his Nephew) now liuing
London: printed for Nicholas Bourne, 1628. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches). [8],80pp. plus contemporary manuscript list of pamphlets on one folded small format leaf bound in following titlepage. (Wormtrack to leaves from A2 to D1 with occasional loss of text, title lightly soiled with small tear in lower margin, dedication leaf with restoration to upper outer corner and repaired tear affecting text area, D4 with a repaired tear affecting text area). Modern brown half morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun of Bath, spine gilt in three unequal compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment.
One of the rarest works on Drake, describing his Caribbean raid of 1572
The second edition, after the first of 1626, of this account of Francis Drake's highly successful raid against the Spanish in Panama in 1572-73, one of his early Caribbean raids of plunder and harassment. Sabin states of this edition: "It differs from that of 1626 in having had the advantage of the incorporation of the errata of the latter date under the personal superintendence of the nephew of the great voyager. The last four leaves are larger than the rest of the book." The expedition of fifty-two Englishmen attempted to seize Nombre de Dios, but were repulsed when Drake was wounded in the shoulder. After many reversals and hardships, the British managed to waylay an entire pack train of Peruvian silver, bringing home a fortune. Drake's bold move was approved by Queen Elizabeth, who shared in the plunder, but the politics of his raid on Spain during a period of ostensible peace made it necessary for him to disappear to Ireland for several years after the event. Besides his success in plunder, on this expedition Drake became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean.
The book was originally written in a manuscript account of the expedition given to Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Day 1593. In his letter of presentation which serves as the introduction to the book, Drake suggests that, while it is pleasant to think of past victories, he would rather be undertaking new employment of the same sort. The opportunity soon presented itself, with more raids in the West Indies; and in 1596, just over three years after giving the manuscript to the Queen, the intrepid Drake died at sea off Puerto Rico during a raid on Spanish shipping. Thirty years after Drake's death, courtier Philip Nichols reworked and published the manuscript. The timing of publication of the first edition is significant. King James I, Elizabeth's successor, had been eager to placate the Spanish, and no publication so openly lauding raids on Spanish property would have been tolerated during his reign. James I died in 1625 and Sir Francis Drake Revived... was published the following year.
European Americana 628/87; JCB (3)II:213; Sabin20838; STC 18545
#19432$18,500.00
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 NOEL, Captain J. B. L.
Through Tibet to Everest
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1927. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Plates. Publisher's ads in rear. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lacks dust jacket.
Second impression, dated December 1927 on verso of title.
#24517$75.00
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 NORDEN, Frederik Ludvig (1708-1742)
Travels in Egypt and Nubia ... Translated from the original published by command of his Majesty the King of Denmark and enlarged with observations from ancient and modern authors, that have written on the antiquities of Egypt, by Dr. Peter Templeman
London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. 2 volumes, folio (18 x 11 inches). [12], xxxiv, 124; [4], viii, 156pp. Half-titles. Engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces. Engraved allegorical frontispiece in vol. 1, engraved portrait of the author in vol. 2, 157 engraved plates, maps and plans (numbered I-CLIX, with plates CXL/CXLI and CXLII/CXLIII on two sheets, 5 folding). Period speckled calf, covers with a gilt roll tool border, spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with repeat overall elaborate tooling in gilt. Provenance: Abraham Roumieu, architect, 1734-1780 (signature and block-printed and ink-ruled bookplate); Richard Hill of Thornton House, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire, England (armorial bookplate).
First edition in English of an important early illustrated account of exploration in Egypt.
Norden, a Captain in the Danish Navy, made a journey in 1737-1738 through Egypt as far south as Sudan at the request of King Christian VI of Denmark. "After touring Alexandria and Cairo he proceeded up the Nile as far as Derr in Nubia, one night unknowingly passing Richard Pococke travelling in the opposite direction. Norden then retraced his steps to Alexandria and re-embarked for Europe in May 1738. During his year in Egypt, Norden produced the first coherent maps of the country ... He died in Paris in September 1742, but his friends organized his papers on Egypt and published them in two volumes in French at Copenhagen in 1752-55" (Howgego). The present first English edition followed in 1757.
He "was the first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of any Nubian temples. 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" (Blackmer).
This copy with provenance to architect Abraham Roumieu, a pupil of architect Isaac Ware.
Blackmer 1211; Hilmy 2:74; Weber 2:520; Howgego N38.
#26814$15,000.00
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