No place, no date (presumed London, 1757). Plate volume only. Folio. Illustrated with 159 engraved and numbered plates on 161 sheets (including five folding plates). Modern quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels; all edges untrimmed; repair in verso gutter of first plate; small open tear in gutter of portrait plate; closed tear in fore-edge of plate IV; repaired tear in top edge of plate XXIII, tear in bottom gutter of same; closed tear in top edges and gutter of plate LVI; open tear in upper gutter of plate LXXII, small closed tear in bottom edge of same; small closed tear in bottom edge of plate LXXX; two repaired closed tears in top edge plate CXXXVIII; scattered soiling and faint dampstaining to most plates.

A handsome copy of the atlas volume of Norden's Travels in Egypt, the earliest systematic description of Egypt and its antiquities by a European. Frederic Louis Norden (1708-42), a Danish naval captain, cartographer, and explorer, traveled through Egypt at the behest of King Kristian VI of Denmark from 1737-38. Accompanied by artist Marcus Tuscher, he made extensive surveys of the country's geography, agriculture, and architecture, and produced the first coherent maps of the country. He was also the first European to penetrate as far as el-Derr in Nubia.