NORDEN, Frederick Lewis, Captain of the Danish Navy, Travels in Egypt and Nubia. 2 vols, folio, 1757. 1st edition in English. With two frontispieces and 164 plates on 162 sheets (plates are numbered 1-159, but there are 5 additional unnumbered plates following plates 16, 22, 27, 65 & 107. Plates 140 & 141 are on one sheet, as are plates 142 & 143). Lacking covers. Edge fraying to last plate in each volume. 'Norden is the first writer who published a picturesque description of Egypt, and every subsequent traveller has borned evidence of the accuracy and fidelity of his researches and descriptions' (Lowndes p 1697) (2)