Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia : and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages. Their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure; with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their vvonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; Master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.
1670
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Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia : and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages. Their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure; with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their vvonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; Master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX. [1670]
Description
[34], 767, [1], p., [56] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; (fol.)
Associated name
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, author.
Note
Title page in red and black.
Half-title reads: English atlas, tome the first.
Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶.
Half-title reads: English atlas, tome the first.
Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶.
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Signatures from DFo.
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Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution (catalog entry 63)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), O163
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R22824
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R22824
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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141- 503f
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking 3 plates? Provenance: purchased by Folger from Edwards, 21 August 1953