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Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, 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 wonderful 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..
Half-title: English atlas, tome the first
London, : Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers,, M.DC.LXX. [1670]
[34], 767, [1], p., [56] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Title page in red and black.
Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶.
Engraved head-pieces and initials; printed marginalia.
ESTC, R22824
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), O163
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Contemporary mottled calf with 20th century reback and repairs; boards have double-gold-fillet border frames and gold-tooled central frame with gold-tooled ornaments at outer corners and blind-tooled ornaments at inner corners; board edges tooled in blind; text block edges marbled.
Imperfect: wants leaves chi1-2chi1.
Islands of the Indian Ocean Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Islands of the Atlantic Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Africa Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Johnson, Thomas, fl. 1642 - 1677 printer.
England London.
B48146