Accession number
PML 199086
Creator
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJymyqJCBxF8yh7qmF384q
Published
London : Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his House in White Fryers, MDCLXX [1670]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2024.
Notes
Title in red and black; initials; head-pieces.
Half-title: "English atlas, tome the first."
Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶.
Engravings: text lavishly illustrated with numerous plates (many double) of maps, plans, portraits of local people, dress, and flora and fauna of the region; large white pictorial engraved initials; illustrated engraved head-pieces.
"A catalogue of the names of the general authors, both ancient and modern, besides later voyagers, consulted to the carrying on of this first volume": 7th preliminary leaf.
Half-title: "English atlas, tome the first."
Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶.
Engravings: text lavishly illustrated with numerous plates (many double) of maps, plans, portraits of local people, dress, and flora and fauna of the region; large white pictorial engraved initials; illustrated engraved head-pieces.
"A catalogue of the names of the general authors, both ancient and modern, besides later voyagers, consulted to the carrying on of this first volume": 7th preliminary leaf.
Description
34 unnumbered, 767 pages, 1 unnumbered pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 42 cm (folio)
Binding
Full brown calf, blind-tooled Cambridge-style binding.
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