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Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, 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.

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.
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.
Classification
Department