Ogilby, John.

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

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. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, 1670
paper

First edition, folio (410 x 262mm.), printed title in red and black, engraved pictorial title, folding general map and 51 plates and maps, 43 double-page and/or folding, 8 single-page (5 of which with more than one image), illustrations in text, 9 unsigned letterpress tables, contemporary calf, [Hilmy II 78], lacking half-title (as often), a few plates slightly browned or spotted, binding somewhat worn, old rebacking (retaining original red morocco label) and repairs

Catalogue Note

This compendious illustrated work on Africa, the most comprehensive in English of the seventeenth century, includes descriptions of Egypt (pp.39-145), Barbary, Numidia or Billedulgerid, and Lybia (i.e. northern Africa, pp.146-314), Negro-land (central and western Africa, pp.315-488), Nether Ethiopia (southern and eastern Africa, including Socotra and islands of the Red Sea, pp.489-631), Upper-Ethiopia or the Empire of Abyssine (pp.632-658) and adjacent islands (including Malta and Gozo, pp.659-767). It was the first volume published by Ogilby in his planned series of "atlases" to cover the whole world (see also lots 80, 83 and 86 and illustration on page 49).