John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671

John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus]

America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World.... Collected from the most Authentick Authors... by John Ogilby. London: Printed by the Author, 1671

Folio (407 x 271 mm.), engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding engraved general map of the Americas, and 49 double-page or folding engraved views, maps and other subjects (including maps of the Americas, Maryland, New England and Jamaica), 6 engraved portraits, and 66 illustrations in the text (including the view of New Amsterdam at p.171), caption of "Nova Virginiae Tabula" map after p.192 amended in an early hand, contemporary calf, rebacked, marbled edges, slight worming at inner margin extending from prelims to P3 (not affecting text or plates), extremities rubbed

Ogilby's text is in part a translation of Montanus's De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, but with considerable additions from other and more reliable sources in respect of New England and New France, Maryland and Virginia, using for the most part English materials. Ogilby also has a short section on "New Netherland, now call'd New York", which gives the account of the transfer of sovereignty from the Netherlands to England in 1664. The work was considered as the second volume in Ogilby's projected "English Atlas" series (see prior lot for the first volume in this series).

PROVENANCE:

ownership inscription of "Hen: Ben: Hall" to title, i.e. Henry Benedict Hall of Highmeadow House, Gloucestershire; by descent to his daughter Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall (d.1749), who, in 1713, married Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage (c.1695-1754)

LITERATURE:

Wing O165; Sabin 50089; JCB III, 227