Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa; Being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abysinnes, with All the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, first edition, title in red and black, 44 engraved double-page maps, views, scenes and plans, 4 single-page plates, 10 single-page plates ?supplied from another smaller copy, engraved initials, head-pieces and numerous illustrations to text, small hole to half-title touching 1 letter of text, 2 plates with short repaired tears to lower margin, occasional light browning, otherwise a clean and excellent copy, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, [Wing O163], folio, by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, 1670. ⁂ First edition of this important work on Africa, the most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, largely based on the work of Olfert Dapper.
Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa; Being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abysinnes, with All the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, first edition, title in red and black, 44 engraved double-page maps, views, scenes and plans, 4 single-page plates, 10 single-page plates ?supplied from another smaller copy, engraved initials, head-pieces and numerous illustrations to text, small hole to half-title touching 1 letter of text, 2 plates with short repaired tears to lower margin, occasional light browning, otherwise a clean and excellent copy, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, [Wing O163], folio, by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, 1670. ⁂ First edition of this important work on Africa, the most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, largely based on the work of Olfert Dapper.
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