John Ogilby: Africa; being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid [...]. London: Tho[mas] Johnson for the Author 1670. Folio. Engraved frontispiece, with old signature. Incomplete. Lacking half title. With engraved plates/maps. Browning and dampstaining throughout. Frayed edges. Bound in fine full morocco (20th century binding).
A good copy of probably the most important encyclopaedic account of Africa produced in the 17th century. The illustrations include a large folding map of the whole of Africa, 15 double-page maps of Morocco, Tangiers, West Africa, Guniea, South Africa, Congo, Abyssinia, Madagascar, Malta, St. Helena and Canary Islands, 27 double page copperplate views of Alexanderia, Morocco, Salee, La Roche, Argille, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Tacaray, Benin, Lovango, Salvador, Loando, Cape of Good Hope, Cairo, Valetta, Pyramids, people, plants, sea battles, forts, etc., etc. and 3 single-page plates of pyramids and mummies.
Arctica and travels, 4 June 2013
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