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... Collected and translated from most authentick authors...by John Ogilby.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 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... Collected and translated from most authentick authors...by John Ogilby.

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Title: 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... Collected and translated from most authentick authors...by John Ogilby.
Creator: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Contributor: Boynton, Griffith--Autograph and ms notes
Hodgdon, Ernest F.--Stamp
Published / Created: 1670
Publication Place: London,
Publisher: Printed by T. Johnson for the author,
Description: "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 prelim. leaf.
Imperfect: 2 maps (Tunis and Lovando St. Paulo) wanting.
In this Beinecke copy, the 1st prelimin. leaf bears text "English atlas, tome the first" and the "Catalog" is on the 8th prelim. leaf.
Title in red and black; intials; head-pieces.
Extent: 8 p. l., 767, [1] p. front., illus., plates (part double) maps (part fold.) double plans, tables. 42cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 1986 Folio 29

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: Engravings
Frontispieces
Intaglio prints
Title pages
Subject (Geographic): Africa--Description and travel
Islands of the Atlantic
Islands of the Indian Ocean
Subject (Name): Boynton, Griffith--Autograph and ms notes
Hodgdon, Ernest F.--Stamp

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Citation: Wing (2nd ed.) O163

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 599173
Object ID (OID): 11534702