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, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure... [etc]
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Type of record: Book
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, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure... [etc]
Other titles: Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten; Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche eylanden; An accurate description of Africa
Classmark: BC Trv q/DAP
Additional creator(s): Ogilby, John (1600-1676) (Other); Dapper, Olfert (1639-1689) (Other)
Related people: Ogilby, John; Dapper, Olfert
Publisher: printed by Tho. Johnson for the author
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1670
Language: English
Size and medium: [16], 767, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281324
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001341989705181
Description
Title concludes: With their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds and serpents. Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. master of His Majesties Revels in the kingdom of Ireland.
Mainly a translation of O.Dapper's 'Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten'. Second edition.
First published in 1669, with title: 'An accurate description of Africa'.
Plates mostly double-page; two folding. Six single-page plates not included in list under 'Directions for placing' at end.
Not included in the register or pagination are eight leaves, printed on one side only. These are placed at the beginning of the sections on Egypt, Barbary, Numidia, Lybia, Negro-land, Nether-Ethiopia, Upper-Ethiopia, and the African islands, respectively, and carry tables relating to those sections.
Indexed in: Wing O163.
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Pi1 (blank) laid down (though intact)
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