Ogilby's Africa
Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands ... 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.
London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the Author, 1670.
Price:
$9,500.00
First edition. With large engraved folding map of Africa, 45 maps, views, and plates (most double-page) as per directions to binder, plus engraved frontispiece, a few additional plates, numerous engraved vignettes in text, head-pieces and initials [collated complete]. [16], 767, [1] pp. Title page in red and black. Without the half title. Folio. Contemporary calf, rebacked, spine gilt. Minor scattered foxing, double-page plate of Bansa browned, but a clean copy overall with wide margins. ESTC R22824; Wing O-163; Mendelssohn (1979) 3, p.571; Tooley, Africa , p.87.; Cox I, 361; Lowndes III, p.1719; Schuchard 20.
Item #376984
First edition of Ogilby's magnificant atlas of Africa, a compendium of various sources though largely based on Olfert Dapper's Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten van Egypten (Amsterdam: 1668), with notes and additional material provided by Ogilby, profusely illustrated with maps, views, and plates. The work is of particular interest for the accounts of the natives in southern Africa. It was the first in a series which Ogilby conceived of covering the entire world – which included Atlas Japannensis (1670), America (1671), Atlas Chinensis (1671), and Asia (1673) – though was issued separately.
Item #376984
First edition of Ogilby's magnificant atlas of Africa, a compendium of various sources though largely based on Olfert Dapper's Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten van Egypten (Amsterdam: 1668), with notes and additional material provided by Ogilby, profusely illustrated with maps, views, and plates. The work is of particular interest for the accounts of the natives in southern Africa. It was the first in a series which Ogilby conceived of covering the entire world – which included Atlas Japannensis (1670), America (1671), Atlas Chinensis (1671), and Asia (1673) – though was issued separately.
