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, 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; with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their vvonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ... [founded mainly on the work of O. Dapper] ; 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.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX. [1670]
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Notes:Title page in red and black.

Half-title reads: English atlas, tome the first.

Physical description: [34], 767, [1], p., [56] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 2o.

Citations/References: Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), O163

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