Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, 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, 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.
Alternate Title(s):
Half-title: English atlas, tome the first
Published / Created:
London : Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, MDC LXX [1670]
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1986 Folio 29: Imperfect: 2 maps (Tunis and Lovando St. Paulo) wanting.
Subject Terms:
Africa -- Description and travel. | Africa -- Geography. | Slavery -- Africa. | Islands of the Indian Ocean -- Description and travel. | Islands of the Atlantic -- Description and travel. | Boynton, Griffith -- Autograph and ms notes (BEIN 1986 Folio 29) | Hodgdon, Ernest F. -- Stamp (BEIN 1986 Folio 29) | Radcliffe, W. -- Autograph.
