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 ; 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.
By: Ogilby, John
Publisher: London : printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX. [1670].Description: [12], 767, [19] p., [98] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 40 cm.Other title: English atlas, tome the firstSubject(s): Islands of the Indian Ocean -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Islands of the Atlantic -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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