Folio (400 x 264 mm). Engraved title; title-page printed in red and black; large folding map of Africa (a few separations at folds repaired on verso); 51 engraved maps, views, and plates (43 double-page or folding); engraved illustrations throughout the text. (Lacking half-title as often, a few separations to folds of plates or maps occasionally repaired, H1 repaired touching letters, a few leaves with tears crossing text, a few repaired, one plate with tears crossing image repaired and margins renewed, one plate fully backed.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine). 

 

FIRST EDITION of the most comprehensive work in English on Africa published in the 17th-century, intended to be the first volume of Ogilby’s planned English Atlas series. The double-page maps depict Egypt, Morocco, southern and western Africa, the Congo, Madagascar, and the Cape Verde and Canary Islands. The engraved views include depictions of Alexandria and Cairo, Tangier, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, St. Helena, and the pyramids. “Ogilby may be considered as the English De Bry, his works are similar in their objects, compilation, and mode of illustrations” (Cox II, 69). Lowndes III, p.1719; Wing O-163.