OGILBY, John. Africa: being an accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgeird... London: Thomas Johnson for the Author, 1670. Title printed in red and black, 42 engraved plates, including 30 folding, 15 engraved folding maps, 45 engraved illustrations in text and 9 inserted letterpress diagrams. (Lacks half-title, light browning and staining to some plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some wear to edges). Provenance: James Brooke (ownership inscription on title page). Essentially a translation, with additions, of the Dutch geographer Olfert Dapper's work. Wing O-163.
OGILBY, John. Africa: being an accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgeird... London: Thomas Johnson for the Author, 1670. Title printed in red and black, 42 engraved plates, including 30 folding, 15 engraved folding maps, 45 engraved illustrations in text and 9 inserted letterpress diagrams. (Lacks half-title, light browning and staining to some plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some wear to edges). Provenance: James Brooke (ownership inscription on title page). Essentially a translation, with additions, of the Dutch geographer Olfert Dapper's work. Wing O-163.

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OGILBY, John. Africa: being an accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgeird... London: Thomas Johnson for the Author, 1670. Title printed in red and black, 42 engraved plates, including 30 folding, 15 engraved folding maps, 45 engraved illustrations in text and 9 inserted letterpress diagrams. (Lacks half-title, light browning and staining to some plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some wear to edges). Provenance: James Brooke (ownership inscription on title page). Essentially a translation, with additions, of the Dutch geographer Olfert Dapper's work. Wing O-163.

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