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LEO, Johannes. Historiale description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde, contenant les royaumes, regions, viles, cités, chateaux et forteresses, iles, fleuves, animaux, tant aquatiques que terrestres, coutumes, loix, religion et façon de faire des habitas... Lyons: Jean Temporal, 1556.
2 volumes in one, 2o (331 x 219 mm). Woodcut border on title-pages, 2 double-page woodcut maps of Africa, full-page woodcut map of the river Nile, 36 large woodcut illustrations in text. 20th-century half vellum; quarter morocco slipcase.
RARE FIRST FRENCH EDITION of the famous description of Africa by Johannes Leo Africanus, and the first collection of voyages printed in France. Johannes Leo took his Christian name from his sponsor Pope Leo X when he converted to christianity after his capture in 1520. He was born Al Hassan Ibn Mahommed Al Wezaz Al Fasi probably in Grenada in about 1494, received a great part of his education at Fez, and while still very young began to travel widely in the Barbary States. In 1512 we trace him at Morocco, Tunis, Bugia and Constantine; in 1513 we find him returning from Tunis to Morocco; and before the close of the latter year he seems to have started on his famous Sudan and Sahara journeys (1513-1515)... In 1516-1517 he travelled to Constantinople, probably visiting Egypt on the way; it is more uncertain when he visited the three Arabias, Armenia and "Tartary". His three Egyptian journeys, immediately after the Turkish conquest, all probably fell between 1517 and 1520; on one of these he ascended the Nile from Cairo to Aswan." The present work was probably first written in Arabic but the primary text now is in Italian, first published in 1526. Adams L-482; BM/STC French p. 216; Mendelssohn III, p. 86.
2 volumes in one, 2
RARE FIRST FRENCH EDITION of the famous description of Africa by Johannes Leo Africanus, and the first collection of voyages printed in France. Johannes Leo took his Christian name from his sponsor Pope Leo X when he converted to christianity after his capture in 1520. He was born Al Hassan Ibn Mahommed Al Wezaz Al Fasi probably in Grenada in about 1494, received a great part of his education at Fez, and while still very young began to travel widely in the Barbary States. In 1512 we trace him at Morocco, Tunis, Bugia and Constantine; in 1513 we find him returning from Tunis to Morocco; and before the close of the latter year he seems to have started on his famous Sudan and Sahara journeys (1513-1515)... In 1516-1517 he travelled to Constantinople, probably visiting Egypt on the way; it is more uncertain when he visited the three Arabias, Armenia and "Tartary". His three Egyptian journeys, immediately after the Turkish conquest, all probably fell between 1517 and 1520; on one of these he ascended the Nile from Cairo to Aswan." The present work was probably first written in Arabic but the primary text now is in Italian, first published in 1526. Adams L-482; BM/STC French p. 216; Mendelssohn III, p. 86.