Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, first edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title in red and black, large folding double-page map of Africa, 43 engraved double-page maps, views, scenes and plans, 8 single-page plates, 9 sheets of letterpress tables (misbound), engraved initials, head-pieces and numerous illustrations to text, additional folding plate titled "Teneo te Africa" bound in at front, 2 facsimile maps bound in at rear, lacking half-title, map of Africa with tear at foot of inner margin and along horizontal fold, latter repaired but with small loss to image, several double-page plates with tear at foot of inner margin, most neatly repaired with paper to verso, slight creasing to a few plates, some browning and light foxing, armorial bookplate of William East, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers worn, rubbed, [Wing O163], folio, Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, 1670.

⁂ First edition of this important work on Africa, the most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, largely based on the work of Olfert Dapper. The letterpress tables, rather than being bound at the end of the preliminaries (as called for by Wing), are interspersed throughout the text.