A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge.
1600
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A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge.
Uniform title
Della descrittione dell'Africa. English
Created/published
Londini : [Printed by Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.
Description
[8], 60; 420 p., folded plate : map ; (fol.)
Associated name
Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550. author.
Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.
Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.
Note
A translation of: Della descrittione dell'Africa.
Printer's name from STC.
"Iohn Leo his first booke of the description of Africa" (caption title) begins new pagination and register.
An imprint variant of STC 15481.5.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-e⁶ A-O⁶ Q-2N⁶.
Entered 1 September [1600]
Printer's name from STC.
"Iohn Leo his first booke of the description of Africa" (caption title) begins new pagination and register.
An imprint variant of STC 15481.5.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-e⁶ A-O⁶ Q-2N⁶.
Entered 1 September [1600]
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available for copy 2.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 15481
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S108481
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S108481
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Annotations.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 15481 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH132/29. Manuscript shelf-mark label on front fly-leaf: 3620. Limp vellum binding, with evidence of ties. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Jo: Atkinson"; Richard Heber copy (cf. Folger card file); bought from F. Edwards, cat. 395:7; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 15481 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs138. Manuscript markings, including manuscript shelf-mark on front inside cover and manuscript price on front free endpaper. Map bound before t.p. Leaf E6 stained, affecting text. Provenance: inscriptions on front free endpaper: "Exeter 1644"; "John Burghley" and "Thomas S[?]h"; armorial bookplate of Thomas Fuller; bought by Folger from Sotheby sale, 18 May 1903:756
Call number
STC 15481 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs927. Imperfect: lacking map. Vellum binding. Provenance: bought by Folger from Butland, 1921, cat. 28:12
Call number
STC 15481 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs71. Imperfect: lacking map. Some manuscript notes. Leaf a4 torn, with loss of manuscript mark of ownership?. Cropped, affecting direction-lines and printed marginal notes. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Joh: [John] Kennell"; and manuscript mark of ownership?: "d f[?]"; bought by Folger from Bangs sale, 9-11 April 1901:1