Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid,

Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Ogilby, John (1600-1676) (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1670
Place: London
Library locations
General Research Division
Shelf locator: BKD+ (Ogilby, J. Africa: being an accurate description)
Topics
South Africa
Islands of the Indian Ocean
Islands of the Atlantic
Africa -- Description and travel
Genres
Illustrations
Prints
Maps
Books
Notes
Content: Title in red and black; initials; headpieces.
Content: Stamp at head of title: J.(?) Morrison Hunter(?)
Content: Plates opposite p. 74, 101, 470, 524, 590 lacking.
Content: "A catalogue of the names of the general authors, both ancient and modern, besides later voyagers, consulted to the carrying on of this first volume": 7th prelim. leaf.
Type of Resource
Still image
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG754651074-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10276148
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 510aa2d0-c6e7-012f-25d3-58d385a7bc34
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x Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands ... collected and translated from most authentick authors ... by John Ogilby ..
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