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OGILBY (JOHN)
America, Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World; Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, by the Author, 1671

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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OGILBY (JOHN)

America, Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World; Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by John Ogilby, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 49 engraved double-page or folding plates and maps (including general Americas with California as an island), 6 single engraved portraits, lacks final leaf listing plates and maps of "Arx Carolina" and "Virginia pars Australis & Florida", "Nova virginiae tabula" map loose (inserted from another copy), Qq5 repaired with loss of a few words and affecting one illustration, light dampstain to lower fore-corner towards end, nineteenth-century calf gilt with Botfield arms on sides [Wing 0165; Sabin 50089], folio (410 x 252mm.), by the Author, 1671

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John Ogilby's America is a translation of Montanus's De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, to which he added substantially from other (mostly English) sources, especially for the sections concerning New England and New France, Maryland and Virginia.

Provenance: Beriah Botfield, arms on sides; Marquess of Bath, by descent; Christie's, 13 June 2002, lot 108.

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