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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Contributor:

Pory, John, 1572-1636.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 262:12.

Standardized Title:

Della descrittione dell'Africa. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Description and travel--To 1900.

Local Subjects:

Africa--Description and travel--To 1900.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 60; 420 pages, folded plate : map

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Della descrittione dell'Africa.

Place of Publication:

Londini : [Printed by Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.

Notes:

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.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1945. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 262:12). s1945 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 15481.

OCLC:

55162326