Historiale description de l'Afrique, tier ce partie du monde : contenant ses royaumes, regions, viles , citez, chateaus & fortresses : iles, fleuves, animaus, tant aquatiques, que terrestres : coutumes, loix, religion et façon de faire des habitans, avec pourtraits de leurs habis : ensemble autres choses memorables & singulieres nouveautez / Escrite de nôtre temps par Jean Leon, African ; premierement en langue arabesque, puis en toscane, et à present mise en françois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Contributor:

Temporal, Jean, translator.

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.

Series:

Early European books.

Language:

Arabic

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

History.

Africa--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Africa.

Africa--History--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 unnumbered leaves, 412 leaves, 24 unnumbered leaves) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

En Anvers : De l'imprimerie de Christophle Plantin, 1556.

Language Note:

Translation by Jean Temporal of the Italian version of Leo which first appeared in Ramusio's 'Viaggi'. Cf. Wellcome Library catalog.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"Auec priuilege."

Printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf; initials; printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original in: The Wellcome Library (London England).

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2012 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2012 miun o

Cited in:

Wellcome cat. of printed books, 3728

OCLC:

877825271

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.