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Author Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.
Uniform Title Della descrittione dell'Africa. English
Title 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
Alternative Title Della descrittione dell'Africa.
Publication Info Londini : [Printed by Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.


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Descript [8], 60; 420 p., folded plate : map
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.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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Author Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Africa -- Description and travel -- To 1900.
Alt author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Alternative Title Della descrittione dell'Africa.
Descript [8], 60; 420 p., folded plate : map
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.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Author Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Africa -- Description and travel -- To 1900.
Alt author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Alternative Title Della descrittione dell'Africa.

Subject Africa -- Description and travel -- To 1900.
Descript [8], 60; 420 p., folded plate : map
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.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Alt author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
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