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 J...

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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 J...

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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>

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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