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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

 
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dc.contributor.author Leo, Africanus, ca. 1492-ca. 1550.
dc.contributor.author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
dc.coverage.placeName London
dc.date.accessioned 2018-05-25
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-08T11:29:05Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-08T11:29:05Z
dc.date.created 1600
dc.date.issued 2003-01
dc.identifier ota:A05331
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/A05331
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/A05331
dc.description.abstract 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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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Africa -- Description and travel -- To 1900.
dc.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
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identifier.stc STC 15481
identifier.stc ESTC S108481
otaterms.date.range 1600-1699

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