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Montanus, Arnoldus - John Ogilby
Estimate
35,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description
America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World ... collected from most Authentick Authors ... by John Ogilby Esq. London: Printed by the Author and are to be had at his House in White Fryers, 1671
Folio (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.; 410 x 270 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title printed in red and black, 56 plates including 50 double-page or folding maps or views and 6 engraved portraits, 66 engraved text illustrations (including view of New Amsterdam at p. 171); some light browning on some text leaves, heavier on frontispiece and 3 plates (the map of New York, the view of St. Martin, map of Venezuela), occasional light marginal spotting. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, gold-tooled in a panel design with floral stamps at four corners, marbled edges; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners and edges worn, covers scuffed.
Folio (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.; 410 x 270 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title printed in red and black, 56 plates including 50 double-page or folding maps or views and 6 engraved portraits, 66 engraved text illustrations (including view of New Amsterdam at p. 171); some light browning on some text leaves, heavier on frontispiece and 3 plates (the map of New York, the view of St. Martin, map of Venezuela), occasional light marginal spotting. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, gold-tooled in a panel design with floral stamps at four corners, marbled edges; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners and edges worn, covers scuffed.
Provenance
John Brownlowe, 5th Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel (18th c. engraved armorial bookplate and Belton House bookplate)
Literature
Wing O-165; Sabin 50089; Alden-Landis 671/205
Catalogue Note
First English edition with Ogilby's considerable additions from other and more reliable sources with regard to New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia, using mostly English sources. He also has a short section on "New Netherland, now call'd New York," which details the transfer of sovreignty from the Netherlands to England in 1664.
This work was considered as the second volume in his projected "English Atlas" series (which included Japan and Africa), and the title label bears the designation "Mr. Ogilby's Atlas Tom:II". This issue contains both plates "Arx Carolina" (p. 205) and "Virginiae pars Australis et Florida" (p. 213) which are also listed in the directions for the binder at the end.