Ogilby, John.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

Asia, the first part, being an accurate description of Persia, and the several provinces thereof. The vast empire of the Great Mogol, and other parts of India: and their several kingdoms and regions. London: Printed by the author, 1673
paper

Volume 1 (all published), first (and only) edition, folio (410 x 250mm.), engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black, folding map, 4 double-page maps, 28 plates (12 double-page) and illustrations in text, nineteenth-century calf gilt with Botfield arms on sides (see illustration to lot 205 on p.105 for comparable binding), folding map, A1-4 and 2M4 all loosely inserted (from another copy), without B1 (?blank, cf. Macclesfield copy, lot 3229, also without B1)

Catalogue Note

Although not specified on the title, Ogilby's work is in part a translation of Olfert Dapper's Asia (1672), and covers all of Asia, excluding China and Japan. It contains in particular accounts of the Persian empire, a discourse on oriental languages and the practice of suttee. Japan was described in a separate work in 1670 (see lot 205).