Ogilby, John

Folio (16 x 10 1/2 in.; 410 x 265 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 56 maps, plates and portraits (6 single-page portraits, 31 double-page or folding views and plans, 19 folding maps), 66 engraved text illustrations. Expert restoration to the map of Carolina and the list of plates; faint damp stain in lower corner of a few pages. Nineteenth century smooth tan calf, arms of the Marquess of Bath on the upper and lower covers, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, tan morocco label in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt; minor scuffs and a little wear to corners.

Beriah Botfield, Marquess of Bath (gilt arms).

Arents 315A; cf. Baer (Md) 70A-C; cf. Borba de Moraes II, 626; Church 613; cf. European Americana 671/204-207; cf. JCB III, 227-228; Sabin 50089; cf. Stokes VI, p.262; K.S. van Eerde John Ogilby and the Tate of His Times p.107; Wing O-165.  References for the Carolina map: Cumming  Southeast in Early Maps 70; Degrees of Latitude 13

A very fine, large copy of Ogilby's first edition of this important work: a rare issue including Moxon's First Lords Proprietors map of Carolina, the first large-format map of the newly established colony of Carolina.

An English translation of Arnold Montanus De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, the present work additions concerning New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia. Divided into three sections and an appendix; the first gives an overall survey of the most important voyages and expeditions to the Americas, the second book offers a description of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Bermuda and North America, the third deals with South America, and the appendix includes a miscellany of information including notes on the 'Unknown South-Land', the `Arctick Region' and the search for the North-West passage.

The present copy is unusual in that it contains the so-called Lords Proprietors map by Moxon titled A New Discription [sic.] of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors - a map that was commissioned by Ogilby for this work, but which was not included in the earlier issues of the book as it was apparently not available until 1672.

The present complete copy is the second issue of the first edition, without the "Arx Carolina" plate or the "Virginia pars Australis & Florida" map, but with the Lord Proprietors map and a map of Barbados, and retaining the first issue list of plates.

A key work in the mapping of the southeast.