America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World.

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Joel Scott Cognevich just alerted me to an interesting book:

John Ogilby
Title
America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World.
Publication Place / Date
London / 1673

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/53619/america-being-the-lat...

A Truly Handsome Example of Ogilby's Treatise on America, Including the Rare Maps of Maryland and the Carolinas.

Probably the best illustrated English book on the Americas published during the 17th century.

This is the preferred second issue of Ogilby's English translation of Montanus's work, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, published in the same year. Complete as issued, with the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map replaced with the large folding "First Lords Proprietors" map and the map of Barbados at page 377. The final leaf of instructions for placing the plates retains the first issue listing, not reflecting the present changes.

His biography is noted here:

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/53619/america-being-the-lat...

John Ogilby (1600-1676) was an English geographer and publisher, one of the most prominent of the seventeenth century. Little is known of his early life but by 1619 he was apprenticed to John Draper, a dancing-master in London. He worked as a dancing-master, courtier, and theater owner form 1620-1641. From 1649 he worked as a poet, translator, and publisher of classical texts. It is only in the last decade of his life that he entered into geography. …

and the book can be read online here:

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/america00ogil

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