JOANNES LEO AFRICANUS.

A GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF AFRICA. 

Written in Arabicke and Italian...
Translated and collected by John Pory.


London: Georg. Bishop. 1600

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, rare

Size 6.5 by 9.5"

 [8, title and preliminaries], 1-60, 1-420 pages

With two portrait engravings separated by tissue guards (bound in but supplied from another the same period book), and woodcut device on title-page.

Later plain green binding, spine lettered in gilt.

Missing fold-out map, not illustrated, otherwise very good condition

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First edition in English of the first book on Africa written by an African.

Johannes Leo Africanus, whose real name was Hasan ben Mohamed Alfasi, was a geographer and diplomat from Granada.

He had traveled all over the Muslim African countries and in 1517 was captured by Christian pirates, who took him and the manuscript of his travels to Rome.
There, under the patronage of Pope Leo X, he translated his manuscript into Latin for publication.
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