Description: Met alle de Landen, Koningrijken, Steden, Volken, Gewoonten, Gedierten, Vogelen, Boom- en Aard-vruchten die daar zijn. Mitsgaders De Koningen die daar geregeert, ende de Oorlogen die sy gevoert hebben, van den jare 1600 af [..]. Hier neffens is by-gevoegt een pertinente beschryvinge van de Kuste van Guinea, [..]. [Introd. by A. Leers]. Tot Rotterdam, By Arnout Leers [..], 1665, [8],320,[8 index] pp. With woodcut printer’s device, 1 fold. engraved general map of Africa (“Africae nova Tabula [..]”, ca. 18 x 25 cm.) after J. Hondius & 5 (of 6) engraved plates (dep. i.a. local costumes). 4to, 17th-cent. blindst. panelled vellum with large blindst. ornament central on both covers, ribbed spine. ? Tiele 651. Cat. NHSM p. 199. Scheepers I, 630. Cf. Howgego A17, Gay 258 & Cox I, pp. 355-356 (listing other editions). Very rare first & only Dutch edition (only 2 copies in NCC) based on Latin & French translations of a famous 16th-cent. geographical work on Africa by the Moorish traveller al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi (ca. 1494-1552) better known as Joannes Leo Africanus. “[..] his book Descrittione dell’Africa (Description of Africa) centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern exploration of Africa” (cited from Wikipedia). Ex bibliotheca John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret of Hawnes (1772-1849, British peer & politician) with his engraved circular armorial book-plate mounted on upper paste-down. ? Lacks 1 engraving (between pp. 118-119) dep. an archer. With defects (both covers sl. waterstained/ wrinkled, corners & upper rim sl. dam./ worn, lower paste-down partly missing, marg. waterstained throughout, a few leaves sl. torn/ frayed in outer blank margin).