[Africa] Leo Africanus, J. Pertinente Beschryvinge van Africa,

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 (...). Rott., Leers A., 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 and 6 plates (dep. i.a. local costumes), cont. overlapping vellum, 4to. Top of spine sl. dam, otherwise a very fine copy.

Tiele 651; cat. NHSM p. 199; Scheepers I, 630. Cf. Howgego A17, Gay 258 and Cox I, p. 355-356 (listing other editions). Very rare first and only Dutch edition, the first to include the Hondius map. Hardly ever offered for sale (especially in complete condition). Based on the Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica (1526), by al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezzaz al-Fasi (ca. 1494-1552), known as Joannes Leo Africanus. His 'Description of Africa' was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative account of the Maghreb and Nile Valley until the modern exploration of Africa. (Vrolijk/ Van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 7).