Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
[MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS.] Ogilby, John; translator. America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World. 19 maps, 39 plates, numerous illustrations in text, several plates misbound, folding general map defective and mended, map of Virginia and Florida hand-colored. [10], 674, [1] pages. Folio, later calf, scuffed; tightly trimmed with loss to some headlines, heavy insect and water damage (clumsily mended) in upper inside corner of last 20 leaves, modern endpapers, other minor faults. London: [J. Ogilby], 1671
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Essentially Ogilby's expanded translation of Montanus's 1671 "De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld." This copy has both variants of pages 197-200. They first appear as usual with the illustration on page 200, bound in as cancels, and then repeat in larger type, without the illustration. No other copies are known to include both variants. Early notations appear on the first set of these pages and nowhere else in the volume. One note above the illustration on page 200 reads "The Virginia Indians had no such temple or worship, must be by mistake inserted here." As this illustration was in fact later deleted, these two variant leaves may have perhaps come from an author's or printer's copy.
Also with the variant "Directions" leaf omitting the Barbados print from its list, although this map does appear in its proper place on page 377. With the scarce plates of "Arx Carolina" on page 205 and "Virginiæ partis australis et Floridæ" after page 213.
Borba de Moraes, page 626 (calls this the third issue); European Americana 671/207 and 208 (both variants); Howes O-41 (does not match either of his two issues); JCB III:227; Palau 177493; Sabin 50089; Stokes Manhattan VI:262. a rare complete copy of this richly illustrated work.