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Johannes Leo Africanus (c. 1494-c. 1554) De Totius Africae Descriptione Libri IX.
Antwerp: Joan. Latium, 1556.
First Latin edition translated by J. Florianus; woodcut printer's device to title; bound in later half parchment with marbled paper boards and later spine label; 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fas into a Berber family in Granada, the author served as a diplomat for Spain. This important work focuses on Northwest Africa and the Nile Valley and was considered the most reliable reporting on the continent in the period.
