America: Being the latest, and most Accurate Description of the New World; containing the Original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts..... a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the Unknown South-Land and the Arctick Region.

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First Issue of the First English Edition, in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, extremities quite worn, rubbed, upper joint split, lower starting but both holding. Internally, 58 plates, complete as per list, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, folding engraved general map of the Americas & 17 double-page or folding engraved maps, all with vibrant hand-colouring in outline (probably by an early hand executed before c.1800), 32 double-page or folding engraved plates, 6 engraved portraits & 57 large illustrations within text, list of plates at end, general map of Americas with some loss to foot, plate Angro op Tercera lightly creased & with small hole within image, plate Nova Mexico with vertical tears repaired with paper to verso but no loss, plate Viztlipuztli with short tear into image but no loss, map of Jamaica with light creasing & few short tears to foot but no loss, occasional light creasing & couple other short marginal tears to plates, browning to few plates, occasional light spotting or soiling. [7], [1], 674 pp, [1] pl list (signatures [1], A-3P4). Ogilby's lavishly illustrated & highly influential account of the Americas, the maps in this copy with vibrant hand-colouring in outline. This is a reissue of the 1670 first edition (Wing 0164), with cancel title page & added appendix. The work is an English translation of a monumental work on North & South America by Dutch writer Montanus, De nieuwe en Onbekeende Weereld, with considerable additions on New England, New France, Maryland & Virginia, compiled mainly from English sources. It includes a short section on 'New Netherland, now call'd New York', with accompanying map 'Novum Belgium quod nunc. Nov. Jorck vocatur'. Other maps include Maryland, Southern Virginia and Florida, Jamaica and Peru. This copy is with the plate 'Arx Carolina' at p.205 as called for, but does not include the map 'Barbados', not mentioned in list of plates but sometimes present. Provenance: Nath. Cholmley Esq. (engraved armorial bookplate). (420*266 mm). [Sabin 50089; Wing O165; ESTC R16958; JCB III 227-8]. 6 minor pagination errors, but complete. Title continues: also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions, their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the Unknown South-Land and the Arctick Region.