Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
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1
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Ill. are woodcuts, comprising 22 half-page cuts of demons in books 1-2 (7 repeated once and 2 twice: 33 total); 2 half-page and 8 smaller cuts of sacraments, etc., within type-flower borders in book 3; publisher's device on t. p. and dedicatee's coat-of-arms on verso; floriated initials., Imperfect: Quire P (p. 225-240 wanting)., Imprint from colophon: Medolani, apud Bernardinum Lantonum, M. DC. VIII., Includes index., and Signatures: a⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁴(-Q4).
Publisher:
Apud haredes August. Tradati,
Subject (Topic):
Demonology--Early works to 1800., Exorcism--Early works to 1800., Occultism--Early works to 1800., and Wood-engraving, Italian--Specimens--17th century.
BEIN Taylor 57: [cross]4 wanting. Two detatched illustrations to accompany "Instrumentum syderale" in appendix are tipped in on final p., Colophon: Excusum Landshutae typis ac formulis d. Joannis Weyssenburgers: impensis Petri Apiani. Anno Christi Saluatoris omnium millesimo / quingentesimo / vicesimoquarto / mense Janu: Phebo Saturni domicilium possidente., Illustration of a globe on t.p. is repeated on p. 47; globe shows view of Africa and Asia. Map of Europe, Africa and Asia on p. 53, map of Greece on p. 58., Includes four volvelles (on p. 17, 24, 63 and app., p. [2])., Signatures: [*]⁴ A-N⁴ [cross]⁴ ([cross]4 [blank?])., and Title and the headings in "Summa et ordo operis" are in red, as are also parts of vignette, arms of the Abp. of Salsburg on verso of t.p., to whom the work is dedicated, and sphere on page preceding text.