John Ogilby (1600-1676). Pagus Hispanorum in Florida [St. Augustine], (London: 1671). Engraving, black and white as originally published. Image: 10 ½ x 14 in. Platemark is visible with adequate margins. Slight toning along margin edges; 3 small spots of foxing in lower and right margins; pencil mark at left margin. Overall, very good condition.
$750.00
Nice example of Ogilby’s important early view of St. Augustine. St. Augustine was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez, as a base of operations for protection of the Spanish trade routes to its American colonies in the West Indies. Menendez named the settlement St. Augustine, after the day of the festival of San Augustine. Published in John Ogilby’s seminal atlas America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World, published in London in 1671. Ogilby’s work is an English translation of Arnoldus Montanus’ Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld…, published in Amsterdam, although greatly expanded in some instances and with new maps and views.
John Ogilby was an English geographer and publisher, one of the most prominent of the seventeenth century, even though he didn’t enter into geography until the last decade of his life. In 1649, he published his first translation, of Virgil, and continued to put out translations in the 1650s and 1660s. In March 1661 he was reconfirmed as master of revels in Ireland and appointed king’s printer. In 1666 he returned to London, only to lose much of his printing stock in the Great Fire. Post-fire, he became assistant surveyor to the city.
In 1669, Ogilby published Embassy to China. At the same time, he planned to release atlases that would cover the entire world. These atlases would be funded via subscriptions, advertisements, and lotteries—all common practice at the time, especially for expensive multi-volume works. He released Africa and Atlas Japannensis in 1670, America in 1671 and Atlas Chinensis in 1671, and Asia in 1673.
In 1671, while producing the atlases, Ogilby was awarded another royal title, that of his Majesty’s cosmographer. He used this title when publishing Britannia in 1675, his best-known work. The Britannia is best described as a road atlas; it shows 2519 miles of road in 100 strip maps. This technique would be widely adopted in the subsequent century. His method of measuring with a waywiser, a large wheel, also helped to standardize the distance of the English mile at 1760 yards. The Britannia was a major achievement in early E
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