John Ogilby

Portrait from a 1660 edition of [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'' John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie (17 November 16004 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this. Ogilby's most-noted works include translations of the works of Virgil and Homer, and his version of the Fables of Aesop.

Ogilby established Ireland's first theatre in Werburgh Street, Dublin, and following the Restoration, that country's first Theatre Royal. Ogilby played a significant part in arrangements for the coronation of King Charles II. Following the Great Fire of 1666, Ogilby's large-scale map of the City of London was founded on precise survey work, and his ''Britannia'' is the first road atlas of England and Wales to be based on surveys and measurements, and drawn to scale. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Britannia depicta ; or, Ogilby improved /
    by Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
    Published 1970
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    Mr. Ogilby's pocket book of roads : with the computed & measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
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    Asis. being an accurate description of Persia, and the several provinces thereof : the vast empire of the Great Mogol, and other parts of India, and their several kingdoms and regions : with the denominations and descriptions of the cities, towns, and places of remark therein contain'd : the various customs, habits, religion, and languages of the inhabitants : their political governments, and way of commerce : also the plants and animals peculiar to each country /
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    Intinerarium angliæ, or, A book of roads : wherein are contain'd the principal road-ways of His Majesty's Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps and illustrated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns /
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    The relation of His Majestie's entertainment passing through the city of London to his coronation : with a description of the triumphal arches and solemnity /
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    Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof, actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns, and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity : together with a novel discourse of the present state /
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    Æsopicks, or, A second collection of fables : paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations /
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    The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations /
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    Africa : being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages, their customs, modes and manners, languages, religions and inexhaustible treasure : with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter : and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds and serpents : collected and translated from most authentick authors and augmented with later observations : illustrated with notes and adorn'd with peculiar maps and proper sculptures /
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    The fables of Æsop : in two uolumes : paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with 160 copper sculptures, and illustrated with annotations /
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    London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties, with the courts, yards, alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane, and directions to find them in the map, with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts therein described /
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    The north-road from London to Barwick, and its branches to several of the principal towns, with their computed distances ...
    by Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
    Published 1676
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    America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the new vvorld : 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 : 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 : collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures /
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    The entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II, in his passage through the city of London to his coronation : containing an exact accompt of the whole solemnity, the triumphal arches, and cavalcade, delineated in sculpture, the speeches and impresses illustrated from antiquity : to these is added, a brief narrative of His Majestie's solemn coronation : with his magnificent proceeding, and royal feast in Westminster-Hall /
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    Aesopic's, or, A second collection of fables : paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations /
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    The Kings coronation : being an exact account of the cavalcade, with a description of the triumphal arches, and speeches prepared by the city of London for His late Majesty Charles the Second, in his passage from the Tower to Whitehall : also the narrative of His Majesties coronation, with his magnificant proceeding and feast in Westminster-Hall, April the 23th : as it was published by His Majesties order, with the approbation and license of Sir Edward Walker, Garter Principal King at Arms /
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    Mr. Ogilby's and William Morgan's Pocket book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post-towns /
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    A standing lottery of his own books design'd to be erected by the author, John Ogilby Esq., who hath in several years last past, printed and published at his own charge, several volumes of great value and beauty ...
    by Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
    Published 1664
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    The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another : wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads : and for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.
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    The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations /
    Microform Book
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