d'ablancourt

Updated: May 6, 2025

Leo was a Spanish Moor, who left Spain at the reduction of Grenada, and travelled a long time in Europe, Asia, and Africa: his description of the northern parts of Africa is the most full and accurate. L'Afrique de Marmol. Paris, 1669. 3 vols. 4to. This translation, by D'Ablancourt, of a very scarce Portuguese writer, is not made with fidelity.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson