Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ...

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Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ...

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London

Edition Notes

This edition, the last in Purchas' lifetime was published at the suggestion of King James I and the request of King Charles I to accompany the first edition of the author's Pilgrimes published in 1625.

Most of the maps are taken from Hondius; the folded map of China may have been engraved by Elstracke.

Title within rule frame; headlines within double rule.

Side notes in outer margins; line count in inner margins.

Head and tail pieces; initials.

With the dedication to King Charles, p. [3]-[4]

Separate title page for the Horsey and Methold works, p. [969], and for Erpenius' translation, p. [1009]

Index: p. [1049]-[1083]

Pages 243-248, 249, 250-475, 476, 477-489, 490, 491-638, 639-853, 854, 855-1051 misnumbered 241-246, 243, 248-473, 475, 475-487, 489, 489-636, 635-849, 805, 851-1047 respectively.

Folio; signature: paragraph mark⁶ (paragraph mark6+chi1), 2 paragraph mark⁶, A⁸, B-P3p⁶, Q3q⁸, R3r-S3s⁶, T3t⁸, V3u-Y3y⁴, Z3z⁶. Leaf Y3y*1 not signed.

Lowndes, IV, 2011.

STC 20508.5.

ESTC S111832.

Sabin, 66682.

STC (2nd ed.), 20508.5.

The Physical Object

Pagination
40 unnumbered pages, 967 pages, [1047 pages, 18] leaves
Number of pages
1047

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OL32345983M
Internet Archive
b30334652

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