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Author
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Title
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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Publisher
London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone
Description
40 unnumbered pages, 967 pages, [1047 pages, 18] leaves : (folio)
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

Subjects: Religions; Voyages and travels; Geography; Discoveries in geography; Geography; Religions; Voyages and travels; America
Language English
Publication date 1626
publication_date QS:P577,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries
Accession number
b30334652
Notes Copyright is on title page.
Pages are stained.
Irregular pagination.
Authority file  OCLC: 1155406988
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Internet Archive identifier: b30334652
https://archive.org/download/b30334652/b30334652.pdf
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