Purchas his pilgrimes. In five bookes... [etc] (v.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Purchas his pilgrimes. In five bookes... [etc] (v.4)
Classmark: BC Trv q/PUR
Creator(s): Purchas, Samuel (1577?-1626)
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1625
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281298
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001338339705181
Description
Vols.1-2, 3-4, paged continuously except Book 1 of vol.1 which is paged separately. Many errors in pagination. (See Lowndes: 'Bibliographer's manual of English literature,' vol.4 for full collation).
To this collection is usually added, as a fifth volume, the fourth edition of the 'Pilgrimage'.
Contents (from title-page): The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diversified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-navigations of the globe. The third, navigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, Indian, shoares, continents, and ilands. The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinae with others, and the Indian navigations further prosecuted: their iust commerce, nobly vindicated against Turkish treacherie; victoriously defended against Portugall hostilitie; gloriously advanced against Moorish and ethnike perfidie; hopefully recovering from Dutch malignitie; iustly
maintayned against ignorant and malicious calumnie. The fifth, navigations, voyages, traffiques, discoveries, of the English nation in the Easterne parts of the world: continuing the English-Indian occurrents, and contayning the English affaires with the great Samorine, in the Persian and Arabian Gulfes, and in other places of the continent, and ilands of and beyond the Indies: the Portugall attempts, and Dutch disasters, divers sea-fights with both; and many other remarkable relations.
Indexed in: STC 20509.
Additional description
With armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton
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