Purchas his Pilgrimage : Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America with the ilands adiacent... [etc]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Purchas his Pilgrimage : Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America with the ilands adiacent... [etc]
Other titles: Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrims. Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others; Two relations, one of the northeasterne parts, extracted out of Sir Ierome Horsey knight, his many yeeres obseruations and experience... The other, of the southeasterne parts, viz. Golchonda, and other adjacent kingdomes within the bay of Bengala; The Saracenical historie, contayning the acts of the Muslims from Muhammed to the reigne of Atabaceus in the succession of nine and fortie emperours
Classmark: BC Trv quarto PUR
Creator(s): Purchas, Samuel (1577?-1626)
Additional creator(s): Horsey, Jerome (1550?-1626) (Other); Methold, William (1590-1653) (Other); Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd (1205-1273) (Other); Erpenius, Thomas (1584-1624) (Other)
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1626
Language: English
Size and medium: 40 unnumbered pages, 1, 047 pages, 35 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281681
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001404689705181
Description
Issue with title "Purchas..." and added dedication to King Charles I.
This edition was published at the suggestion of King James I and the request of King Charles I to accompany the first ed. of the author's Pilgrimes published in 1625.
Separate t.p. for the Horsey and Methold works, p. [969], and for Erpenius' translation, p. [1009].
Many pages misnumbered.
The "three whole treatises" are: "one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius."--t.p.
Includes index.
Indexed in: STC 20508.5 (A variant issue, not recorded in STC, has spelling 'Purchase' on title-page).
Additional description
This fourth edition of the 'Pilgrimage' is bound to form the fifth volume of the 'Pilgrimes'. The Brotherton Collection copy has matching binding, lettered: Purchas his pilgrimes. Vol V. Armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton inside front cover
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