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 ... / by Samuel Purchas.

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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 ... / by Samuel Purchas. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1626.

Physical description

40 unnumbered pages, 967 pages, [1,047 pages, 18] leaves : engr. illustrations, 24 maps (1 folded) ; (folio)

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Edition

The fourth 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.
Copy 1 Note: All after p. 967 wanting.

References note

ESTC S111832
Sabin, 66682
STC (2nd ed.), 20508.5

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