Pvrchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation unto this present. In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the flovd, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since. With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries ... remarkable rarities of nature ... in the same / By Samuel Pvrchas.

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Pvrchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation unto this present. In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the flovd, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since. With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries ... remarkable rarities of nature ... in the same / By Samuel Pvrchas. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by W. S[tansby for H. Fetherstone], [1613]

Physical description

14 unnumbered leaves, 752 pages, 20 unnumbered pages ; (folio)

Edition

1st ed.

Notes

Title within line border
Signatures: [printer's mark] in six, A3, B4, C-Ttt6, Vuu5
Paging irregular: p. 35, 134, 212, 214, 231, 369, 379, 473, 485, 490, 491 incorrectly numbered 33, 132, 112, 114, 131, 373, 373, 467, 483, 489, 490 respectively; 470-473 repeated in numbering, 657-676 omitted
Imperfect: p. 393-394 (sig. Mm 1) p. 403-404 (sig. Mm 6) and two leaves in the "Table" at end, wanting
"The catalogue of the authors": prelim. leaves 12-14
The "4th ed" (1626) is generally found as v. 1 or v. 5 of the author's Hakluytus posthumus, 1625

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STC 20505
ESTC S121937
Sabin, 66678
STC (2nd ed.), 20505

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