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Pvrchas 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 : declaring the ancient religions before the flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their seuerall opinions ... with briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of natvre, or humane industrie, in the same /

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Main Author: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626, (Author)
Corporate Authors: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress), English Printing Collection (Library of Congress), Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress), Thordarson Collection
Contributors: Horsey, Jerome, 1550?-1626., Methold, William, 1590-1653., Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273., Erpenius, Thomas, 1584-1624., Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Rose, 1626.
Edition:The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes though the whole worke, and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions /
Subjects and Genres:
Voyages and travels > Early works to 1800.
Religions > Early works to 1800.
Geography > Early works to 1800.
Voyages > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Religions > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Géographie > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Discoveries in geography.
Geography.
Religions.
Travel.
Voyages and travels.
America > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800.
East Indies > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800.
Africa > Discovery and exploration > Sources.
Asia > Description and travel > Sources.
Amérique > Découverte et exploration > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Indes orientales > Découverte et exploration > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Afrique > Découverte et exploration > Sources.
Asie > Descriptions et voyages > Sources.
Africa.
America.
Asia.
Asia > East Indies.
Maps.
Early works.
Sources.
Cartes géographiques.
Online Access:http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbdk.d0405
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Item Description: Signatures: [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁶ A⁸ B-4P⁶ 4Q⁸ 4R-4S⁶ 4T⁸ 4U-4Y⁴ 4Z⁶.
Errors in pagination. Quire Y numbered: 241, 242, 241-246, 245, 248-250; quire 3I numbered: 635-636, 635-644. Text is continuous.
"Two relations, one of the northeasterne parts, extracted ovt of Sir Ierome Horsey ... the other, of the sovtheasterne parts, viz. Golchonda ... written by Mr. William Methold": pages [969]-1007, incl. special title page.
"The Saracentical historie ... written in Arabike by George Elmacin ... and translated into Latine by Thomas Erpenius ... Englished, abridged, and continued to the end of the Chalifa's, by Samuel Purchas": pages [1009]-1047, incl. special title page.
LC copy of the single vol. of the Pvrchas his Pilgrimage and the four vols. of the author's Haklvtvs posthumus ([London] : Imprinted at London for Henry Fetherston at y[e]e signe of the rose in Pauls Churchyard, 1625) are bound in the same manner subsequent to publication. The spines of all five vols. are lettered, "Purchas's Pilgrims," and are numbered I, II, III, IV, V (i.e., the author's single vol. of Pvrchas his Pilgrimage is numbered "VOL. V").
Physical Description: 40 unnumbered pages, 1047 (i.e. 1051) pages, 37 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, maps ; 35 cm (fol. in 6s)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place of Publication: England -- London.

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