Shelfmark
Ag.4.03 - Ag.4.06
Author
Title
Purchas his pilgrimes. In five bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarks, apostles, philosophers and others ... The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations ... 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 ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the Ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others, and the Indian nauigations ... The fifth, nauigations ... of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop, 1625.
Physical description
4v., plates : ill. ; Fo.
Note
Vol. I wants engraved title-page, reading "Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes", and final leaf, which is supplied in ms.
Note
Parts I-II and III-IV continuously paginated, except Part I, Book I, which is paginated separately.
Note
Frequent mis-pagination.
With note
[Bound with:] "Purchase his pilgrimage ...", 1626 (as a 5 vol. set).
Citation/references note
STC 20509
Provenance
Previous shelfmark: Dh.3.4-8.
Provenance
Label recording bequest to Eton by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Provenance
Inscription with name "Mr. Marsh".
Binding
18th century gold-tooled calf.
Copy-specific note
Some text cropped when rebound.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations.
Subject
Voyages and travels Early works to 1800.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B10681