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Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in al ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : In foure parts. This first contayneth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud, the heathenish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their seuerall opinions, idols, oracles, temples, priests, fasts, feasts, sacrifices, and rites religious : their beginnings, proceedings, alterations, sects, orders, and successions : with briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature or humane industrie in the same ...
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- by Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate London
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- English
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- The third edition, much enlarged with additions through the whole worke
- London, : Printed by William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, 1617
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- [40], 1051, 1058-1102, [40] p. ; 33 cm (folio)
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- ocm23640962
- Edition statement precedes author's name on title page.
- First published in 1613. In nine books.
- Errors in paging: p. 196 misprinted as 198, 224 as 208,263 as 264, 327 as 227, 449 as 446, 638 as 628; 1052-1057 omitted in numbering.
- Text and register continuous despite pagination.
- Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁶ A⁸ B-5C⁶ 5D⁴ (G3 missigned as g3)
- Title page within ruled border; head and tail pieces; initials.
- Title within double-rule border; head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials and printed marginalia.
- Includes indexes: "The catalogue of the authors" and "The names of manuscripts, trauellers, and other authors, not yet printed, here mentioned and followed": leaves A4-A8; "An alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in this worke": leaves 5A3-5D4.
- English short title catalogue, S121769
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 66681
- Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 20507