Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PURCHAS, SAMUEL. Purchas His Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in All Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation until this Present. [24] (of [28]), 752, [22] pages, including final blank; lacks A7-8. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, front cover fore edge slightly damaged in 2 places, outer corners restored, surface cracks in rear cover; opening leaves slightly frayed and dog-eared, title soiled, some marginal toning and light dampstaining. Calwich Library armorial bookplate. London: William Stansby, 1613

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first edition of the first comprehensive study of the diversity of world religions; pages 601-752 concern the Americas. STC 20505; Alden 613/106; see Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, pages 215-18 and 235-38.