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Purchas, Samuel (1577?-1626) Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in all Ages and Place Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present.
London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1613.
Folio, first edition, ¶6, A8, B4, C-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Vuu6 (final blank Vuu6 present), bound in later boards, period style, rebacked, ex libris Humphry Sibthorp, with his bookplate, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Purchas's compendium of travel accounts is organized in four parts, describing geographical and theological histories of Asia, Africa, America, and Islands adjacent to America. Not merely a collector of tales, Purchas is an accomplished storyteller in his own right. "Now are wee shipped for the New World, and for new Discoveries. But seeing this Inkie Sea, through which I undertake a Pilot's office to conduct my Readers, is more peaceable then that which on the back-side of this American World, was called the Peaceable, by Magellane, the first discoverer." Purchas inspired S. T. Coleridge's Kubla Khan.
