Purchas his pilgrimes. . In five bookes. The first, containing peregrinations and discoueries, in the remotest north and east parts of Asia; called Tartaria and China. The second, peregrinations, voyages, discoueries, of China, Tartaria, Rvssia, ... The third, voyages and discoueries of the north parts of the world, by land and sea, in Asia, Europe; the Polare regions, and in the north-west of America. The fourth, English northerne nauigations, and discoueries: ... The fifth, voyages and trauels to and in the New World, called America: ... The third part. ...
Samuel Purchas (1577-1626)
Category
Books
Date
1625
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3042239.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.4 : ill., maps, tables ; fol. Wanting plate of Virginia in vol.4. Provenance: manuscript notes on fly-leaves and title pages, mostly of bucks killed 1676, in hand of John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606-1685). Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet and roll pattern border, with quarter double blind fillets; single gilt fillet on board edges. Rebacked in calf. Gilt title and vol. no. on spines. Red stained edges.
Makers and roles
Samuel Purchas (1577-1626)