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
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3042240
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ill., maps. ; fol. Manuscript references in seventeenth-century hand at rear of v.4. Provenance: early nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate: HHH [i.e. Henry Hugh Holbech (1779-1835)]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; double blind fillet border; gilt roll on board edges. Manuscript paper spine labels survive on v. 3 & 4: Purchas 3 [-4th] part.
Makers and roles
Samuel Purchas (1577-1626)