Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ...
By: by Samuel Purchas
Contributors: Horsey, Jerome, 1550?-1626; Methold, William, 1590-1653; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273; Erpenius, Thomas, 1584-1624; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612; Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630
Edition: The fourth edition / much enlarged with additions.
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone
Published: 1626
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1047
Subjects: Religions; Voyages and travels; Geography; Discoveries in geography
Notes: This edition, the last in Purchas' lifetime was published at the suggestion of King James I and the request of King Charles I to accompany the first edition of the author's Pilgrimes published in 1625.

Most of the maps are taken from Hondius; the folded map of China may have been engraved by Elstracke.

Title within rule frame; headlines within double rule.

Side notes in outer margins; line count in inner margins.

Head and tail pieces; initials.

With the dedication to King Charles, p. [3]-[4]

Separate title page for the Horsey and Methold works, p. [969], and for Erpenius' translation, p. [1009]

Index: p. [1049]-[1083]

Pages 243-248, 249, 250-475, 476, 477-489, 490, 491-638, 639-853, 854, 855-1051 misnumbered 241-246, 243, 248-473, 475, 475-487, 489, 489-636, 635-849, 805, 851-1047 respectively.

Folio; signature: paragraph mark⁶ (paragraph mark6+chi1), 2 paragraph mark⁶, A⁸, B-P3p⁶, Q3q⁸, R3r-S3s⁶, T3t⁸, V3u-Y3y⁴, Z3z⁶. Leaf Y3y*1 not signed.

Lowndes, IV, 2011.

STC 20508.5.

ESTC S111832.

Sabin, 66682.

STC (2nd ed.), 20508.5.