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PURCHAS (SAMUEL) Purchas His Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes, 5 vol., 1625-1626 image 1
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Lot 384

PURCHAS (SAMUEL)
Purchas His Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes, 5 vol.

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£70,000 - £90,000

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A very good, tall copy with wide margins, of Purchas' monumental work, "a complete set... of one of the fullest and most important collections of early voyages and travels in the English language" (Sabin). Essentially a continuation and enlargement of Hakluyt's Principall Naviagtions, it did however contain many accounts which had not been published before, and included many translations of foreign works together with some of the first examples in print of several oriental languages. Includes accounts of Cortes and Pizarro, Drake, Cavendish, John and Richard Hawkins, Quiros, Magellan, van Noort, Spillbergen, and Barents, the great Portuguese voyages to the East Indies, Jesuit voyages to China and Japan, East India Company voyages, and the expeditions of the Muscovy Company.

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