PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMAGE. OR RELATIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE RELIGIONS OBSERVED IN ALL AGES AND PLACES DISCOVERED, FROM THE CREATION UNTO THIS PRESENT. IN FOURE PARTS. THIS FIRST CONTAINETH A THEOLOGICALL AND GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA, WITH THE ISLANDS ADIACENT. DECLARING THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS BEFORE THE FLOVD, THE HEATHNISH, JEWISH, AND SARACENICALL IN ALL AGES SINCE, IN THOSE PARTS PROFESSED, WITH THEIR SEUERALL OPINIONS, IDOLS, ORACLES, TEMPLES, PRIESTS, FASTS, FEASTS, SACRIFICES, AND RITES RELIGIOUS: THEIR BEGINNINGS, PROCEEDINGS, ALTERATIONS, SECTS, ORDERS AND SUCCESSIONS. WITH BRIEFE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COUNTRIES, NATIONS, STATES, DISCOUERIES; PRIVATE AND PUBLIKE CUSTOMES, AND THE MOST REMARKABLE RARITIES OF NATU

Purchas, Samuel

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Folio, 10 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. Full contemporary paneled leather, blind stamped double fillets. Some scuffing to boards. Mild rubbing to extremities. Skilful conservation (rebacking). 5 raised bands. later red leather spine label, ruled and lettered in gilt. pp. [28], 331, 330-851, 862-889, 900-918, [36]. Errata sheet final page. Remnants of possible bookplate removed from front pastedown. Titlepage expertly mounted on laid paper, ruled in black. Bottom rule absent due to trimmed edges. Damp stain to lower outer corner, affecting pp [1]-472, although very faint after pp. 23,for the most part, affecting but not obscuring catchwords. Chip to outer edge of leaf A4 and A5 (4 in. by 1/2 in.), affecting only margins. Edges neatly trimmed close to text, nearest to signatures and catchwords. Pages lightly tanned and clean throughout. (ESTC S111828) (European Americana 614/94) (Sabin 66679). The renowned geographical compiler Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) began his illustrious career with the publication of Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, first published in 1613. Purchas meticulously compiled oral and manuscript travel accounts from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. In this monumental work, Purchas attempts to synthesize different religions across the globe into a singular, coherent history. In effect, Purchas takes the reader on a "pilgrimage" through the world's religions. Purchase himself never travelled, but the novelty of the work lends itself to his humanist methods. John G. Demaray summarizes Purchas's scrupulous process, "Purchas called for multiple reports, reliance on concrete data, the constant publication of accumulating evidence, inductive analysis, open diversified discourse, the citation of all sources, annotations on source reliability, freedom from outside political or other pressures, and the widest possible unimpaired access to information" (From Pilgrimage to History, 102). M.G. Anne explains that Purchas absorbed "the contributions of Ralegh, Hakluyt, and Bacon to find an empirical, humanist method for writing global history.in Purchas his pilgrimage he uses rational thought to organize his sense of biblical history" (Renaissance Quarterly, 683). Second Edition, much Enlarged with Additions through the whole Worke.

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• Titre: PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMAGE. OR RELATIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE RELIGIONS OBSERVED IN ALL AGES AND PLACES DISCOVERED, FROM THE CREATION UNTO THIS PRESENT. IN FOURE PARTS. THIS FIRST CONTAINETH A THEOLOGICALL AND GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA, WITH THE ISLANDS ADIACENT. DECLARING THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS BEFORE THE FLOVD, THE HEATHNISH, JEWISH, AND SARACENICALL IN ALL AGES SINCE, IN THOSE PARTS PROFESSED, WITH THEIR SEUERALL OPINIONS, IDOLS, ORACLES, TEMPLES, PRIESTS, FASTS, FEASTS, ...
• Éditeur: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Rose, London, England
• Date de parution: 1614
• Reliure: Leather-bound
• État de l'article: Good
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  • Travel, Exploration