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PURCHAS, Samuel.
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others.
Publisher: Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, 1905–7
Stock code: 32916
Price: £6,000 Currency Conversion
Limited Edition, one of 100 copies only on handmade paper for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, an exact reprint of the best 1625 edition with modernised orthography, references to the original pagination, and an improved index.
20 volumes, octavo. Publisher's quarter vellum, spines lettered and decorated gilt, gilt medallions to front covers, blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others uncut. Folding plates, facsimiles, etc. Endpapers slightly browned, one or two corners lightly bumped, else a fine set.
