Purchas, Samuel, Purchas his Pilgrimes…. Purchas his Pilgrimage. 1625-1626.

Jan 30, 2018 | Videos

Presented by Ben Houston of Peter Harrington Rare Books.

First edition of Purchas his Pilgrimes, with the engraved title-page (often lacking) dated 1625, the map of Virginia in vol. IV in the 10th state according to Burden, with the whole engraved area present (often trimmed with loss). With the fourth edition of the Pilgrimage, issued concurrently as a supplement, in the usual issue with the first quire reset, the title beginning Purchas (the other setting has Purchase), and the added dedication to King Charles. The fourth edition of the Pilgrimage is usually considered the best; first published in 1613, it gives Purchas’s account of the various religions encountered throughout the world. Together, this is the desired state of the complete set of Purchas’s important collection of travel and exploration narratives from ancient times up to and including the recent accounts of Virginia by John Smith. This is a lovely set in 18th-century calf.

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