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The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake


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Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, 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 Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ...

Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.

OTHER TITLES
Purchas his pilgrimage

Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discoured, from the creation vnto this present

Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation unto this present

CREATED/PUBLISHED
The 4th ed., much enl. with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall Empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenivs.
London, Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626.

NOTES
LC copy bound uniformly with the author's 4-vol. compilation: Haklvytvs posthumus or Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, 1625; and lettered: Purchas's Pilgrims. Vol. V; spine wrongly numbered "6".

STC, 20508

Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 40

For full collation see Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, under 401A ("Vol. 5. Second issue")

"The catalogve of the avthors": p. [31-38] (1st group)

"Two relations, one of the northeasterne parts, extracted ovt of Sir Ierome Horsey ... The other, of the sovtheasterne parts, viz. Golchonda ... written by Mr. William Methold": p. [969]-1007, incl. special t.p.

"The Saracentical historie ... Written in Arabike by George Elmacin ... And translated into Latine by Thomas Erpenius ... Englished, abridged, and continued to the end of the Chalifa's, by Samuel Purchas ...": p. [1009]-1047, incl. special t.p.

Includes index.

SUBJECTS
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

RELATED NAMES
Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.
Methold, William, 1590-1653.
Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-'Amīd, 1205-1273.
Erpenius, Thomas, 1584-1624.
Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

RELATED TITLES
Purchas his Pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage.

MEDIUM
[40], 1047 (i.e. 1051), [35] p. illus., maps (1 fold.) 35 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G159 .P98

DIGITAL ID
rbdk d0405 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbdk.d0405

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Bound uniformly with)

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