Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905–7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

Samuel Purchas (Author)

9781108079730, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

554 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.81 kg

Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903–5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 1905–7. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (1577–1626) was a friend of Hakluyt, and based his great work in part on papers not published by Hakluyt before his death. As well as being a wide-ranging survey of world exploration, it is notable as an anti-Catholic polemic, and a justification of British settlement in North America. Volume 10 includes voyages to India, the East Indies and Japan, as well as the notes of the famous traveller Thomas Coryat 'on his last and fatal voyage'.

Part X: 1. Briefe collections of voyages, chiefly of Spaniards and Portugals
2. The summe of a letter of Nicholas Trigautius, touching his voyage to India
3. Letter touching Japon
4. Extracts of Master Caesar Frederike his eighteene yeeres Indian observations
5. Gasparo Balbi his voyage to Pegu
6. The voyage of Master Ralph Fitch to Ormus, and so to Goa
7. Indian observations
8. John Huighen van Linschoten his voyage to Goa
9. Relation of Ormuz
10. Travels of Sir Robert Sherley
11. The epitaphs on the tombe of Jacob Almansor the Saracenicall Emperour
12. Master Thomas Coryates travels
13. Relations of the travels of W. Lithgow
14. Late intelligence out of Turkie
15. Journall of Arnold Brown his Indian voyage
16. The Dutch late proceedings at Amboyna
17. A true description of the bay Todos los Santos in Brasil.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]