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)

9781108079976, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

668 pages, 3 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.97 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 12 contains Anthony Jenkinson's account of Russia, and narratives on China, Japan and the Philippines, by both merchants and Jesuit missionaries.

Part II: 1. (cont.) The voyage of Anthony Jenkinson
2. Observations of China, Tartaria, and other easterne parts
3. Spanish plantations of the Philippinas
4. The report of a Mahometan merchant
5. A generall collection of the Jesuites entrance into Japon and China
6. A letter written in the court of the king of China
7. A discourse of the kingdome of China
8. A continuation of the jesuites acts and observations in China
Part III: 1. A treatise of Russia by Dr Giles Fletcher.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]