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)

9781108080026, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

574 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.83 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 17 concentrates on South America, with a voyage through the Straits of Magellan, the conquest of Peru, and historical material on the Incas.

4. The travels of Hulderike Schnirdel
5. Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins
6. Master John Ellis on Hawkins' voyage through the Straits of Magellan
7. Relation of an Englishman which had beene thirteene years captive to the Spaniards in Peru
8. Relation of Alexandro Ursino concerning the coast of Terra Firma
9. Notes of the West Indies
10. Relation of the new discoverie in the south seas
11. The historie of Lopez Vaz, a Portugall
12. Briefe extracts of Jerom Benzos three bookes of the new world
13. The first part of the Commentaries Royall by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega
14. The suppliment of the historie of the Incas
15. Briefe notes of Francis Pizarro
16. The conquest of Peru and Cusco
17. Relations of occurrents in the conquest of Peru
Part VIII: 1. True relation of Alvaro Nunez
2. Ferdinando de Soto his voyage to Florida.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]