Purchas His Pilgrimage Or Relations of the World and the Religions Obserued in All Ages and Places Discouered, From the Creation Unto This Present : Contayning a Theologicall and Geographicall Historie of Asia, Africa, and America

Samuel Purchas; William Methold; Jerome Horsey

William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1626

Folio. Rebound in modern black leather. Gilt spine.  5 raised bands and ornamentation. 4th ed. [42], 1047, [37]. Contains engraving of Turkish woman  on p. 305. Lacking all maps and pages which the maps were printed on.  Lacking: p. 15-16, 39-40, 43-44, 75-76, 91-92, 171-172, 177-178, 289-290, 325-326, 385-386, 407-408, 437-438, 487-488, 583-584, 585-586, 587-588, 605-606, 615-616, 619-620, 629-630, 667-668, 681-682, 693-694, 715-716, 737-738, 763-764.  These pages have been supplied in facsimile. Engravings.

Seen as a continuation of Hakluyt's Voyages, Purchas his Pilgrimage was an influential work promoting English exploration and commercial development of the New World. Purchas acquired Hakluyt's manuscripts after his death and used the material, as well has his own research to publish Pilgrimes. He later wrote Pilgrimage (often considered to be vol. 5 of his work), largely through his own efforts.  Purchas's account of Kubla Khan was one of the sources of inspiration for the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Of particular interest is Purchas' account of Virginia. 

References: STC 20508; Sabin 66682. Church 401A; Hill 1403.