1905-7 Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Glasgow 1st Edition Complete

Description: Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others by Samuel Purchas, B.D., Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons. Publishers to the University. 1905-7. First Edition, Complete Set. Uniform navy cloth binding measuring 9 x 6”, 8vos. ALL volumes are ex-library (Richmond Public Library, Richmond VA) BUT VOLUME XIX. In fair condition. Navy cloth boards are normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines bumped; head of Vol. XIX exhibits a small chip (binding exposed). Ex-library white hand-writing found on all tails of spines (but Vol. XIX). Top edges gilt; fore-edges deckled. Black ink ex-library stamps (dulled) found on all gilt top edges (but Vol. XIX). Some top & fore edges throughout text-blocks uncut. Ex-library pencil marginalia, blind/ink stamps & card catalogues/envelopes found on front and rear paste-downs, title pages, and copyright pages (but Vol. XIX). Rear gutter of Vol. XIX beginning to split mid-way, binding mesh exposed. Light toning throughout text-blocks; mostly at edges of leaves. Some light instances of finger-soiling. Bindings intact. Fold-outs intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Samuel Purchas (c. 1577 – 1626) was an English Anglican cleric who published several volumes of reports by travelers to foreign countries. Purchas was born at Thaxted, Essex, son of a yeoman. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1600. In 1604 James I presented him to the vicarage of St. Laurence and All Saints, in Eastwood, Essex. Eastwood is two miles from Leigh-on-Sea, which was then a prosperous shipping centre and a congregational place of seafaring men. Purchas himself never travelled "200 miles from Thaxted in Essex where I was borne." Instead, he recorded personal narratives shared with him by sailors who returned to England from their voyages. He added these accounts to a vast compilation of unsorted manuscripts that were left to him by Richard Hakluyt, which were later published as Purchas's third – and final – book. Richard Hakluyt (1553 – 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589–1600). In 1614, Purchas became chaplain to Archbishop George Abbot and rector of St Martin, Ludgate, London. He held a Bachelor of Divinity degree, and with this degree was admitted at Oxford University in 1615. In 1614 he published Purchas His Pilgrimage: or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present. In this work, intended as an overview of the diversity of God's creation from an Anglican world-view, he presented several abbreviated travel stories he would later publish in full. The book achieved immediate popularity and went through four editions between 1613 and 1626, the year of Purchas's death. None of his works was reprinted till the Glasgow reissue of the Pilgrimes in 1905–1907. FORN-SHELF-0511-BB-2407-HK1940

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