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

Samuel Purchas

doi:10.1017/CBO9781316050590

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 11 focuses on journeys into central Asia by Marco Polo and the less well-known Franciscan missionary William of Rubruck, and also contains an Arabic life of Tamerlane.

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The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the first Booke of the second part of Purchas his Pilgrims
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Dedication
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CHAP. I - The Journall of Friar William de Rubruquis, a Frenchman, of the Order of the Minorite Friars, unto the East parts of the World, Anno Dom. 1253. H
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CHAP. II - Tartarian and Northerne Relations written in Latin by the famous Friar Roger Bacon. H
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CHAP. III - Relations touching the Tartars, taken out of the Historie of R. Wendover, and Mat. Paris: with certaine Epistles of the same subject
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CHAP. IIII - The first booke of Marcus Paulus Venetus, or of Master Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice, his Voyages
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CHAP. V - The Historie of Ayton, or Anthonie the Armenian, of Asia, and specially touching the Tartars. H.P
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CHAP. VI - Travels and Memorials of Sir John Mandevile
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CHAP. VII - The Voyage of Nicolo di Conti a Venetian, to the Indies, Mangi, Cambalu and Quinsai, with some observations of those places
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CHAP. VIII - Extracts of Alhacen his Arabike Historie of Tamerlan, touching his Martiall travels, done into French by Jean du Bee, Abbat of Mortimer
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CHAP. XI - The relation of Galeotto Perera, a Gentleman of good credit, that lay prisoner in China
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-xvi

ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xvii-xviii

The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the first Booke of the second part of Purchas his Pilgrims
pp xix-xx

Dedication
pp 1-4

CHAP. I - The Journall of Friar William de Rubruquis, a Frenchman, of the Order of the Minorite Friars, unto the East parts of the World, Anno Dom. 1253. H
pp 5-149

CHAP. II - Tartarian and Northerne Relations written in Latin by the famous Friar Roger Bacon. H
pp 150-172

CHAP. III - Relations touching the Tartars, taken out of the Historie of R. Wendover, and Mat. Paris: with certaine Epistles of the same subject
pp 173-188

CHAP. IIII - The first booke of Marcus Paulus Venetus, or of Master Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice, his Voyages
pp 188-309

CHAP. V - The Historie of Ayton, or Anthonie the Armenian, of Asia, and specially touching the Tartars. H.P
pp 309-364

CHAP. VI - Travels and Memorials of Sir John Mandevile
pp 365-394

CHAP. VII - The Voyage of Nicolo di Conti a Venetian, to the Indies, Mangi, Cambalu and Quinsai, with some observations of those places
pp 394-400

CHAP. VIII - Extracts of Alhacen his Arabike Historie of Tamerlan, touching his Martiall travels, done into French by Jean du Bee, Abbat of Mortimer
pp 401-468

CHAP. IX
pp 469-474

CHAP. X
pp 474-565

CHAP. XI - The relation of Galeotto Perera, a Gentleman of good credit, that lay prisoner in China
pp 566-594

The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the second Booke of the Second part of Purchas his Pilgrims

CHAP. I
pp 595-650

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