Purchas His Pilgrimage (1613 Purchas), book

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Purchas His Pilgrimage (1613) is a book by Samuel Purchas.

Abstract

"Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex."

Purchas was one of the first authors to report the existence of the Book of Enoch in Ethiopia, based on the work of Dominican Luis de Urreta.

Editions

Published in London, England: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, 1613.

Table of contents

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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