Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in al ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present
in foure parts : this first contayneth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent : declaring the ancient religions before the Floud, the heathenish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their seuerall opinions, idols, oracles, temples, priests, fasts, feasts, sacrifices, and rites religious : their beginnings, proceedings, alterations, sects, orders, and successions : 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
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Author
Contributions
- Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer. - Contributor
- Featherstone, Henry, d. 1647, bookseller. - Contributor
- English Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
1617 - Printed by William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone ..., London, England
Language
English
Word Count
275,500 words, Guess
Page Count
1,102 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6964395M
- OCLC Control Number1019341157
- Library of Congress Control Number06000409
Classifications
- LCCG159 .P976 1617
Alternate Titles
- Pvrchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the vvorld and the religions observed in al ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present
- Purchas his pilgrimage
- Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in al ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present
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Genres
- Early works to 1800.
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