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SECOND HAND BOOKS
The Haklyut Society
Second Series No. 185 and No. 186
The Purchas Handbook: Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas 1577-1626 Volume I and II
Edited by L.E. Pennington.
The Purchas Handbook follows the model of the Society’s earlier Hakluyt Handbook in providing a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as collector, editor, and author of travel literature. The Handbook attempts to evaluate his significance for present-day students of history, geography, anthropology, theology, literature, linguistics, bibliography and natural history. While the emphasis is on Purchas’s major work, Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625), his earlier works are also considered.
Hardcover, 811pp total, 1997.
Condition: Good, original dust jackets included.
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