[Hakluytus posthumus] , Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes., Map of China., New France., and Purchas his pilgrimes in five bookes.
Description:
Accompanied by ALS ([4] p.) to Charles Deane, Cambridge, from Henry Stevens, dated London, Jan. 23, 1875. Uncancelled states of v. 1 G3 and 4M4,5. Vol. 1: [1] Description of East India (27.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 33.7 x 38.5 cm) bound in following p. 578; vol. 3: [1] The map of China (27.5 x 34.3 cm, on sheet 33.8 x 37.2 cm) bound in following p. 400; [2] The north part of America (27.4 x 33.3 cm, on sheet 34 x 37.5 cm) bound in following p. 852; vol. 4: [1] Virginia (31.5 x 39.6 cm, on sheet 33.9 x 40 cm, folded to 33.7 x 18.5 cm) bound in following p. 1690; [2] New France (24.9 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 34 x 37.7 cm) bound in following p. 1872.
Publisher:
Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Geography--Early works to 1800, Religions--Early works to 1800, and Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
Engraved title page: Dialogvs de systemate mvndi autore Galilæ Galilei, lyncæ, serenissimo Ferdinando II, Hetrvr. magno duci dicatus. Aug. Treboc., impensis Bonav. et Abr. Elzevir, Leydens, 1635.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. M.D.XCVII., Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley] -- [Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin] -- To the courteous and well-willing Readers. -- First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants. -- Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc. -- Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushroms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc. -- Index latinvs ... stirpivm. -- Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinæ, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur. -- Nominvm et opinionvm harmonia et consensus. -- Table of the English names. -- Supplement or Appendix vnot the generall Table, and to the Table of English names : gathered. -- Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants., Errors in paging., Signatures: A⁴, B⁶, A⁸-Vvv⁸, Xxx¹⁰; Aaaa-Tttt⁸, Vvvv⁶; Aaaaa-Iiiii⁴, last verso blank., and Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.