TY - BOOK ID - 85468995 TI - Hakluytus Posthumus = : or, Purchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by englishmen and others. AU - Purchas, Samuel AU - Hakluyt, Richard PY - 2014 SN - 131605067X 1108080006 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Acosta, José de, KW - Travel KW - New Spain KW - Mexico KW - West Indies KW - Description and travel KW - De Acosta, José, KW - Acosta, Josephus, KW - Acosta, Joseph de, KW - Costa, Iosephus à, KW - Costa, Josephus à, KW - Acosta, Iosephus, KW - Acosta, Ioseph de, KW - A Costa, Iosephus, KW - A Costa, Josephus, KW - Hochgelehrter und dess Landes wolerfahrner Mann, KW - Antilles KW - Caribbean Islands KW - Islands of the Caribbean KW - Islands of the Atlantic UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468995 AB - 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 15 focuses on the West Indies, Mexico, and 'New Spain', and especially on the narratives of José de Acosta. ER -