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Auction archive: Lot number 77

PURCHAS, Samuel (c.1575-1626) - Purchas His Pilgrimes…[with] Purchas his Pilgrimage.

Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$97,449 - US$129,933
Price realised:
£42,000
ca. US$68,214
Auction archive: Lot number 77

PURCHAS, Samuel (c.1575-1626) - Purchas His Pilgrimes…[with] Purchas his Pilgrimage.

Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$97,449 - US$129,933
Price realised:
£42,000
ca. US$68,214
Beschreibung:

Purchas His Pilgrimes…[with] Purchas his Pilgrimage.
London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1624-26. Together 5 volumes, the complete 4 parts, and the supplemental Pilgrimage comprising the fifth volume. Folio (325 x 205 mm). Engraved additional title dated 1624 (vol. I), 88 engraved maps, comprising 7 double-page and folding, 81 half-page engraved maps in the text. Numerous woodcut and a few engraved text illustrations and decorative woodcut initials. Late eighteenth century diced calf, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine panels, later marbled endpapers, mottled edges. Condition : Vol I, engraved title to volume I probably supplied, loose duplicate leaf laid-in at p.703, pp.122-127r affected by yellow dye bled into the fore-edge, p.144 incorrectly paginated to read 138; map of India with some glue stains where tipped-in, few rust spots, colophon repaired at head (vol. I); Vol II p.1245 affected by map opposite fading to page, cc-cc4 of index expertly repaired at head (vol. II); vol III pp.193-200, pp.231-244v, pp.815-870v, pp.911-1010, with tiny gouges at fore-edge (vol. III),; vol IV folding map of Virginia at p.1682 cropped to plate edge, and partly in facsimile; light dampstains at head pp.1175-1186, fore-edge repaired on 8 rear leaves of the table; vol V light dampstains at upper corner to nearly one third of the text, margins of some leaves slightly defective affecting a few letters of marginal notes or map edges, text lightly faded in some areas, occasional slight browning or thumbsoiling; covers slightly bowed (vol. IV), joints expertly restored, some edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Provenance : 'Stamford…1700' (inscription partly effaced to title of vol. V); 'Williams Bookseller Cheltenham Library' (bookseller's label to front pastedowns of vols I, III, IV) Acquisition :purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd. (1994), $26,800. first edition. This copy probably one of thirty or more copies presented to the dedicatees, as indicated by the alterations of various headlines. The alterations on two leaves of Volume I (pp.703-6) and on the heading on p.704 where the headline 'Hollanders lying devices, to disgrace the English' was changed to 'Amboyna taken by the Dutch. Ingratitude. Boasting'. The alterations had occured only on these copies for the dedicatees who had been comprised of members of pro- and anti- Dutch parties. Purchas and his publisher, William Stansby, were only able to address a few of the offensive headlines that caused concern. Pilgrimes. . was written as a continuation of Hakluyt's work, The Principle Navigations . Hakluyt bequeathed a large collection of manuscripts which eventually came into the hands of Purchas in about 1620. Purchas followed a general guide of Hakluyt although reformed the work with his new accounts. The collection of accounts describes the experiences of Cortes and Pizarro, Drake and Cavendish; the Portugese voyages in the East Indies, the Jesuit voyages to China and Japan and East India Company Voyages, amongst others. Purchas' only original contributions came in the form of various editorials scattered through the volumes on, among other things, Solomon's voyage to Ophir, Pope Alexander's bulls of donation of 1493, the 'iniquitie' of papal power, the history of Europe, and 'Virginia's Verger', an ideological justification for English settlement in Virginia in the wake of the Powhatan uprising of 1622 ( Pilgrimes, IV, 1809-26). He was also a relentess promoter of what he perceived as the massive commerical potential in establishing trade routes with the Far East. The fourth volume includes extended material on English voyages, the colonization of North America and the Virginia map. Though his editorial methods are often compared unfavorably with Hakluyt's, his work was probably more influential and more widely read. The work took more than three years to print, and was the largest book published on an English press up to that time. European Americana 625/173; Borba de Moraes II, pp. 692-93; Church 401A; Hill 1403

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Purchas His Pilgrimes…[with] Purchas his Pilgrimage.
London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1624-26. Together 5 volumes, the complete 4 parts, and the supplemental Pilgrimage comprising the fifth volume. Folio (325 x 205 mm). Engraved additional title dated 1624 (vol. I), 88 engraved maps, comprising 7 double-page and folding, 81 half-page engraved maps in the text. Numerous woodcut and a few engraved text illustrations and decorative woodcut initials. Late eighteenth century diced calf, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine panels, later marbled endpapers, mottled edges. Condition : Vol I, engraved title to volume I probably supplied, loose duplicate leaf laid-in at p.703, pp.122-127r affected by yellow dye bled into the fore-edge, p.144 incorrectly paginated to read 138; map of India with some glue stains where tipped-in, few rust spots, colophon repaired at head (vol. I); Vol II p.1245 affected by map opposite fading to page, cc-cc4 of index expertly repaired at head (vol. II); vol III pp.193-200, pp.231-244v, pp.815-870v, pp.911-1010, with tiny gouges at fore-edge (vol. III),; vol IV folding map of Virginia at p.1682 cropped to plate edge, and partly in facsimile; light dampstains at head pp.1175-1186, fore-edge repaired on 8 rear leaves of the table; vol V light dampstains at upper corner to nearly one third of the text, margins of some leaves slightly defective affecting a few letters of marginal notes or map edges, text lightly faded in some areas, occasional slight browning or thumbsoiling; covers slightly bowed (vol. IV), joints expertly restored, some edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Provenance : 'Stamford…1700' (inscription partly effaced to title of vol. V); 'Williams Bookseller Cheltenham Library' (bookseller's label to front pastedowns of vols I, III, IV) Acquisition :purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd. (1994), $26,800. first edition. This copy probably one of thirty or more copies presented to the dedicatees, as indicated by the alterations of various headlines. The alterations on two leaves of Volume I (pp.703-6) and on the heading on p.704 where the headline 'Hollanders lying devices, to disgrace the English' was changed to 'Amboyna taken by the Dutch. Ingratitude. Boasting'. The alterations had occured only on these copies for the dedicatees who had been comprised of members of pro- and anti- Dutch parties. Purchas and his publisher, William Stansby, were only able to address a few of the offensive headlines that caused concern. Pilgrimes. . was written as a continuation of Hakluyt's work, The Principle Navigations . Hakluyt bequeathed a large collection of manuscripts which eventually came into the hands of Purchas in about 1620. Purchas followed a general guide of Hakluyt although reformed the work with his new accounts. The collection of accounts describes the experiences of Cortes and Pizarro, Drake and Cavendish; the Portugese voyages in the East Indies, the Jesuit voyages to China and Japan and East India Company Voyages, amongst others. Purchas' only original contributions came in the form of various editorials scattered through the volumes on, among other things, Solomon's voyage to Ophir, Pope Alexander's bulls of donation of 1493, the 'iniquitie' of papal power, the history of Europe, and 'Virginia's Verger', an ideological justification for English settlement in Virginia in the wake of the Powhatan uprising of 1622 ( Pilgrimes, IV, 1809-26). He was also a relentess promoter of what he perceived as the massive commerical potential in establishing trade routes with the Far East. The fourth volume includes extended material on English voyages, the colonization of North America and the Virginia map. Though his editorial methods are often compared unfavorably with Hakluyt's, his work was probably more influential and more widely read. The work took more than three years to print, and was the largest book published on an English press up to that time. European Americana 625/173; Borba de Moraes II, pp. 692-93; Church 401A; Hill 1403

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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