Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes 20 Volume Set Series

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 13 includes voyages to the north-east and Siberia, the travels of Henry Hudson, a history of Iceland, and a journey to the Crimea.

Part III: 2. Northern discoveries; 3. Barents' first navigation; 4. Barents' second navigation; 5. De Veer's account of the north-eastern voyage to China; 6. Greeland; 7. Siberia; 8. Arctic voyages; 9. Voyages to Siberia; 10. Voyages to Siberia (cont.); 11. Voyages to Siberia (cont.); 12. Voyages to Siberia (cont.); 13. Voyages to Spitzbergen; 14. Voyages of Henry Hudson; 15. Voyages of Henry Hudson (cont.); 16. Voyages of Henry Hudson (cont.); 17. Voyages of Henry Hudson (cont.); 18. The voyages of the Zen brothers; 19. Commerce between England and Normandy; 20. Barkley's voyages; 21. Journey to Crim Tartary; 22. Voyages to Iceland; 23. History of Iceland.