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 10 includes voyages to India, the East Indies and Japan, as well as the notes of the famous traveller Thomas Coryat 'on his last and fatal voyage'.

Part X: 1. Briefe collections of voyages, chiefly of Spaniards and Portugals; 2. The summe of a letter of Nicholas Trigautius, touching his voyage to India; 3. Letter touching Japon; 4. Extracts of Master Caesar Frederike his eighteene yeeres Indian observations; 5. Gasparo Balbi his voyage to Pegu; 6. The voyage of Master Ralph Fitch to Ormus, and so to Goa; 7. Indian observations; 8. John Huighen van Linschoten his voyage to Goa; 9. Relation of Ormuz; 10. Travels of Sir Robert Sherley; 11. The epitaphs on the tombe of Jacob Almansor the Saracenicall Emperour; 12. Master Thomas Coryates travels; 13. Relations of the travels of W. Lithgow; 14. Late intelligence out of Turkie; 15. Journall of Arnold Brown his Indian voyage; 16. The Dutch late proceedings at Amboyna; 17. A true description of the bay Todos los Santos in Brasil.