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Engraved title page of Samuel Purchas's four-volume book ''Purchas his Pilgrimes''

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Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes
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Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes
Description
Engraved title page of Samuel Purchas's four-volume book Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625). Some copies of the title page, as this one, bear the date 1624.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

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