Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others [Paperback]

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 19057 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 19057 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. Volume 15 focuses on the West Indies, Mexico, and 'New Spain', and especially on the narratives of Jos? de Acosta.This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 19057 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. Volume 15 focuses on the West Indies, Mexico, and 'New Spain', and especially on the narratives of Jos? de Acosta.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 19035, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 19057. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (15771626) 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 Jos? de Acosta.Part V: 2. Observations of Joseph Acosta; 3. The generall historie of the Indies; 4. Mexican antiquities of Joseph Acosta; 5. Of the ancient superstitions of the Mexicans and Indians of America; 6. Civil customes and arts of the Indians; 7. The history of the Mexican nation; 8. Conquest of Mexico and New Spaine; 9. Things most remarkeable observed by the Spaniards at their first coming.