Purchas his pilgrimage : or Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation unto this present. In foure parts. This first containeth a theologicall and geographical historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries ...
A 1614 London folio by Samuel Purchas, printed by William Stansby for bookseller Henry Fetherstone, compiling accounts of world religions, geography and voyages in Asia, Africa and America for a learned English readership. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, a large T and an O set in ornate frames, with scrolling foliage, flowers, grotesque masks and fleshy acanthus leaves that a designer could adapt for display lettering and borders.
