Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : in foure partes : this first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent : declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... with briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same
Purchas his pilgrimage is a 1613 geography and religion compendium of Asia, Africa and America, printed by William Stansby in London for the bookseller Henry Fetherstone, aimed at English readers of travel accounts. The pictures are repeated woodcut ornaments: a bearded face in a feathered headdress set within scrolling foliage and volutes, plus a horizontal frieze of beasts and heraldic shields, offering designers a model for symmetrical, dense Renaissance-style ornament and decorative borders.
