The ‘Christianographie’ was first published in 1635, this is an example as stated on the title of ‘The second Edition, inlarged’. This work is rarely found complete usually lacking the maps. The ‘Dictionary of National Biography’ describes Ephraim Pagitt (1574-1647) as a ‘heresiographer’. He was born in Lamport in 1574 and was described as a linguist being capable of writing in fifteen or sixteen languages. Indeed the DNB records that at the age of eleven he translated from Latin 28 Sermons. He wrote three published works. The ‘Christianographie’ was a survey of the spread of Protestantism and a particular attack on the Catholic Church. The most important part of the text is considered to be the reference to the conversion of the native American Indians in the New World with a notes on the settlement of the continent. ‘In America there be diverse Plantations of the English, Dutch and French, and there are now more English in Virginia onely, then were left of the Natives in New-Spaine.’ The work is illustrated with five maps although three of them are partially printed from masked plates. The most important is the western American portion of a world map dated by Shirley to c.1600. Those of Asia and Africa are printed from the same as yet unidentified plate. Provenance: Boies Penrose Library with bookplate; Sotheby’s sale 9 November 1971 lot 187; Charles Traylen Catalogue 6 1981; private English collection. Alden 635/96; ESTC S113918; Shirley 224; STC 19111; Worms ‘History of Cartography III.2 p. 1719.