Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent : collected and published by Richard Hakluyt ... in the year 1582 / edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Winter Jones ...

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; [no. 7].
Main Author: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Corporate Author: Great Britain
Other Authors: Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881
Fabyan, Robert, -1513
Thorne, Robert, -1527
Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485-1528
Ribault, 1520 (ca.)-1565
Hackett, Thomas, -1697
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Undetermined
Published: London : Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1850.
Series:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; [no. 7].
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Physical Description:cxi, 171, 6 pages : 3 folded facsimiles (including 2 maps) ; 22 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The names of certaine late writers of geographie, with the yeere wherein they wrote
  • The names of certaine late trauaylers, both by sea and by land ...
  • A verie late and great probabilitie of a passage to the north-west part of America ...
  • To the right worshipfull ... gentleman Master Philip Sydney ...
  • ...
  • Letters patentes of King Henrie the Seuenth, graunted vnto Iohn Gabote and his three sonnes ... [Latin and English]
  • A note of Sebastian Gabotes voyage of discouerie, taken out of an old chronicle, written by Robert Fabian ...
  • A declaration of the Indies and landes discouered and subdued vnto the emperour and the king of Portugale; and also of other partes of the Indies ... to be discouered, which ... Master Robert Thorne ... exhorted King Henrie the Eight to taken in hande
  • The booke made by ... Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 ...
  • ...The relation of John Verarzanus ... of the lande by him discouered ... written in Diepe ... 1524 [Tr. from Ramusio's "Navigationi." v. 3]
  • The discouerie of the iles of Frisland, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria, made by M. Nicolas Zeno, knight, and M. Antonio his brother
  • The true and last discouerie of Florida, made by Captain John Ribault in the yeere 1562 ... translated into Englishe by one Thomas Hackit
  • Notes in writing ... that were giuen by a gentleman, anno 1580, to M. Arthure Pette and to M. Charles Jackman, sent by ... the Mascouie companie for the discouerie of the northeast strayte ...
  • Notes framed by a gentleman heretofore to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not ...
  • The names of certaine commodities growing in part of America ... frō Florida northward, gathered out of ... Verarzanus, Thorne [etc.]
  • Appendix: The will of Richard Hakluyt. Bibl. Bodl. m. Arch. Seid. B. 8. (Chiefe places where soadry sorte of species do growe in the East Indies, gathered out of sundry ... authours, by R. Hakluyt; Notes of certayne comodities in good request in the East Indies, the Malucoes, and China ... by Richard Hakluyt)