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Subject Terms America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.

1. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

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Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

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Creator:: Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:: 1590[-1630]
Physical Description:: 14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the New World. Or, America islands and continent : and by what people those regions are now inhabited. And what places are there desolate and without inhabitants. And the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649 / faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the county of Surrey Esq.

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Creator:: Gardyner, George
Date:: 1651
Physical Description:: [16], 187, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Saggio sulla nautica antica de' Veneziani : con una illustrazione d'alcune carte idrografiche antiche della Biblioteca di S. Marco, che dimostrano l'isole Antille prima della scoperta di Cristoforo Colombo / di Vincenzio Formaleoni.

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Creator:: Formaleoni, V. A. (Vincenzio Antonio), 1752–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: [10], 60, 64 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

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Creator:: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:: 1577
Physical Description:: [10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts