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1. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

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Creator:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:
[1598]
Physical Description:
[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Das Buch des Ritters Herr Hannsen von Montevilla ...

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[18 July 1481]
Physical Description:
92 unnumbered leaves (the last blank, wanting) : 121 illustrations ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

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Creator:
Polo, Marco, 1254–1323?
Date:
1555
Physical Description:
[112] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux cotes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne et isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandée par m. de Gennes / Faite par le sieur Froger ingenieur volontaire sure le vaisseau le Faucon Anglois. Enrichie de grand nombre de figures dessinées sur les lieux.

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Creator:
Froger, François, b. 1676
Date:
M.DC.XCIX [1699]
Physical Description:
[14], 227, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates ([7] folded) : ill. (maps, plans) ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Il viaggio fatto da gli Spagniuoli a torno a'l mondo : Con gratia per Anni. XIIII.

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Creator:
Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Date:
MDXXXVI [1536]
Physical Description:
[52] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

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Creator:
Galvão, António, -1557
Date:
1601
Physical Description:
[12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:
3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
Anno domini. M.CCCC.lxxxiij. [1483]
Physical Description:
[176] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:
1589
Physical Description:
[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
1488
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

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Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
[1481 or 1482]
Physical Description:
[206] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

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Creator:
Polo, Marco, 1254–1323?
Date:
[1555]
Physical Description:
[112] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine : fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781 : dans lequel on traite des mœurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses : suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays / par M. Sonnerat ...

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Creator:
Sonnerat, Pierre, 1748–1814
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Date:
anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:
3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:
[6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The true travels, adventvres, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593 to 1629 : his accidents and sea-fights in the Straights, his service and strategems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia ... : together with a continuation of his Generall history of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624, to this present 1629, as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies / all written by actuall authors, whose names you shall finde along the history.

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Creator:
Smith, John, 1580–1631
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[12], 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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

20. Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

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Creator:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Date:
[1511]
Physical Description:
[8], LXII leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Secondo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio Battista Ramusio, et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto ; nel quale si contengono l'historia delle cose de Tartari, & diuersi fatti de' loro imperatori, descritta da M. Marco Polo gentilhuomo venetiano, & da Hayton Armeno : varie descrittioni di diversi auttori, dell' Indie Orientali, della Tartaria, della Persia, Armenia, Mengrelia, Zorzania, & altre prouincie : nelle quali si raccontano molte imprese d'Vssuncassan, d'Ismael Soffi, del Soldano di Babilonia, di diuersi imperatori Ottomani, & particolarmente de Selim contro Tomombei, vltimo Soldano de Mamalucchi, & d'altri principi : et il viaggio della Tana ; con la descrittione de' nomi de' popoli, città, fiumi, & porti d'intorno al Mar Maggiore, come si nominauano al tempo dell'Imperator Adriano, & molte altre narrationi, cosi dello stato de Moscouiti, Sciti, & Circassi, come d'altre genti barbare a gli antichi incognite, et il naufragio di M. Pietro Quirino gentilhuomo venetiano, portato per fortuna settanta gradi sotto la Tramontana ; con l'indice diligentemente ordinato, delle cose piu notabili.

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description:
5, [1], 9-30, 17, 20-22, 25-36, 39-42, 45-65, 58-248 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, & con molti & vaghi discorsi, da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato & illustrato ; nel quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso insino à Calicut, & all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo ; con la relatione dell'isola Giapan, scoperta nella parte del settentrione ; et alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia, estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros Portoghese ; con tre tavole di geographia in disegno, che hanno le marine, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra, secondo gli scrittori che hanno descritto li detti viaggi ; con due indici ...

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXIII [1563]
Physical Description:
[4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast / collected from the best authorities by William Roberts ; illustrated by a general map, and some particular plans, together with a geographical description of that country, by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Roberts, William, active 1763
Date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 102 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Picturing the pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor.

Picturing the pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, James, 1963–
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

25. Hakluyt's promise : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America / Peter C. Mancall.

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Creator:
Mancall, Peter C
Date:
c2007
Physical Description:
378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library