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  Discourse of Western Planting
  Date of publication:
  1584
  

  Author(s):

  Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
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  Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616. - Discourse of Western Planting. - 1st e.d 1584
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  The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empire of Guiana with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the spanyards call El Dorado) and the prouinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595. by Sir W. Ralegh Knight, captaine of her Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden of the Sannerries [sic], and her Highnesse Lieutenant generall of the countie of Cornewall.
  Date of publication:
  1596
  

  Author(s):

  Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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  "An abstract taken out of certaine Spanyardes letters concerning Guiana and the countries lying upon the great river Orenoque .." taken at sea by Captain George Popham, p. [102]-end. The second edition published this year ...
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  A new iuterlude [sic] and a mery of the nature of the .iiii. element declarynge many proper poynt of phylosophy naturall, and of dyuers straunge landys and of dyuers straunge effects [and] causis, whiche interlude yf ye hole matter be playd wyl conteyne the space of an hour and a halfe, but yf le lyst ye may leue out muche of the sad mater as the messengers p[ar]te, and some of experyens p[ar]te [and] yet the matter wyl depend conuenyently, and than it wyll not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length.
  Date of publication:
  1520
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, d. 1536.
  Description:
  By John Rastell. Caption title. Imprint from STC. Contains music. In verse. Signatures: A-C E. Imperfect; lacks quire D and all after quire E. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A treatyse of the newe India with other new founde landes and islandes, aswell eastwarde as westwarde, as they are knowen and found in these oure dayes, after the description of Sebastian Munster in his boke of universall cosmographie: wherin the diligent reader may see the good successe and rewarde of noble and honeste enterpryses, by the which not only worldly ryches are obtayned, but also God is glorified, [and] the Christian faythe enlarged. Translated out of Latin into Englishe. By Rycharde Eden.
  Date of publication:
  1553
  

  Author(s):

  Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. ; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.
  Description:
  A translation, by Rycharde Eden, of selections from: Münster, Sebastian. Cosmographia. Imprint from colophon. Printer's name and publication date from STC. Signatures: 2a A-L M⁶. Imperfect; leaf E2 torn, affecting text; ...
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  The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.
  Date of publication:
  1568
  

  Author(s):

  Thevet, André, 1502-1590. ; Hacket, Thomas, fl. 1560-1590.
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  A translation of: Thevet, André. Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Hacket. Publication date from colophon. Running title reads: The newe founde world ...
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  A briefe description of the portes, creekes, bayes, and hauens, of the Weast India: translated out of the Castlin tongue by I.F. The originall whereof was directed to the mightie Prince Don Charles, King of Castile, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1578
  

  Author(s):

  Enciso, Martin Fernández de, d. 1525. ; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.
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  Translation of a part of: Enciso, Martin Fernández de. Suma de geographia que trata de todas las particlas & provinces del mundo: en especial de las Indias. Translator's dedication signed: John Frampton. The last leaf is ...
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  A shorte and briefe narration of the two nauigations and discoueries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce: first translated out of French into Italian, by that famous learned man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius, and now turned into English by Iohn Florio; worthy the reading of all venturers, trauellers, and discouerers
  Date of publication:
  1580
  

  Author(s):

  Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557. ; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.
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  Translation of the Italian translation by Giovanni Baptista Ramusio of the accounts of Jacques Cartier's first two voyages to Canada, published in his "Delle navigationi e viaggi", Venice, 1556. Cartier's authorship of the ...
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  The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
  Date of publication:
  1555
  

  Author(s):

  Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526. ; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.
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  A translation of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo", with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden. Colophon reads: Imprynted at London in Lumbard streete at the signe of the Cradle by [i.e. for] Edwarde Sutton. .. ...
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  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.
  Date of publication:
  1577
  

  Author(s):

  Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526. ; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576. ; Willes, Richard, fl. 1558-1573.
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  A translation, with some omissions, of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden and Willes. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. With six final ...
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  Discourse of Western Planting / by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde
  Date of publication:
  1584
  

  Author(s):

  Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
  Description:
  Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616. - Discourse of Western Planting. - 1st e.d 1584
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