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1.
The historie of the West-Indies containing the actes and aduentures of the Spaniards which haue conquered and peopled those countries : inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments and warres of the Indians
Author
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526
Published
London : Printed for A. Hebb and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in Pauls Church-yard, [1625?]
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A relation of the second voyage to Guiana. Perfourmed and written in the yeare 1596. By Lawrence Kemys, Gent
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Kemys, Lawrence, d. 1618
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Imprinted at London : By Thomas Dawson, dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vintree, and are to be solde, 1596.
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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
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Rastell, John, d. 1536
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[London : J. Rastell, 1520?]
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Interesting account of the early voyages, made by the Portuguese, Spaniards, &c. To Affrica, [sic] East and West-Indies. The discovery of numerous islands; with particulars of the lives of those eminent navigators. Including the life and voyages of Columbus. To which is prefixed the life of that great Circumnavigator Captain Cook, with particulars of his death. Extracted from Dr. Kipps's.
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London : Printed for the proprietors, and sold at Stalker's, Stationers'-Court, Ludgate-Street, M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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An historical & geographical description of the great country & river of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a mapp of the river, and of its provinces, being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his voyage to Guiana
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Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665
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London, : Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-Barre, 1661. [i.e. 1660]
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Voyages of discovery
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Boyle, David, 1958-
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New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> G460 .B79 2011 (LC)
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Misfortunes and shipwrecks in the seas of the Indies, islands, and mainland of the ocean sea, 1513-1548 Book fifty of the General and natural history of the Indies
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Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
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The first four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci reprinted in facsimile and translated from the rare original edition (Florence, 1505-6)
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Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Published
London : B. Quaritch, 1893 (G. Norman and Son)
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A brief discourse of a passage of the North-Pole to Japan, China, & c. : pleaded by three experiments : and answers to all objections that can be urged against a passage that way : with a map of all the discovered lands neerest to the pole
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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691
Published
London : Joseph Moxon, 1674.
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A plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands VVith the manner of their discouerie anno 1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant, and healthfull countrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident
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Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650
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London : Printed by W. Stansby, for W. Welby, 1613.
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A discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Diuels by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Sommers, and Captayne Newport, with diuers others. Set forth for the loue of my country, and also for the good of the plantation in Virginia. Sil. Iourdan
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Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650
Published
London : Printed by Iohn Windet, and are to be sold by Roger Barnes in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-streete, vnder the Diall, 1610.
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The English New England voyages, 1602-1608
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London : Hakluyt Society, 1983.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> G161 H35 II.161 (LC)
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The letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt. Volume I
Author
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
Published
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; [London] : Hakluyt Society, 2010.
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The mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter : imagining the Americas in the late Middle Ages
Author
Willingham, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Moore)
Published
Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> E115.3 .W45X 2016 (LC)
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The mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter : imagining the Americas in the late Middle Ages
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Willingham, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Moore)
Published
Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
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La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo the journal of Fray Martin de Munilla, O.F.M., and other documents relating to the voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan missionary plan (1617-1627). Volume II
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; [London] : Hakluyt Society, 2010.
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An authentick narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay, As performed by Commodore Phillips, and the squadron under his command, with a particular discription of Jackson's Bay, and Lord Howe's Island; also the customs of the natives, and some suitable admonitions to restrain vice, and to prevent others forfeiting their freedom and the happiness of continuing in Old England. By an officer, just arrived in the Borowsdale Transport
Author
Officer, just arrived in the Borrowsdale Transport
Published
London : Printed by R. Bassam, No. 53, St. John's Street; and sold by H.D. Symonds Pater Noster Row; J. Axtell, Royal Exchange; H. Pearce, Bell Yard, Temple Bar; E. Yardley, New Inn Passage, Clare Market; and to be had of all booksellers and newscarriers, [1789]
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An authentic narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay, As performed by Commodore Phillips, and the squadron under his command, with a particular description of Jackson's Bay, and Lord Howe's Island; also the customs of the natives, and some suitable admonitions to restrain vice, and to prevent othes forfeiting their freedom and the happiness of continuing in Old England. Interspersed with curious anecdotes of trading justices. By an officer, just arrived in the Borrowsdale Transport
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Officer, just arrived in the Borrowsdale Transport
Published
London : Printed by R. Bassam, No. 53, St. John's Street; and sold by H.D. Symonds Pater Noster Row; J. Axtell, Royal Exchange, H. Pearce, Bell Yard, Temple Bar; E. Yardley, New Inn Passage, Clare Market; and to be had of all booksellers and newscarriers, [1789]
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Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : in four partes : this first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent : declaring the ancient religions before the flovd, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ..
Author
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Published
London : Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1613.
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The History of the voyages of Christopher Columbus in order to discover America and the West Indies
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Glasgow [Scotland] : Printed for R. Uris, 1761.
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Terra australis incognita, or A new southerne discouerie, containing a fifth part of the vvorld. Lately found out by Ferdinand de Quir, a Spanish captaine. Neuer before published. Translated by W.B.
Author
Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615
Published
London : Printed [By B. Norton and J. Bill] for Iohn Hodgetts, 1617.
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Early English travellers in India : a study in the travel literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods with particular reference to India
Author
Prasāda, Rāmacandra
Published
Delhi : Motilal Banarsi Dass, 1965.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> DS411 P73
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Narrative of the Narváez expedition
Author
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
Published
[Chicago, IL] : Lakeside Press, ©2013.
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LSF- BEINECKE >> Zc10 L14 2013
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24.
Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach
Author
Zir, Alessandro, 1976-
Published
Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
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The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
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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
Author
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
Published
Imprinted at London : By H. Bynneman, dvvelling in Thames streate, neere vnto Baynardes Castell, Anno Domini. 1580.
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Narrative of the proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the provinces of Tierra Firme or Castilla del Oro and of the discovery of the South Sea and the coasts of Peru and Nicaragua
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Andagoya, Pascual de, d. 1548
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London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1865 (T. Richards)
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Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America a new history for a New World
Author
Myers, Kathleen Ann
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
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The Voyages of the ever renowned Sr. Francis Drake into the West Indies viz. his great adventures for gold and silver, with the gaining thereof, and an account of his surprising of Nombre de Dios : a large account of that voyage wherein he encompassed the world : his voyage made with Francis Knollis and others, their taking the towns of St. Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustin : his last voyage (in which he died) being accompanied with several valiant commanders and the manner of his burial
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London : Printed for T. Malthus, 1683.
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A svmmarie and trve discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine : with geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their situations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them
Author
Bigges, Walter, -1586
Published
Bay City, Mich. : W.L. Clements, [1921]
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The book of prophecies edited by Christopher Columbus
Published
Berekeley, : University of California Press, 1997.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> E117 L53X13 1997 (LC)
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The book of prophecies edited by Christopher Columbus
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Berekeley, : University of California Press, 1997.
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Shedding the veil : mapping the European discovery of America and the world
Author
Suárez, Thomas
Published
Singapore ; Teaneck, N.J. : World Scientific, 1992.
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> E121 S87X 1992 (LC)+ Oversize
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34.
The discovery of America by the Hellens
Author
Plutarch
Published
Paris : [Paul Savidis], 1969.
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> E109.G7 P5513 1969 (LC)
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35.
Columbus's letter to Gabriel Sanchez
Author
Columbus, Christopher
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[Boston : Directors of the Old South Work, 1896]
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The first four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
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Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Published
London : Bernard Quartich, 1893.
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The discoveries of the world, from their first original unto the year our Lord 1555
Author
Galvão, António, -1557
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Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2010.
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Select letters of Christopher Columbus with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New world
Author
Columbus, Christopher
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London : Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1847.
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A briefe and true relation of the discouerie of the north part of Virginia being a most pleasant, fruitfull and commodious soile
Author
Brereton, John, 1572-approximately 1619
Published
Londini : Impensis Geor. Bishop, 1602.
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A true relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discouery of the land of Virginia where he discouered 60 miles vp a most excellent riuer; together with a most fertile land. Written by Iames Rosier. a gentleman employed in the voyage
Author
Rosier, James, 1575-1635
Published
Londini : [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Geor. Bishop, 1605.
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A true relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discouery of the land of Virginia where he discouered 60 miles vp a most excellent riuer; together with a most fertile land. Written by Iames Rosier. a gentleman employed in the voyage
Author
Rosier, James, 1575-1635
Published
Londini : [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Geor. Bishop, 1605.
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Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms
Author
Aḥmad ibn Mājid al-Saʻdī, active 1462-1498
Published
[London : Routledge, 2007]
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> VK144 .A3813 2007 (LC)
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43.
The history of America
Author
Robertson, William, 1721-1793
Published
London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and E Balfour and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1796.
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The discovery, settlement, and the present state of Kentucke
Author
Filson, John, ca. 1747-1788
Published
Fairfield, WA : Ye Galleon Press, 2000.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> F454 F55 2000 (LC)
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A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien with an ansvver to the Spanish memorial against it. And arguments to prove that it is the interest of England to joyn with the Scots, and protect it. To which is added, a description of the country, and a particular account of the Scots colony
Author
Philo-Caledon
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Edenburgh : [s.n.], printed in the year. M DC XC IX. [1699]
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Nevves of Sr. VValter Rauleigh With the true description of Guiana: as also a relation of the excellent gouernment, and much hope of the prosperity of the voyage. Sent from a gentleman of his fleet, to a most especiall friend of his in London. From the riuer of Caliana, on the coast of Guiana, Nouemb. 17. 1617
Author
R. M., fl. 1617
Published
London : Printed [by George Eld] for H. G[osson] and are to be sold by I. Wright, at the signe of the Bible without New-gate, 1618.
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Nevves of Sr. VValter Rauleigh With the true description of Guiana: as also a relation of the excellent gouernment, and much hope of the prosperity of the voyage. Sent from a gentleman of his fleet, to a most especiall friend of his in London. From the riuer of Caliana, on the coast of Guiana, Nouemb. 17. 1617
Author
R. M., fl. 1617
Published
London : Printed [by George Eld] for H. G[osson] and are to be sold by I. Wright, at the signe of the Bible without New-gate, 1618.
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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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Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for Thomas VVoodcocke, dwelling in paules Church-yard, at the signe of the blacke beare, 1582.
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Divers voyages touching the discoverie of America and the Ilands adjacent unto the same made first of all by our Englishmen and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons : and certaine notes of advertisements for observations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer understanding of the whole matter
Author
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Published
London : T. Woodcocke, 1582.
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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
Author
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526
Published
Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge, 1577.
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