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• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA
• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (Boston: T. E. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by Samuel Kettell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (Boston: T. E. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by Samuel Kettell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective (1992), by Arnold K. Garr (HTML at BYU)
• Columbus in the Capitol (Quincentenary edition; Washington: GPO, 1992), ed. by Ann Baldessarini Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christopher Columbus (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1941), by Daniel Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christopher Columbus, by Mildred Stapley Byne (Gutenberg text)
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
• A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA
• The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time, by Edward Everett Hale
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral, by Elbridge S. Brooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Unpublished Orations, by John Fiske (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• De Insulis Inuentis (illustrated Latin edition, ca. 1493), by Christopher Columbus, trans. by Leandro di Cosco (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez, Written on Board the Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage (translations into Latin and English; Chicago: W. H. Lowdermilk Co., 1893), by Christopher Columbus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America: A Facsimile of the Pictorial Edition, With a New and Literal Translation, and Complete Reprint of the Oldest Four Editions in Latin (New York: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the Lenox Library, 1892), by Christopher Columbus, contrib. by Wilberforce Eames (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus: A Comedy in Verse (Berkeley, CA: Gillick Press, c1950), by Lope de Vega, trans. by Frieda Fligelman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia del Nuevo-Mundo (in Spanish; Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, 1793), by Juan Bautista Muñoz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the New World, by Don Juan Baptista Munoz: Translated From the Spanish, With Notes by the Translator, an Engraved Portrait of Columbus, and a Map of Espanola (only volume published; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797), by Juan Bautista Muñoz
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Historia de las Indias (5 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: M. Ginesta, 1875-1876), by Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Tomo I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo III: page images at HathiTrust
  • Tomo IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo V: multiple formats at archive.org

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (full exhibition catalog; Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), ed. by John R. Hébert (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Ongoing Voyage, 1492-1992: The Library of Congress Quincentenary Exhibition (exhibition companion pictorial publication, in English and Spanish; Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), ed. by John R. Hébert (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Ongoing Voyage, 1492-1992: The Library of Congress Quincentenary Exhibition. (exbibition brochure, in Spanish and English; 1992), by Library of Congress
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Web adaptation, in English only: illustrated HTML at loc.gov

• Columbus (c1941), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Earthly Paradise (published elsewhere as To the Indies; c1940), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 1492, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Long Journey (3 volumes; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923-1924), by Johannes V. Jensen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mercedes of Castile (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at MOA)

• Columbus and De Soto (Boston and Chicago: Educational Pub. Co., 1891), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Columbus (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1892), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Columbiad: A Poem (London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1809), by Joel Barlow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Columbiad: A Poem, by Joel Barlow (Gutenberg text)
• Satan in Arms Against Columbus (Chicago: J. S. Hyland and Co., 1892), by Theodore Sydney Vaughn, contrib. by John Lancaster Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)

• Columbus in the Capitol (Quincentenary edition; Washington: GPO, 1992), ed. by Ann Baldessarini Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Columbus in the Capitol (Quincentenary edition; Washington: GPO, 1992), ed. by Ann Baldessarini Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by P. J. Capelotti (PDF at University of Calgary)
• The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

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