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• De Antichristo (13 books in 2 volumes, in Latin; Lyon: Sumptibus Societas Bibliopolarum, 1647), by Tomás Maluenda
  • Tomus Primus (Liber I-VI): page images at HathiTrust
  • Tomus Secundus (Liber VII-XIII): page images at HathiTrust
• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas His Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent (1850 edition), by Richard Hakluyt and John Winter Jones (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)
• The Cosmographiæ introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in facsimile, followed by the Four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, with their translation into English (The United States Catholic Historical Society, 1907), by Martin Waldseemüller, Amerigo Vespucci, Mario Emilio Cosenza, Edward Burke, Charles George Herbermann, Franz Wieser, Joseph Fischer, and United States Catholic Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the European settlements in America : in six parts ... each part contains an accurate description of the settlements in it, their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius and disposition of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements and their political and commercial views with regard to each other : in two volumes. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., 1757), by Edmund Burke and William Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the European settlements in America. In six parts. I. A short history of the discovery of that part of the world. II. The manners and customs of the original inhabitants. III. Of the Spanish settlements. IV. Of the Portuguese. V. Of the French, Dutch and Danish. VI. Of the English ... (J. Dodsley, 1770), by Edmund Burke and William Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of America (Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, in the Strand, and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1783), by William Robertson, John Balfour, T. Cadell, William Strahan, and Thomas Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerika (P. Meijer, 1780), by Alfonso de Ulloa, Daniel Charles Solander, William Robertson, Pieter Meijer, Antoine-Joseph Pernety, Cornelius Pauw, Pehr Kalm, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Joseph Banks, and Tank Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia natvral y moral de las Indias. (Año 1608., 1608), by José de Acosta, Alonso Martin, and Juan Berrillo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mundus novus (J.H.E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903), by Amerigo Vespucci, Emil Sarnov, and Giovanni Giocondo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descriptionis Ptolemaicae avgmentvm, siue, Occidentis notitia (Apud Franciscum Fabri bibliopolam iuratum, 1603), by Corneille Wytfliet (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'histoire dv Nouveau monde, ou, Description des Indes occidentales : contenant dix-huict liures (Chez Bonauenture & Abraham Elseuiers, imprimeurs ordinaires de l'Vniversité, 1640), by Joannes de Laet (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of trauayle in the West and East Indies (By Richarde Iugge., 1577), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Richard Jugge, Giacomo Gastaldi, Sebastian Münster, Antonio Pigafetta, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Richard Willes, and Richard Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire philosophique et politique : des établissmens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Chez Berry, 1794), by abbé Raynal (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. : In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, the sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be know[n]e to al such as shal attempte any nauigations, or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderful woorkes of God and nature. (In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell., 1555), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, William L. Clements, Grenville Kane, William Powell, Francisco López de Gómara, Antonio Pigafetta, Gonzalo Fernádez de Oviedo y Valdé, Pope Alexander VI, and Richard Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange and dangerous voyage of Captain Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (Printed by Iohn Legatt, for Iohn Partridge., 1633), by Thomas James, William L. Clements, John Partridge, John Legate, active 1633 W. W. (William Watts), and Henry Gellibrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief description of the whole world (Printed by T. Iudson, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at the signe of the Bible in Fleete-streete, 1599), by George Abbot, William L. Clements, John Browne, and Thomas Judson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise of the new India (by Edward Sutton., 1553), by Sebastian Münster, William L. Clements, Edward Sutton, Richard Eden, and British Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• New survey of the West-Indias (London : Printed by E. Cotes, and sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head-alley, M.DC.LV. [1655], 1655), by Thomas Gage, John Sweeting, and E. Cotes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cristóbal Colon. : Cartas que escribió sobre el descubrimiento de América y testamento que hizo á su muerte. (Dirección y administración [de la Biblioteca universal], 1880), by Christopher Columbus (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 country of Surrey Esq. (London : Printed for Robert Leybourn, and are to be sold by Thomas Pirrepoint, at the Sun in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1651), by George Gardyner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• America painted to the life. A true history of the originall undertakings of the advancement of plantations into those parts, with a perfect relation of our English discoveries ... 1628. to 1658. declaring the forms of their government, policies, religions, manners, customes, military disciplines, warres with the Indians, the commodities of their countries, a description of their townes, and havens, the increase of their trading with the names of their governours and magistrates. More especially an absolute narrative of the north parts of America, and of the discoveries and plantations of our English in New-England. Written by Sir Ferdinando Gorges .... Publisht ... by his grand-child Ferdinando Gorges Esquire, who hath much enlarged it and added severall accurate descriptions of his owne. (London : printed by E. Brudenell, for Nathaniel Brook dwelling at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1658), by Ferdinando Gorges and Ferdinando Gorges (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De orbe novo. Decade 1-3. English (Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge, 1577), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Richard Eden, and Richard Willes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cosmographia. English. Abridgments ([Imprinted at London : In Lombard strete, by [S. Mierdman for] Edward Sutton, [1553]]), by Sebastian Münster and Richard Eden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. / Written in French by the Count of Pagan, and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine, in order to a conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken. And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration. (London, : Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-Barre, 1661. [i.e. 1660]), by Blaise François de Pagan and William Hamilton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex. (London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, 1613), by Samuel Purchas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. ([London : J. Rastell, 1520?]), by John Rastell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (Londini : [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Geor. Bishop, 1605), by James Rosier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• America: or An exact description of the West-Indies: more especially of those provinces which are under the dominion of the King of Spain. / Faithfully represented by N.N. gent. (London, : printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Edw. Dod, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1655), by N. N. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London. (London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, 1626), by Samuel Purchas, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd Makīn, William Methold, and Jerome Horsey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for Thomas VVoodcocke, dwelling in paules Church-yard, at the signe of the blacke beare, 1582), by Richard Hakluyt (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Tratato. Que compôs o nobre & notavel capitão Antonio Galvão, dos diversos & desvayrados caminhos, por onde nos tempos passados a pimenta & especearia veyo da India ás nossas partes. English (Londini : [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis G. Bishop, 1601), by António Galvão and Richard Hakluyt (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Discourse Concerning Western Planting: Written in the Year 1584 by Richard Hakluyt, Now First Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript (Cambridge, MA: J. Wilson and Son, 1877), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Charles Deane, contrib. by Leonard Woods
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• Hawkins' voyage. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1847), by Richard Hawkins, C. R. Drinkwater Bethune, and Hakluyt Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rosier's narrative of Waymouth's voyage to the coast of Maine, in 1605 : Complete. With remarks by George Prince, showing the river explored to have been the Georges River : together with a map of the same and the adjacent islands. (Eastern Times Press, 1860), by James Rosier, William Strachey, and George Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906), by Edward Gaylord Bourne, Julius E. Olson, and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailors narratives of voyages along the New England coast, 1524-1624. (Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1905), by George Parker Winship, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Bruce Rogers, and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief and true relation of the discovery of the north part of Virginia (Impensis Geor. Bishop., 1602), by John Brereton, William L. Clements, George Bishop, Thomas Harriot, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Richard Hakluyt, and Edward Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake revived (Printed by E. for Nicholas Bourne, dwelling at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626), by Philip Nichols, William L. Clements, Nicholas Bourne, Edward Allde, and Francis Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• True relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present year 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia (Impensis Geor. Bishop., 1605), by James Rosier, William L. Clements, and George Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailors Narratives of Voyages Along the New England Coast, 1524-1624, ed. by George Parker Winship (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593: Reprinted from the Edition of 1622, by Richard Hawkins, ed. by C. R. Drinkwater Bethune (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, ed. by Julius E. Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne (Gutenberg ebook)
• A breef and sommarie discourse vpon the entended voyage to the hethermoste partes of America: Written by Captaine Carleill in Aprill 1583. for the better inducement to satisfie suche marchauntes of the Moscouian Companie and others, as in disburcyng their money towardes the furniture of the present charge: doe demaunde forthwith a present returne of gaine: albeit their saied perticuler disburcements are required but in verie slender sommes: The highest beeyng twentie and fiue pounde. The second at twelve pound ten shillynges. And y[e] lowest at sixe pound fiue shillinges. ([S.l. : J. Kingston?, 1583?]), by Christopher Carleill (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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
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• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
• A briefe and true relation of the discouerie of the north part of Virginia being a most pleasant, fruitfull and commodious soile: made this present yeere 1602, by Captaine Bartholomew Gosnold, Captaine Bartholowmew [sic] Gilbert, and diuers other gentlemen their associats, by the permission of the honourable knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, &c. Written by M. Iohn Brereton one of the voyage. Whereunto is annexed a treatise, of M. Edward Hayes, conteining important inducements for the planting in those parts, and finding a passage that way to the South sea, and China. (Londini : [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Geor. Bishop, 1602), by John Brereton and Edward Hayes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Encouragement to colonies (London : Printed [by W. Stansby] for Nathaniel Butter, An. Dom. 1630), by William Alexander Stirling (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The observations of Sir Richard Havvkins Knight, in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593 (London : Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] for Iohn Iaggard, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Starre in Fleete-streete, neere the Temple Gate, 1622), by Richard Hawkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An encouragement to colonies· by Sir VVilliam Alexander, Knight (London : Printed by William Stansby, 1624), by William Alexander Stirling (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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