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• The History of North and South America, From its Discovery, to the Death of General Washington (2 volumes in 1; Philadelphia et al.: Johnson and Warner, 1811), by Richard Snowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of North and South America, From its Discovery to the Death of General Washington. (2 volumes in 1; Philadelphia: B. Warner, 1817), by Richard Snowden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving Albert Leonard (HTML at UC Press)
• 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)
• Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Colonización de las Posesiones Españolas en América y Oceanía, Sacados, en su Mayor Parte del Real Archivo de Indias (42 volumes in Spanish, title and imprint vary somewhat across volumes; 1864-1884), ed. by Joaquín Francisco Pacheco, Francisco de Cárdenas, and Luis Torres de Mendoza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier (HTML at PBS)
• The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1905), by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, ed. by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, trans. by Fanny Bandelier, contrib. by Marca da Nizza and Antonio de Mendoza
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • audio reading at Librivox
• The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1894), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (reprint of the Hakluyt Society publication; New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Catilla del Oro, and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1865), by Pascual de Andagoya, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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

• De Insulis Inuentis (illustrated Latin edition, ca. 1493), by Christopher Columbus, trans. by Leandro di Cosco (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
• La Florida del Inca: Historia del Adelantado Hernando de Soto, Gobernador y Capitán General del Reino de la Florida, y de Otros Heróicos Caballeros Españoles é Indios (new edition in Spanish, in 2 volumes (marked as v6 and 7 of a larger series); Madrid: Los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829), by Garcilaso de la Vega (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • 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)

• 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

• The Earthly Paradise (published elsewhere as To the Indies; c1940), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

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• 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
• The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History: 1300-1600, by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• The Men Who Found America, by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
• Los Caballeros del Dorado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Clasical Espanola, 1915), by Ciro Bayo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida: or, Record of the Events of Fifty-Six years, from 1512 to 1568 (3 volumes in 1, including Vega's History of the Conquest of Florida; Philadelphia: Collins, 1881), by Barnard Shipp, contrib. by Garcilaso de la Vega (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org

• Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America (London: T. De La Rue and Co., 1880), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Edward John Payne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1953), by Henriette Mertz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Fusang: or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (New York: J. W. Bouton, 1875), by Charles Godfrey Leland (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Notices of Fu-Sang, and Other Countries Lying East of China, in the Pacific Ocean (1881), by S. Wells Williams, contrib. by Ma Duanlin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
• 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)

• An Old Captivity (c1940), by Nevil Shute
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 1492, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Mercedes of Castile (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at MOA)
• The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)
• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

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