America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800
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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
- 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
- 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)
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Filed under: America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish- 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
- 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)
- Writings of Christopher Columbus, Descriptive of the Discovery and Occupation of the New World (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Paul Leicester Ford
- 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 A. 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- De Antichristo (13 books in 2 volumes, in Latin; Lyon: Sumptibus Societas Bibliopolarum, 1647), by Tomás Maluenda
- 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)
- 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
- The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
- Farther Observations on the Discovery of America By Prince Madog Ab Owen Gwynedd, About the Year 1170: Containing the Account Given By General Bowles, the Creek or Cherokee Indian, Lately in London, and By Several Others, of a Welsh Tribe or Tribes of Indians, Now Living in the Western Parts of North America (London: Printed by J. Brown, 1792), by John Williams
- 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
- The Discoveries of the Norsemen on the Northeast Coast of America: Their Attempt at Colonization (reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Geogrpahical Society of the Pacific, 1910), by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Gustave Niebaum