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• The Canarian: or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402 by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, Kt. (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1872), by Pierre Bontier and Jean Le Verrier, ed. by Richard Henry Major (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Le Canarien; livre de la conquête et conversion des Canaries (1402-1422) (C. Métérie, 1874), by Pierre Bontier, Gabriel Gravier, and Jean Le Verrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of the conquest and conversion of the Canarians (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1872), by Pierre Bontier, Jean Le Verrier, and Richard Henry Major (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algunos aspectos de la moderna poesía canaria ([s.n.], 1926), by Angel Valbuena Prat and Elías Serra y Ráfols (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La conquéte et les conquérants des Iles Canaries; nouvelles recherches sur Jean IV de Béthencourt et Gadifer de La Salle; le vrai manuscrit du Canarien. (E. Lerous, 1896), by Pierre Margry and Pierre Bontier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de las Canarias (Impr. La Provincia, 1800), by Pedro Bontier, José de Viera y Clavijo, and Jean Le Verrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La conquête et les conquérants des Iles Canaries. Nouvelles recherches sur Jean IV de Béthencourt et Gadifer de La Salle. Le vrai manuscrit du Canarien. (E. Leroux, 1896), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canarian : or, Book of the conquest and conversion of the Canarians in the year 1402 (B. Franklin,), by Pierre Bontier, Richard Henry Major, and Jean Le Verrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Americae pars VIII. : continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm nobilissimi et fortissimi equitis Francisci Draken, qui circumnauigato vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea copiis nauticis, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panamam, in Indiam nauigauit. Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralech quibus describitur ... regnum Gviana, ad septrionem fluminis Orenoque ... cuius ... tabula geographica in fronte operis occurrit. (Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, 1625), by Johann Israel de Bry, Johann Theodor de Bry, Francis Pretty, Thomas Gates, Walter Bigges, Gotthard Arthus, Lawrence Kemys, Nuño da Silva, Francis Drake, and Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Andamana, the First Queen of Canary, Ancestress of the Family of Eugenie, the Late Empress of the French, and Her Remarkable and Successful Coup d'État (New York: Printed by E. O. Jenkins, 1875), by William B. Whiting
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• Les îles Fortunées (A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie, 1869), by Eugène Pégot-Ogier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canary Islands, their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago (Gurney and Jackson, 1922), by David Armitage Bannerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beiträge zur Kenntnis von Vegetation und Flora der Kanarischen Inseln. (Kommissions-Verlag L. Friederichsen & Co., 1926), by Leonhard Lindinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands (Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : Peabody Museum of Harvard University, 1925., 1925), by Earnest Albert Hooton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeitas no oceano occidental (Typ. do Panorama, 1866), by Antonio Cordeyro and António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries (Béthune, 1835), by Philip Barker Webb, Jean François Camille Montagne, and Sabin Berthelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a residence in the Canary Islands, the south of Spain, and Algiers; illustrative of the state of religion in those countries. (F. & J. Rivington, 1851), by Thomas Debary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les iles fortunées; ou, Archipel des Canaries. (Librairie internationale, 1869), by Eugène Pégot-Ogier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des iles Canaries (Béthune, 1836), by Philip Barker Webb, Sabin Berthelot, and France. Ministère de l'instruction publique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Canarischen Inslen nach ihrem gigenwärtigen Instande, und mit besonder ir Beriehung auf Topographie und Statistis Gewerbfleinz, Handel und Litton ... (Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, 1831), by Francis Coleman Mac-Gregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andamana: the first Queen of Canary, and her remarkable and successful coup d'état. (E.O. Jenkins, 1875), by William B. Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais sur les isles Fortunées et l'antique Atlantide, ou, Précis de l'histoire générale de l'archipel des Canaries (Baudouin, 1802), by M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canary Islands. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries (Béthune, éditeur, 1836), by Philip Barker Webb, Paul Louis Oudart, M. Valenciennes, and Sabin Berthelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islas Canarias ... (Imprenta y libreria madrileña de Salvador Vidal, 1858), by Mariano Nougués Secall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fortunate Isles; or, The archipelago of the Canaries. (R. Bentley and son, 1871), by Eugène Pégot-Ogier and Frances Locock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte und Beschreibung der Kanarien-Inseln. (Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1804), by M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• España en el noroeste de África (Impr., de Fortanet, 1892), by Felipe Pérez del Toro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madeira and the Canary Islands, with the Azores; a practical and complete guide ... (Low, 1901), by A. Samler Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores; a practical and complete guide for the use of tourists and invalids. (S. Low, Marston & co., limited, etc., etc., 1913), by A. Samler Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Canarias, el peligro y sus remedios : conferencia dada en el Ateneo de Madrid (J. Perales y Martínez, 1899), by Mariano Belmás (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canaren (1892), by H. Rebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699 : wherein are described, the Canary-Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St. Jago, the Bay of All Saints, with the forts and town of Bahia in Brasil, Cape Salvadore, the winds on the Brasilian coast, Abrohlo-Shoals, a table of all the variations observ'd in this voyage, occurrences near the Cape of Good Hope, the course to New Holland. Shark's Bay, the isles and coast, &c. of New Holland : their inhabitants, manners, customs, trade, &c., their harbours, soil, beasts, birds, fish, &c. trees, plants, fruits, &c. : illustrated with several maps and draughts, also divers birds, fishes, and plants, not found in this part of the world, curiously ingraven on copper-plates : vol. III (London : Printed for James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1703., 1703), by William Dampier and James Knapton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis de l'histoire générale de l'Archipel des Canaries (Baudouin ;, 1803), by M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canary Islands economic survey ([H.M.S.O.], 1921), by Great Britain. Department of Overseas Trade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands (Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : Peabody Museum of Harvard University, 1925., 1925), by Earnest Albert Hooton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annotations sur l'origine des peuples qui occupèrent les iles Fortunées (E. Plon, 1879), by Sabin Berthelot (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Guanches of Tenerife, the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement. (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1907), by Alonso de Espinosa and Clements R. Markham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Noticias de la historia general de las islas de Canaria. (Impr. de Blas Román, 1772), by José de Viera y Clavijo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Anversois aux Canaries. (Backer, 1895), by Fernand Donnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticias de la historia general de las Islas de Canaria : contienen la descripción geográfica de todas : una idea del origen, caracter, usos y costumbres de sus antiguos habitantes : de los descubrimientos, y conquistas que sobre ellas hicieron los Europeos : de su gobierno eclesiastico, político y militar : del establecimiento, y succesión de su primera nobleza : de sus varones ilustres por dignidades, empleos, armas, letras, y santidad : de sus fábricas, producciones naturales, y comercio : con los principales sucesos de los ultimos siglos (Impr. y Litografía Isleña de J.N. Romero, 1858), by José de Viera y Clavijo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Madeira and the Canary Islands : a handbook for tourists (Lee and Nightingale, 1888), by Harold Lee and Mordey Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tenerife and Its Six Satellites: or, The Canary Islands Past and Present (new and revised edition; London et al.: M. Ward and Co., 1889), by Olivia M. Stone
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• Sixteen Years of an Artist's Life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary Islands, by Elizabeth Murray
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• Canary Island adventure, a young family's quest for the simple life. (Dutton, 1956), by Richard Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands: (D. Chamberlaine [etc.], 1767), by Juan de Abreu de Galindo and George Glas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographia Americae with an account of the Delaware Indians. (The Swedish colonial society, 1925), by Peter Mårtensson Lindeström, Amandus Johnson, and Swedish Colonial Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canary Islands (A. and C. Black, 1911), by Florence Du Cane and Ella Du Cane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyage to, and travels through the four principal islands of the African seas, performed by order of the French government, during the years 1801 and 1802 ... (R. Phillips, 1805), by M. Bory de Saint-Vincent and Barnard and Sultzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicalische beschreibung der Canarischen inseln (Gedruckt in der druckerei der K. Akademie der wissenschaften, 1825), by Leopold von Buch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and observations on the west coast of Africa, and its islands. Historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra, and Cape Verd islands; their climates, inhabitants, and productions. Accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, missionary operations, etc., etc., on that part of the African coast lying between Tangier, Morocco, and Benguela (New York : Derby & Jackson, 1860., 1860), by Charles W. Thomas and Jr. Collection Henry H. Bucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nach den glücklichen Inseln; Canarische Reisetage. (Velhagen & Klasing, 1876), by Franz von Löher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rides and studies in the Canary Islands (T. F. Unwin, 1888), by Charles Edwardes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and observations on the west coast of Africa, and its islands. Historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verd Islands; their climates, inhabitants, and productions; accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, etc., etc., etc. (Binns & Goodwin, 1864), by Chas. W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recuerdos de ultramar: apuntes de viaje (Oficina tip. de la Secretaría de fomento, 1894), by Jesús Galindo y Villa and Colonización e Industria Mexico. Ministerio de Fomento (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and observations on the west coast of Africa, and its islands. Historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra, and Cape Verd islands; their climates, inhabitants, and productions. Accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, missionary operations, etc., etc., on that part of the African coast lying between Tangier, Morocco, and Benguela (Derby & Jackson, 1860), by Chas. W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands (D. Chamberlaine & J. Williams, 1767), by Juan de Abreu de Galindo and George Glas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Canarien; livre de la conquête et conversion des Canaries (1402-1422) par Jean de Bethencourt. (C. Métérie, 1874), by Pierre Bontier, Gabriel Gravier, Jean Le Verrier, and Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canary Islands. (T. Whittingham, 1900), by Royall Tyler and Spain. Comisaría regia del turismo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Africa occidental: noticias e considerações (F. A. da Silva, 1864), by Francisco Travassos Valdez and Portugal. Ministério da Marinha e Ultramar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description physique des Iles Canaries, suivie dʾune indication des principaux volcans du globe (F.G. Levrault, 1836), by Leopold Buch and Charles Louis Boulanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto Ricco : exécuté par ordre du gouvernement français, depuis le 30 septembre 1796 jusqu'au 7 juin 1798, sous la direction du capitaine Baudin, pour faire des recherches et des collections relatives à l'histoire naturelle ... (A. Bertrand, 1810), by André Pierre Ledru and C. S. Sonnini (page images at HathiTrust)
• A. Rochons Reise nach Maroko und Indien (In Kommission bei A. Doll, 1805), by Alexis Rochon and Bory de Saint-Vincent (Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recuerdos de un viaje á Canarias. (Henrich y Compañía, 1906), by Juan Maluquer y Viladot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the Canaries with a camera (Methuen & co., 1909), by Margaret D'Este (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Canary Islands as a winter resort. (E. Stanford, 1890), by John Whitford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bilder und Studien von einer Reise nach den Kanarischen Inseln (P. Pabst, 1909), by E. Bolleter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sixteen years of an artist's life in Morocco, Spain, and the Canary Islands. (Hurst and Blackett, 1859), by Elizabeth Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise-Skizzen : Ueber die Linie, 1860 : als Manuscript gedruckt. (Kaiserl. köningl. hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1861), by Emperor of Mexico Maximilian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Märstage im Kanarischen Archipel : ein Ferien-Ausflung nach Teneriffa und La Palma. (Veit, 1893), by Victor Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and observations on the west coast of Africa and its islands. Historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra and Cape Verd islands; their climates, inhabitants and productions. Accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, missionary operations, etc., etc., on that part of the African coast lying between Tangier, Morocco and Benguela. (J.B.McFerrin, 1860), by Charles W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisebilder von den Canarischen inseln. (J. Perthes, 1867), by Karl Wilhelm Georg Fritsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the Canary Islands. (G. W. Light, 1834), by D. J. Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relatorio da viagem aerea Lisboa-Rio de Janeiro. ([s.n.], 1922), by Arthur de Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures and observations on the west coast of Africa, and its islands. Historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra, and Cape Verd Islands; their climates, inhabitants, and productions. Accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, missionary operations, etc., etc., on that part of the African coast lying between Tangier, Morocco, and Benguela (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Chas. W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Por tierras de Portugal y de España ... (V. Prieto y com.a, 1911), by Miguel de Unamuno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Estudios históricos, climatológicos y patológicos de la islas Canarias. 1. parte, Historia, t. 1. (I. Miranda, 1876), by Gregorio Chil y Naranjo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the south of Spain, Algiers, and the Canary Islands. (Francis and John Rivington, 1851), by Thomas Debary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americae pars sexta, siue, Historiæ ab Hieronymo Bẽzono Mediolanẽse scriptæ, sectio tertia : res nõ minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ : in hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opulẽtissimas illas Peruäni regni prouincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba : deĩde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno ciuilia bella : additus est breuis de fortunatis insulis cõmentariolus in duo capita distinctus : item additiones ad singula capita historiam illustrantes : accesit Perväni regni chorographica tabula ... : omnia elegantibus figuris in æs incisis expressa (Theodor de Bry], 1596), by Girolamo Benzoni, Nicolas Le Challeux, Urbain Chauveton, and Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire nouvelle du nouveau monde contenant en somme ce que les Hespagnols ont fait jusqu'à présent aux Indes occidentales, & le rude traitement qu'ils font à ces poures peuples-là (Par Eustace Vignon, 1579), by Girolamo Benzoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das sechste Theil der Neuwen Welt, oder, Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt, das dritte Buch darinnen warhafftig erzehlet wirdt, wie die Spanier die goldreiche Landschafften dess peruanischen Königreichs eyngenommen ... : sampt einem kurtzen ... Tractä tlein von den glückhafftigen Inseln : mit ... Erklärungen ..., auch einer Landtafel dess peruanischen Königreichs (Bey Johann Feyrabendt, in Verlegung Dietrichs von Bry, 1597), by Theodor de Bry and Girolamo Benzoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cinq années de séjour aux iles Canaries (A. Hennuyer, 1891), by R. Verneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux iles Fortunées, le pic de Ténériffe et les Canaries (E. Plon, 1880), by Jules Joseph Leclercq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Iles Canaries : description de l'archipel (E. Guilmoto, 1908), by Louis Proust and C.-J. Pitard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English in Canary Isles; being a journal in Tenerife and Gran Canaria, with latest information (Western Daily Mercury Office, 1888), by S. Frances Latimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canary islands as a winter resort (E. Stanford, 1900), by John Whitford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tenerife and its six satellites; or, The Canary islands past and present (M. Ward & co., limited, 1887), by Olivia M. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicalische beschreibung der Canarischen inseln (Gedruckt in der druckerei der K. Akademie der wissenschaften, 1969), by Leopold von Buch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madeira and the Canary Islands : a handbook for tourists (Lee and Nightingale, 1888), by Harold Lee and Mordey Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographia historica, de las Islas Philipinas, del Africa, y de sus islas adyacentes ... (G. Ramirez, 1752), by Pedro Murillo Velarde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naar den equator, met een voorspel: van pastoor soldaat (in Dutch), by M. T. H. Perelaer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Canary Islands, by Florence Du Cane, illust. by Ella Du Cane (Gutenberg ebook)

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