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Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. (From Wikipedia) More about Humphrey Gilbert:
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Books by Humphrey Gilbert Books about Humphrey Gilbert: Filed under: Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583
9 additional books about Humphrey Gilbert in the extended shelves: The life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, England's first empire builder (Constable & co. ld., 1911), by William Gilbert Gosling (page images at HathiTrust)
Sir Humfrey Gylberte and his enterprise of colonization in America. Including his discourse to prove a northwest passage to Cataia; his letters patent from Queen Elizabeth; Captain Edward Haies' narrative; and other important papers and letters (Prince Society, 1903), by Carlos Slafter and Edward Haies (page images at HathiTrust)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Elizabeth's racketeer (Harper & Brothers, 1932), by Donald Barr Chidsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Tercentenary of Martin Pring's first voyage to the coast of Maine, 1603-1903. (The author, 1905), by Maine Historical Society, Henry Otis Thayer, Alfred L. P. Dennis, and James Phinney Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert : a record & a surmise (At the Favil Press, 1921), by Hillel Samson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, England's first empire builder (Constable, 1911), by W. G. Gosling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Voyages of Drake & Gilbert: select narratives from the "Principal navigations" of Hakluyt (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Richard Hakluyt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Voyages of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Humfrey Gilbert taken from "The principal navigations, voyages, traffics and discoveries". (Longmans, Green, 1925), by Richard Hakluyt (page images at HathiTrust)
A true reporte, of the late discoueries, and possession, taken in the right of the Crowne of Englande, of the new-found landes: by that valiaunt and worthye gentleman, Sir Humfrey Gilbert Knight Wherein is also breefely sette downe, her highnesse lawfull tytle therevnto, and the great and manifolde commodities, that is likely to grow thereby, to the whole realme in generall, and to the aduenturers in particular. Together with the easines and shortnes of the voyage. Seene and allowed. (At London : Printed by I[ohn] C[harlewood] for Iohn Hinde, dwelling in Paules Church-yarde, at the signe of the golden Hinde, Anno. 1583), by George Peckham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Books by Humphrey Gilbert: Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583, contrib.: Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert); A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, &c. (with Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy; EETS extra series #8; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1869), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, also contrib. by William Michael Rossetti and Eugene Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)
Additional books by Humphrey Gilbert in the extended shelves: Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583: A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight (Imprinted at London : By Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones, Anno. Domini. 1576. Aprilis. 12), also by George Gascoigne (HTML at EEBO TCP) Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583: Queene Elizabethes achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert). A booke of percedence. The ordering of a funerall, &c. Varying versions of The good wife, The wise man, &c. (Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1869), also by Frederick James Furnivall, Eugen Oswald, and William Michael Rosetti (page images at HathiTrust)
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