Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607), was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer and captain of a Spanish expedition noted for the first recorded European navigation of the strait that separates the Australian mainland from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait). (From Wikipedia)
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Torres, Luis Vaez de, active 1606, contrib.: The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1904), ed. by Clements R. Markham, also contrib. by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Basil H. Soulsby, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Juan de Torquemada, Diego de Prado y Tovar, Fernando de Castro, Juan Luis Arias, and Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza
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Torres, Luis Vaez de, active 1606: The Philippine islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the close of the sixteenth century (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1868), also by Antonio de Morga and Lord Stanley of Alderley (page images at HathiTrust)- Torres, Luis Vaez de, active 1606: The voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1904), also by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Juan Lius Arias, Fernando de Castro, Diego de Prado y Tobar, Juan de Torquemada, Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Basil H. Soulsby, and Clements R. Markham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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