The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres :
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Imprinted at London : By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599.; 657 images, 649 with full-text search
Second volume of the Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or overland, to the South and Sout-east parts of the World, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres
Third and last volume of the voyages, navigations, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation and in some few places where they have not been, of strangers, performed within and before the time of these hundred yeeres, to all parts of the newfound world of America or the West Indies, from 73 degrees of northerly to 57 of southerly latitudes
The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres : divided into three severall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed
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Imprinted at London : By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599.
Volume 2 has title: The second volume of the principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation.
Volume 3 has title: The third and last volume of the voyages, navigations, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation and in some few places where they have not been, of strangers, performed within and before the time of these hundred yeeres, to all parts of the newfound world of America or the West Indies, from 73 degrees of northerly to 57 of southerly latitude.
"The first Volume containeth the worthy Discoueries, &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by sea ... Together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this Realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe Commentary of the true state of Island, and of the Northern Seas and lands situate that way: As also, the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, anno. 1588. The fecond Volume comprehendeth the principall Navigations, Voyages ... made by Sea or ouer-land, to the South and South-eaft parts of the World ... Diuided into two feueral parts, &c."
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Second issue of the enlarged work first published in 1598, with the original Voyage to Cadiz--The Hakluyt handbook, v. 2, p. 491-551.Collation corresponds to the Hakluyt handbook with the following exceptions which are correctly paged: v. 1, p. 75, p. 510-511; v. 2, 2d ser., p. 64.
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1 online resource (22 unnumbered pages, 619 pages)
Volume 1 of a 3 volume set. For individual volumes in the set see CIHM nos. 94218-94220.
Some text in Greek, Latin and Italian.
