The discoveries of the large and bewtiful empire of Guiana / by Sir Walter Ralegh; edited from the original text, with introduction, notes and appendixes of hitherto unpublished documents, by V. T. Harlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Contributor:

Harlow, Vincent T. (Vincent Todd), 1898-1961.

Penzer, N. M. (Norman Mosley), 1892-1960, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guiana--Discovery and exploration.

Guiana.

El Dorado.

America--Early accounts to 1600.

America.

Physical Description:

cvi, 182 pages, 1 leaf : including facsimile frontispiece (portrait) folded maps. ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : The Argonaut press, 1928.

Notes:

On half-title, "Editor: N. M. Penzer". The preface is signed by him.

Includes facsimile of t.-p. of original: The discoverie of the large rich, and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana, with a relation of the great and Golden Citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595. by Sir W. Ralegh Knight, Captaine of her Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden of the Stanneries, and her Highnesse Lieutenant generall of the Countie of Cornewall. Jmprinted at London by Robert Robinson. 1596.

Includes facsimile of a map of Guiana, with the courses of the Orinoco, Marañon or Amazons, drawn by or for Sir Walter Raleigh circa 1595. (British museum, Add. ms. 17940, A)

"An abstract taken out of certaine Spanyardes letters concerning Guiana and the countries lying upon the great riuer of Orenoque; with certaine reports also touching the same" [letters taken at sea by Captaine George Popham, 1594]: p. [77]-85.

Appendixes: A. Unpublished Spanish documents relating to the journeys of Antonio de Berrio and Domingo de Vera in search of El Dorado.--B. Unpublished Spanish documents relating to Ralegh's expedition to Guiana (1595).--C. Of the voyage for Guiana, written by or for Sir Walter Ralegh.

OCLC:

1613596