Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent / collected and published by Richard Hakluyt in the year 1582 ; edited by John Winter Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hakluyt, Richard.

Jones, John Winter.

Hakluyt Society.

Series:

Hakluyt Society, First Series ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557.

Cabot, Sebastian.

Zeno, Niccolò, -approximately 1395.

Zeno, Niccolò.

Zeno, Antonio, -approximately 1405.

Zeno, Antonio.

Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

Natural history--North America--Early works to 1800.

Natural history.

America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.

America.

Northwest Passage--Early works to 1800.

Northwest Passage.

Physical Description:

1 v. (various pagings) : facsim., maps.

Other Title:

Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons : and certaine notes of aduertisements and obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt : with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer understanding of the whole matter

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England : Ashgate, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains the original printed text, with notes and an introduction. The edition is described as prepared 'for the subscribers of 1849' and as the third volume of 1849 in the report in the next volume. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.

Contents:

chapter The Names of Certaine Late Writers of Geographie, with the Yeere Wherein They Wrote

chapter The Names of Certaine Late Trauaylers, Both by Sea and by Lande, which Also for the Most Part Haue Written of Their Owne Trauayles and Voyages

chapter A Verie Late and Great Probabilitie of a Passage by the North-West Part of America in Fifty-Eight Degrees of Northerly Latitude

chapter To the Right Worshipfull and Most Vertuous Gentleman Master Phillip Sydney, Esquire

chapter A Latine Copie of the Letters Patentes of King Henrie the Seuenth, Graunted vnto Iohn Gabote and His Three Sonnes

chapter The Same Letters Patents in English

chapter A Note of Sebastian Gabotes Voyage of Discouerie

chapter A Declaration of the Indies and Landes

chapter The Booke Made by the Right Worshipful Master Robert Thorne

chapter To the Most Christian King of Eraunce, Fraunces the First.

Notes:

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-317-14928-9

1-317-14929-7

1-315-57768-2

1-282-89241-X

9786612892417

1-4094-1512-0

9781315577685

OCLC:

929147224