The voyages of the English nation to America, before the year 1600
Subtitle: from Hakluyt's Collection of voyages (1598-1600)
By: ed. by Edmund Goldsmid.
Contributors: Goldsmid, Edmund; Alarcon, Fernando; Cabot, Sebastian, ca. 1474-1557.; Carlile, Captain; Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557; Davis, John, 1550?-1605.; Frobisher, Martin, Sir, ca. 1535-1594.; Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.; Gourgues, Dominique de, 1530?-1593; Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621; Landonnière, Réné; Leigh, Charles; Peckham, George, Sir, d. 1608; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Ribaut, Jean, 1520 (ca.)-1565; Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500-1542; Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485-1528.; Zeno, Antonio; Zeno, Nicolo
Publisher: Goldsmid
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Brazil -- Description and travel.; California -- Description and travel.; Florida -- Description and travel.; Guiana.; La Plata, Rio de; Margarita Island (Venezuela); Mexico -- Description and travel.; Newfoundland -- History; Trinidad. -- Description and travel; America -- Discovery and exploration
Table of contents: value: sol. 1. Voyage of Sebastian Cabota; Voyages of Master Frobisher; Voyages of John Davis; Voyages of Nicolas and Anthony Zeno to the Yles of Frisland; Voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to Newfoundland, 1583.-  Vol. 2. Sir George Peckham's report; Discourse upon the intended voyage by Capt. Carlile; Voyage of Charles Leigh; Voyages of Jacques Cartier; Discourse of western planting by R. Hakluyt; Voyages to Virginia by order of Sir Walter Raleigh; Report of the new found land of Virginia by Thomas Heriot; Relation of John de Verrazano; Voyages to Florida of René Landonniere, John Ribault and Capt. Gourgues; Description of Florida by Ferd. de Soto.- Vol. 3. Soto's Description of Florida (contd.); Voyages to the 15 provinces of New Mexico and Quivira and Cibola; Voyages to Mexico and New Spain by English men; Voyages to Brazil; Two voyages to the River Plate; Discovery of the Gulf of California.-  Vol. 4. Navigation and discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh; Principal voyages of the English nation to the isles of Trinadad, Margarita etc.