Sailors narratives of voyages along the New England coast, 1524-1624
By: with notes by George Parker Winship.
Contributors: Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952.; Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485-1528.; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration -- English -- Early works to 1800; New England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; America -- Early accounts to 1600
Genres: Early works to 1800.
First sentence: Since the tempests which we encountered on the northern coasts, I have not written to your most Serene and Christian Majesty concerning the four ships sent out by your orders on the ocean to discover new lands, because I thought you must have been before apprized of all that had happened to us—that we had been compelled by the impetuous violence of the winds to put into Brittany in distress with only the two ships Normandy and Dauphine; and that after having repaired these ships, we made a cruise in them, well armed, along the coast of Spain, as your Majesty must have heard, and also of our new plan of continuing our intended voyage with the Dauphine alone; being now returned from this voyage, I proceed to give your Majesty an account of our discoveries.
Notes: Work of Bruce Rogers, 136
Warde, F. Bruce Rogers, 62
Designed by Bruce Rogers.
"Four hundred and forty copies printed"--Verso of t.p.
LC has copy no. 439.
Table of contents: title: Narragansett Bay / Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524; title: Maine / David Ingram, 1568; title: Buzzard's Bay / Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602; title: Plymouth Harbour / Martin Pring, 1603; title: Maine and Massachusetts / Samuel de Champlain, 1605; title: St. George's River / George Waymouth, 1605; title: Kenebeck River / George Popham and Ralegh Gilbert, 1607; title: Penobscot and the fishing banks / Henry Hudson, 1609; title: Penobscot Bay / Samuel Argall, 1610; title: Monhegan / John Smith, 1614; title: Maine and Cape Cod / Thomas Dermer, 1619; title: York and Portland / Christopher Levett, 1624.