BOOK
Title:
North America from earliest discovery to first settlements: The Norse voyages to 1612
Publication:
Harper & Row, New York, [c1977]
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-595) and index.
Extent:
xvii, 621 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps ; 22 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Evolution and mystery in the discovety of America
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.58
Creator:
Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa, 1919.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
p. 55-73. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The old world and the new 1492-1650
Creator:
Elliott, John Huxtable.
Publication:
University Press, Cambridge, Eng, 1970.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-113) and index.
Extent:
x, 118 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Red, white, and Black: the peoples of early North America
Publication:
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, c2000.
Extent:
vi, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the West Ocean: ... In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole Christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande,the sea, and the starres
Alt. Title:
De orbe novo. Decade 1-4. English
Creators:
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 | Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576 | AlexanderVI, Pope, 1431-1503 | Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557 | Pigafetta, Antonio, ca. 1480/91-ca. 1534
Publication:
In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell, Londini, Anno 1555.
Notes:
An account of decade 1-4 of De orbe novo; however, the fourth decade is given as an extract, as in the Latin edition of Basel, 1533. Colophon: Imprynted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Bell by Roberte Toy. The first English collection of voyages, including also contributions by or excerpts from Pope Alexander VI, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Antonio Pigafetta, and many others, edited by Richard Eden. For complete contents see Arber. Cf. Arber, Edward. The first three English books on America, [? 1511]-1555 A.D. Birmingham, 1885. Leaves irregularly numbered. Extra leaf, signed iii. ii., inserted between l. 309 and 310. Title within woodcut border. Gothic type. Initials. Marginal notes.
Extent:
[48] p., 361 leaves, 26 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The Lewis and Clark journals: an American epic of discovery, the abridgment of the definitive Nebraska edition
Creators:
Moulton, Gary E. | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Publication:
Universty of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, [2003]
Extent:
lviii, 413 p. : plates, maps ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Stolen continents: The "New World" through Indian eyes
Creator:
Wright, Ronald, 1948-
Publication:
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass, [c1992]
Notes:
"A Peter Davison book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
xi, 424 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Behaim contro Colombo: Ua polemica settecentesca tra Filadelfia e Milano
Publication:
Bulzoni Editore, Rome, [c1989]
Notes:
From Temi Colombiani, 2. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
p. [47]-68. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Adventurers in the wilderness
Creators:
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Skinner, Constance Lindsay, d. 1939 | Wood, William Charles Henry, 1864-1947
Publication:
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1925.
Notes:
"Liberty bell edition." "The Liberty bell edition of 'The pageant of America', the first to be printed, is limited to 1,500 impressions on paper expressly made for the work."
Extent:
3 p. ¾., 369 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
America in Europe: A history of the New World in reverse
Alt. Title:
América en Europa. English
Creators:
Arciniegas, Germán, 1900- | Arciniegas, Gabriela. | Arana, R. Victoria.
Publication:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, [c1986]
Notes:
Translation of: América en Europa. Bibliography: p. 293-298.
Extent:
xiv, 298 p. : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation unto this present: In fovre parts. The first containeth a theologicall and geographical historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions from the flovd, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since
Alt. Title:
Purchas his pilgrimage
Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Publication:
Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, London, 1614.
Notes:
Title within line border. The statement of responsibility follows the edition statement. Includes index. Nos. 330-331 duplicated and 852-861 omitted in paging. "The catalogue of the authors [mentioned]" : prelim. leaves 11-14. Franklin library; no.C26 N20.
Extent:
[28], 918 (i.e. 910), [34] p. ; 30 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Four travel journals: The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
Creator:
Beals, H. K. (Herbert Kyle), 1934-
Publication:
Ashgate, For the Hakluyt Society, Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT, London, 2007.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-384) and indexes.
Call #:
910.6 H125W SER.3, NO.18
Extent:
x, 404 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports., tables ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A book of old maps: delineating American history from the earliest days down to the close of the Revolutionary War
Creators:
Fite, Emerson David, 1874-1953 | Freeman, Archibald, 1866-
Publication:
Arno Press, New York, 1969 [i.e. 1970]
Notes:
"Arno Press edition, including The Vinland map." Includes bibliographies.
Extent:
xv, 299 p. maps. 41 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The bold and magnificent dream: America's founding years, 1492-1815
Creators:
Catton, Bruce, 1899- | Catton, William Bruce, 1926-
Publication:
Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, 1978.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. [466]-477. Includes index.
Extent:
viii, 495 p. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Narrative and critical history of America/by a corps of emminent historical scholars under the editorship of Justin Winsor
Creator:
Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
Publication:
Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston; New York, 1884-89.
Notes:
Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information and by notes, in addition to footnotes.
Extent:
8 v. ill., facsim., plates, ports,; 27 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Empires to nations: expansion in America, 1713-1824
Creator:
Savelle, Max, 1896-
Publication:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, [1974]
Notes:
Bibliography: p. [293]-319. Includes index.
Extent:
xxi, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weerelde: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land: vervaetende d'oorsprong der Americænen en Zuid-Landers, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds, gelegendheid der vaste kusten, eilanden, steden, sterkten, dorpen, tempels, bergen, fonteinen, stroomen, huisen, de natuur van beesten, boomen
Creator:
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Publication:
by Jacob Meurs boek-verkooper en plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graft, schuin over de Wester-markt, in de stad Meurs, t'Amsterdam, 1671.
Notes:
Title in red and black; title vignette. Added engraved title page: America. t'Amsterdam by Jacob van Meurs, plaetsnyder en boeckverkooper op de Keysersgraft in de stadt Meurs. 1671. Errors in paging.
Extent:
[8], 585, [27] p., [55] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 32 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierrafirme del mar océano
Creators:
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557 | Amador de los Ríos, José, 1818-1878 | Real Academia de la Historia (Spain)
Publication:
Impr. de la Real academia de la historia, Madrid, 1851-1855.
Notes:
The illustrations and the four maps are reproduced from the designs in the original manuscript. "Obras de Oviedo y juicio crítico de las mismas. Sus principales caractéres como historiador. Catálogo cronológico de sus escritos": v. 1, p. lxxxi-cvii. The "Historia" is divided into three parts containing 50 books in all. A fourth part is mentioned by the author, in his Quinquagenas, 1555, 1. pte., proh., as being in process of composition; beyond this reference and occasional allusions to the fourth part in his "Historia" nothing is known of it. The present is the first complete edition of the three parts.
Extent:
3 pts. in 4 v. : plates, maps, plans. ; 32 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis: libri XVIII
Creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649
Publication:
Elzevirios, Lugd. Batav, 1633.
Notes:
Includes index. Engraved t.-p. Half-title: Joannis de Laet Americae utriusque descriptio.
Extent:
16 p. l., 690, [18] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., folded maps. ; 35 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent
Creators:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616 | Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881 | Fahyan, Robert, -1513 | Thorne, Robert, -1527 | Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485-1528 | Ribaut, Jean, approximately 1520-1565 | Hacket, Thomas, active 1560-1590 | Great Britain Laws, statutes, etc. 1485-1509, Henry VII.
Publication:
Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1850.
Notes:
Reprint of original edition, including t.-p. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
cxi, 171, 6 p., [3] fold. leaves of plates : facsims., maps (fold.) ; 23 cm.
