The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
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Imprinted at London :: By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker,
Anno 1599[-1600]
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Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
Discoveries (in geography), English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02495.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 20, 2025.

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Ad eundem illustrem equitem autoris praefatio.

REddenda est, quàm fieri potest breuissimè, in hoc vestibulo, ratio facti mei, & cur ita homo nouus & exterus, in tanta literatissimorum hominum copia, quibus Anglia beata est, versandum in hoc argumento mihi putauerim: ita enim tu fortissime Gil∣berte, foetum hunc nostrum in lucem exire voluisti. In seruitute & barbarie Tur∣cica, Christianis tamen, magno immortalis Dei beneficio, parentibus natus, aliquā etiam aetatis partem educatus; post quam doctissimorum hominum opera, quibus tum Pannoniae nostrae, tum imprimis saluae adhuc earum reliquiae florescunt, in literis adoleuissem, more nostrorum hominum, ad muisendas Christian orbis Academias ablegatus fui. Qua in peregrinatione, non solùm complura Musarum hospta, sedmultas etiam sapienter institutas respublicas, multarum Ecclesiarum probatissimas administratione introspeximus, iam fermè triennio ea in re posito. Fuerat haec nostra profectio ita à nobis comparata, vt non tantùm mores & vrbes gentinum videndum, sed in familiaritatem, am saltem notitiam illustriorum hominum introundum nois putaremus. Caeterum, vt hoc à nobis sine inuidia dici possit, (certè enim taceri absque malicia nullo modo potest) non locus, non natio, non respublica vlla nobis aequè ac tua Britannia complacuit, quamcunque in partem euen∣tum consilis mei considerem. Accedit, quòd praeter omnem expectationem meam ab omnibus tuis ci∣uibus, quibuscum aliqua consuetudo mihi contig it, tànta passìm humanitate acceptusessem, vt iam (sit hoc salua pietate à me dictum) suauissimae Anglorum amicitiae fermè aboleuerint desiderium & Pannoniarum & Budae meae, quibus patriae nomen debeo. Quas ab caussas cùm saepenumero animus uisset significationem aliquam nostrae huius voluntatis & existimationis edendi; accidit vtique secun∣dum sententiam, vt dum salutandis & cog noscendis excellentibus viris Londini operam do, ornatissi∣mus ac doctisimus amicus meus Richardus Hakluytus ad te me deduxerit, explicato mihi praecla∣rissimo tuo de ducenda propedièm colonia in nouum orbem instituto. Quae dum aguntur, agnoscere po∣ui ego illud corpu; & animum tuum sempiterna posteritatis commemoratione dignum, & agnoui pro∣fecto, eáque tali ac tanta obseruantia prosequi coepi; vt cum paulò post plura de tuis virtutibus, & re∣bus gestis passim audissem, tempus longè accommodatissimum existimarem esse, quo aliqua parte officij

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studij que nostri, ergàe & uam gentem perfungerer. Hoc est primum cuum, vnde nostrum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 origmem ducit. Reliquum est, vt eas & redeas quàm prosperrimè, vir nobilissime, & beneuolentia tua, autoritate, •••• nomine, tueare studium nostrum. Vale pridie Kalen. Aprilis 1583.

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