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 23, 2025.

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The discourses, letters, intelligences, obseruations, and principall rutiers belonging to the voyages next before mentioned.
THe opinion of Don Aluaro Baçan marques of Santa Cruz, and high admirall of Spaine, tou∣ching the flet of sir Francis Drake lying at the isles of Bayona on the coast of Galicia, written in Libon the 6 of October 1585, after the account of Spaine.
pag. 532
A resolution of the principall land-captaines, which accompanied sir Francis Drake in his me∣morable voyage to the West Indies, 1585; what course they thought most expedient to be taken. Gi∣uen at Cartagena the 17 of February 1585.
pag. 543
A relation of the surueying, new building finishing, making, and mending of certeine ports, har∣bours forts, and cities in the West Indies: written by Baptista Antonio the king of Spaines suruey∣our in those parts 1587.
pag. 548
Twelue Spanis letters written from diuers places of the islands and of the maine land, aswell of Nueua Espanna, as of Tierra firma and Perú, intercepted by the ships of the worshipfull M. Iohn Wats, disclosing many secrets toching the aforesayd countreys, and the state of the South sea, and the trade to the Philippinas.
pag. 557. and the pages following.
The interpretation of certeine words of the language of Trinidad annexed to the voyage of sir Ro∣bert Duddeley.
pag. 577
A libell of Spanish lies written by Don Bernaldino delgadillo de Auellaneda, generall of the king of Spaines armada, concerning some part of the last voyage of sir Francis Drake: together with a confutation thereof by M. Henry Sauile, &c.
* 1.1 pag. 591, & 593.
An excellent ruttier for the islands of he West Indies, and for Tierra firma, and Nueua E∣spanna.
pag. 603

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A principall ruttier conteining most particular directions to saile from Saint Lucar in Andalu∣zia, by the Canaries, the Antillas, and the other greater Isles Westward of them, to Saint Iuan de Vl∣lua in Nueua Espanna.
pag. 613
A declaration of the Capes and Islands aswell of Madera, the Canaries, and The west Indies, as of the Açores, and the Isles of Cabo Verde.
pag. 624.
A declaration of the longitudes or Westerne and Easterne distances from Spaine to New Spaine in America, and from thence backe againe to Spaine.
pag. 626

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