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... cosmographie with an universall mappe : he seeing me somewhat curious in the view thereof , began to instruct my ignorance by shewing me the division of the earth into three parts after the olde account , and then ac- cording to the ...
... cosmographie with an universall mappe : he seeing me somewhat curious in the view thereof , began to instruct my ignorance by shewing me the division of the earth into three parts after the olde account , and then ac- cording to the ...
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... Cosmographie du Levant . Lion , Jean de Tournes , 1556 ; 4to . II . Les singularités de la France Antarctique , autrement nommée Amerique , et de plusieurs terres et isles décou- vertes de nostre temps . Anvers , C. Plantin , 1558 ; 8vo ...
... Cosmographie du Levant . Lion , Jean de Tournes , 1556 ; 4to . II . Les singularités de la France Antarctique , autrement nommée Amerique , et de plusieurs terres et isles décou- vertes de nostre temps . Anvers , C. Plantin , 1558 ; 8vo ...
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... Cosmographie , able to doe his countrey good , and worthie , in my iudgment , for the mani- folde good partes in him , of good reputation and better for- tune . This cursorie pamphlet I am ouer bold to present vnto your worshippe : but ...
... Cosmographie , able to doe his countrey good , and worthie , in my iudgment , for the mani- folde good partes in him , of good reputation and better for- tune . This cursorie pamphlet I am ouer bold to present vnto your worshippe : but ...
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... Cosmographie : who sayled along and beyonde this lande of Newe Fraunce , at the charges of King Henrie the seuenth , king of Englande . And hee He calleth tolde mee , that hauing sayled a long time West and by North Ilands . beyonde ...
... Cosmographie : who sayled along and beyonde this lande of Newe Fraunce , at the charges of King Henrie the seuenth , king of Englande . And hee He calleth tolde mee , that hauing sayled a long time West and by North Ilands . beyonde ...
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... Cosmographie , shoulde goe in the same shippes , to bring mee certaine relation of the situation of the countrey , and to bee experte in the Nauigation of those seas , and there to haue informations of many other things and aduise that ...
... Cosmographie , shoulde goe in the same shippes , to bring mee certaine relation of the situation of the countrey , and to bee experte in the Nauigation of those seas , and there to haue informations of many other things and aduise that ...
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America Angliæ beinge boates Cabot Cape Capo verde carde certayne coast colours commodities Cosmographie couered dayes degrees discouered discovery diuers East edition eisdem Emperour English eorum equinoctiall Estotiland euery farre fish Florida France Frisland Gerard Mercator giue graines groweth Hackluit hæredibus hath haue hauen hauing Henry VII honour Icaria Ilandes India Indies insulas isles Johanni John John Cabot king of Portingale lande latitude leagues letter letters patent Linsch London Lord Lordship maner mappe Martin Frobisher Muscovy Company nauigation neuer nobis North ouer patent Pearles perceiued Prince printed quilate quod Ramusio Ribault Richard Hakluyt riuer river sayde sayled Sebastian Sebastian Cabot selues shewed shippes ships sonne sorte Spaine Spaniards Spayne spicerie things thither translation unto vnder vnderstande vnto voyage vpon wee haue Wherefore whereof wood worth yeelde yeere yere Zichmni
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Page xxi - Governments, and Warres of the INDIANS. Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt, and translated into English by M. Lok., Gent.
Page li - In the second is set out his second voyage, with the adventures and accidents thereof. In the thirde is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage, with a severall description of the countrey and the people there inhabiting. With a particular card thereunto adjoyned of meta incognita, so farre forth as the secretes of the voyage may permit.
Page v - I found lying open upon his boord certeine bookes of cosmographie with an universall mappe : he seeing me somewhat curious in the view thereof, began to instruct my ignorance by shewing me the division of the earth into three parts after the olde account, and then according to the latter and better distribution into more.
Page vi - Which words of the Prophet together with my cousins discourse (things of high and rare delight to my yong nature) tooke in me so deepe an impression, that I constantly resolved, if ever I were preferred to the University, where better time, and more convenient place might be ministred for these studies, I would by Gods assistance prosecute that knowledge and kinde of literature, the doores whereof (after a sort) were so happily opened before me.
Page lxxxvii - ... to discover, search, find out, and view such remote, heathen, and barbarous lands, countries, and territories, not actually possessed of any Christian prince, nor inhabited by Christian people...
Page xxxiv - Westminster, to whom England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any man of that age.
Page lxxxvii - The colleagues of the fellowship for the discovery of the north-west passage.
Page 152 - Description of a Voyage made by certaine Ships of Holland into the East Indies, with their Aduentures and Successe ; together with the Description of the Countries, Townes and Inhabitantes of the same : who set forth on the second of April, 1595, and returned on the 14 of August, 1597. Translated out of Dutch into English by WP (William Phillip).
Page xxiii - English navigation | round about the whole globe of the earth. | .By Richard Hakluyt, master of artes and student sometime | of Christchurch in Oxford. | Imprinted at London by George Bishop) and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to | Christopher Barker, Printer to the | Queenes most excellent Maiestie | 1589.
Page vi - English languages, and in my publike lectures was the first, that produced and shewed both the olde imperfectly composed, and the new lately reformed Mappes, Globes, Spheares, and other instruments of this Art for demonstration in the common schooles, to the singular pleasure, and generall contentment of my auditory.