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  • Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America 1502-1530. Reproduced by photography from original manuscripts. Issued under the direction of Edward Luther Stevenson.

    • Cartographic
    • New Brunswick, N.J., 1903.
    • 1903
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1903)Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • The history of the discovery and settlement of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson ; with an account of his life and writings ; to which are added questions for the examination of students by John Frost.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper & Bros., 1850.
    • 1850
  • The discoveries of the Norsemen in America, with special relation to their early cartographical representation; by Joseph Fischer ... translated from the German by Basil H. Soulsby ...

    • Text
    • London, H. Stevens, Son & Stiles; St. Louis, B. Herder, 1903.
    • 1903
    • 2 Items
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    Text HAL (Fischer, J. Discoveries of the Norsemen in America)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America 1502-1530 : reproduced by photography from original manuscripts / issued under the direction of Edward Luther Stevenson.

    • Text
    • New Brunswick, N.J. : E.L. Stevenson, 1906.
    • 1906
    • 3 Items
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    Text Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1906) v. 7-12Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117

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    Text Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1906) v. 1-6Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117

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  • The eyes of discovery; the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950]
    • 1950
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  • The eyes of discovery; the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers.

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    • Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950]
    • 1950
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  • Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America 1502-1530 : reproduced by photography from original manuscripts / Issued under the direction of Edward Luther Stevenson.

    • Cartographic
    • New Brunswick, N.J., 1903.
    • 1903
    • 1 Item
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  • The history of the discovery and settlement of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson ; with an account of his life and writings ; to which are added questions for the examination of students, by John Frost.

    • Text
    • New-York : Harper & Bros., 1837.
    • 1837
    • 1 Resource

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  • Shedding the veil : mapping the European discovery of America and the world / Thomas Suárez.

    • Text
    • Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-Map Div. E121 .S87 1992Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • The early Jesuit missions in North America [electronic resource] / compiled and translated from the letters of the French Jesuits, with notes ; by the Rev. William Ingraham Kip.

    • Text
    • Albany, N.Y. : Pease & Prentice, 1866, [c1846]
    • 1866-1846
  • The new land; discovery, exploration, and early settlement of Northeastern United States, from earliest voyages to 1621, told in the words of the explorers themselves. Compiled and edited, with pref. and running commentary, by Phillip Viereck. Drawings by Ellen Viereck.

    • Text
    • New York, John Day Co. [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text HAX (Viereck, P. New land)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The new land; discovery, exploration, and early settlement of Northeastern United States, from earliest voyages to 1621, told in the words of the explorers themselves. Compiled and edited, with pref. and running commentary, by Phillip Viereck. Drawings by Ellen Viereck.

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    • New York, John Day Co. [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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  • A short discoverie of the coasts and continent of America [electronic resource] : from the equinoctiall northward and the adjacent isles / by William Castell ; whereunto is prefixed the authors [sic] petition to this present Parliament for the propagation of the Gospell in America, attested by many eminent English and Scottish divines ; and a late ordinance of Parliament for that purpose and for the better government of the English plantations there ; together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers [sic] speech in Parliament, 21 Jan., concerning America.

    • Text
    • London : [s.n.], 1644.
    • 1644
    • 1 Resource

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  • A map of the discoveries made by the Russians on the North West Coast of America / produced by the Alaska Centennial Commission from the files of the Alaska Historical Society and Museum.

    • Cartographic
    • [Juneau, Alaska] : The Alaska Centennial Commission, [1967]
    • 1967-1761
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic Map Div. 23-1214Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530.

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    • New York, B. Franklin [1970]
    • 1970-1869
    • 1 Item
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    Text Map Div. 99-94Schwarzman Building M1 - Map Division Room 117

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  • A / new discovery / of a / vast country in America, / extending above four thousand miles, / between / New France and New Mexico; / with a / description of the great lakes, cata- / racts, rivers, plants, and animals. / Also, the manners, customs, and languages of the se- / veral native Indians; and the advantage of com- / merce with those different nations. / With a / continuation, / giving an account of the / attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the / mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of / Quebec by the English; with the advantages / of a shorter cut to China and Japan. / Both parts illustrated with maps, and figures, / and dedicated to His Majesty K. William. / By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. / To which are added, several new discoveries in North- / America, not publish'd in the French edition.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, / H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698.
    • 1698
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1698 (Hennepin, L. New discovery / of a / vast country in America) Copy 1-2 Stuart *KC 1698 (Hennepin, L. New discovery / of a / vast country in America) Copy 3Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Discoverie of the north part of Virginia.

    • Text
    • Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms, [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
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    Text NYGB VA. G 16.1Schwarzman Building M2 - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Voyages of discovery / David Boyle.

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    • New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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  • Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... / by Henry Stevens.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Office of the American Journal of Science ; London : Henry Stevens, 1869.
    • 1869
    • 1 Item
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  • The history of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson.

    • Text
    • Dublin : Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, W. Watson, 1777.
    • 1777
  • Considerations on the great advantages which would arise from the discovery of the North West Passage [electronic resource] : and a clear account of the most practicable method for attempting that discovery / by Henry Ellis.

    • Text
    • [London : s.n.], 1750.
    • 1750
    • 1 Resource

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  • Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America 1453-1530 : with comments on the earliest charts and maps; the mistakes of the early navigators & the blunders of the geographers ... / by Henry Stevens.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Office of the American Journal of Science, 1869
    • 1869
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KF 1869 97-631Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Map Div. (Stevens, H. Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America)Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117

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  • America / Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami.

    • Cartographic
    • [Amsterdam] : J. Hondius, [1635]
    • 1635
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 15-5011Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • Voyages from Asia to America for completing the discoveries of the North west coast of America [electronic resource] : to which is prefixed A summary of voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North east passage, serving as an exploration of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by the Academy of the Sciences at Petersburgh / translated from the High Dutch of S. [sic] Muller.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1761.
    • 1761
  • The history of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and E Balfour and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1796.
    • 1796
  • Discoverie of the north part of Virginia / by John Brereton.

    • Text
    • Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press, 2000.
    • 2000-1602
    • 1 Item
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    Text ITC 02-2589Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The history of South America [electronic resource] : containing the discoveries of Columbus, the conquest of Mexico and Peru and other transactions of the Spanish in the New World / by the Rev. Mr. Cooper [i.e., Richard Johnson].

    • Text
    • London : Printed for E. Newbery, 1789.
    • 1789
  • The discoveries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 [electronic resource] / briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galvano ; corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt.

    • Text
    • Londini : Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.
    • 1601
    • 1 Resource

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  • The history of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for W. Strahan, 1777.
    • 1777
  • An account of Monsieur de la Salle's last expedition and discoveries in North America [electronic resource] / presented to the French king, and published by the Chevalier Tonti, governour of Fort St. Louis, in the province of the Illinois ; made English from the Paris original ; also the adventures of the Sieur de Montauban, captain of the French buccaneers on the coast of Guinea, in the year 1695.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for J. Tanson ... and S. Buckly ... and R. Knaplock ..., 1698.
    • 1698
    • 1 Resource

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  • The discoveries of the world from their first original unto the year of Our Lord 1555 [microform] / by Antonio Galvano, governor of Ternate ; corrected, quoted, and published in England, by Richard Hakluyt (1601) ; now reprinted with the original Portuguese text, and ed. by Vice-Admiral Bethune, C.B.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1862.
    • 1970-1862
  • An account of the European settlements in America [electronic resource] / by the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke.

    • Text
    • Boston : J.H. Wilkins & Co., 1835.
    • 1835
  • Encountering the new world, 1493 to 1800 : catalogue of an exhibition / by Susan Danforth ; with an introductory essay by William H. McNeill.

    • Text
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text E101 .D363 1991qOff-site
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  • Americae nova tabula / auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

    • Cartographic
    • [Amsterdam] : [Joan Blaeu], [1635?]
    • 1635
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 15-5009Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • A collection of authentic, useful, and entertaining voyages and discoveries [electronic resource] : digested in a chronological series / [compiled] by John Barrow, Esq.

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    • London : Printed for J. Knox, 1765.
    • 1765
    • 1 Resource

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  • A poem on a voyage of discovery [electronic resource] : undertaken by a brother of the author's : with other sonnets, &c.

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    • London : Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, 1792.
    • 1792
    • 1 Resource

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  • The English empire in America [electronic resource] : or, a view of the dominions of the Crown of England in the West-Indies. ... With an account of the discovery, situation, product, ... of these countries. To which is prefixed, a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America by the Spaniards. ... Illustrated with maps and pictures. By Robert Burton.

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    • [Dublin] : London printed: and Dublin reprinted by and for S. Fuller, 1735.
    • 1735
    • 1 Resource

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  • Chart of the N.W. coast of America, and N.E. coast of Asia : explored by Capt. Cook and Capt. Clerke, in the years 1778 & 1779.

    • Cartographic
    • [New York, N.Y.?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1780 and 1789?]
    • 1780-1789
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 15-5400Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • An historical account of the voyages and adventures of Sir Walter Raleigh [electronic resource] : with the discoveries and conquests he made for the Crown of England

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    • London : Printed, and sold by W. Boreham, ...; 1719.
    • 1719
    • 1 Resource

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  • Americae nova tabula / auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

    • Cartographic
    • [Amsterdam] : Joan Blaeu, [1635]
    • 1635
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 15-5008Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • Americae nova tabula / auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

    • Cartographic
    • [Amsterdam] : Joan Blaeu, [1635]
    • 1635
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 15-5007Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • Historia dell'India America detta altramente Francia antartica [electronic resource] / di m. Andrea Tevet ; tradotta di francese in lingua italiana, da m. Giuseppe Horologgi.

    • Text
    • In Venetia : Appresso i Gioliti, 1584.
    • 1584
    • 1 Resource

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  • The European image and mapping of America [microform] A. D. 1000-1600, by R. A. Skelton.

    • Text
    • [Minneapolis] Associates of the James Ford Bell Collection, 1964.
    • 1964
  • The History of the voyages of Christopher Columbus [electronic resource] : in order to discover America and the West Indies.

    • Text
    • Glasgow [Scotland] : Printed for R. Uris, 1761.
    • 1761
  • The Russian discoveries from the map published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg : [North America and the Russian Far East].

    • Cartographic
    • London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, 1775.
    • 1775
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic Map Div. 21-262Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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  • Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America. To which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a north east passage. Serving as an explanation of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by the Academy of sciences at Petersburgh. Tr. from the High Dutch of S. [i.e. G.] Muller ... With the addition of three new maps ... By Thomas Jefferys ...

    • Text
    • London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
    • 1764
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1764 (Muller, G. F. Voyages from Asia to America)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Antilia and America; a description of the 1424 nautical chart and the Waldseemüller globe map of 1507 in the James Ford Bell Collection at the University of Minnesota.

    • Text
    • [Minneapolis] 1955.
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
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  • The north part of America / Coolie Verner and Basil Stuart-Stubbs.

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    • Toronto : Academic Press Canada, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text Map Div. 80-58Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117

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  • Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana / edited by Joyce Lorimer.

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    • Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society of London, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

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  • Voyages of discovery / David Boyle.

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    • New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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