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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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1903) Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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 ...
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- London, H. Stevens, Son & Stiles; St. Louis, B. Herder, 1903.
- 1903
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAL (Fischer, J. Discoveries of the Norsemen in America) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAL (Fischer, J. Discoveries of the Norsemen in America) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1906) v. 7-12 Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1906) v. 1-6 Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Stevenson, E. L. Maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America. 1906) text Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
The eyes of discovery; the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers.
- Text
- Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950]
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E162.B3 1950 Off-site The eyes of discovery; the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers.
- Text
- Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950]
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E162 .B3 1950 Off-site 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic 1059.88q Oversize Off-site 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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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY110048215&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplShedding the veil : mapping the European discovery of America and the world / Thomas Suárez.
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- Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. E121 .S87 1992 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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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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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E141.V5 1967 Off-site 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.
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- London : [s.n.], 1644.
- 1644
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102903240&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplA 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div. 23-1214 Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Desk Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530.
- Text
- New York, B. Franklin [1970]
- 1970-1869
- 1 Item
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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.
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- London, Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, / H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698.
- 1698
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location 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 3 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Discoverie of the north part of Virginia.
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- Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms, [1966]
- 1966
- 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 12-321 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530 ... / by Henry Stevens.
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- New Haven : Office of the American Journal of Science ; London : Henry Stevens, 1869.
- 1869
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 973.1 St43 Off-site 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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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103019419&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplHistorical 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.
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- New Haven : Office of the American Journal of Science, 1869
- 1869
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1869 97-631 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. (Stevens, H. Historical and geographical notes on the earliest discoveries in America) Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
America / Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami.
- Cartographic
- [Amsterdam] : J. Hondius, [1635]
- 1635
- 1 Item
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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.
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- 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.
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- Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press, 2000.
- 2000-1602
- 1 Item
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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.
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- Londini : Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.
- 1601
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103087115&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe history of America [electronic resource] / by William Robertson.
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- 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.
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- London : Printed for J. Tanson ... and S. Buckly ... and R. Knaplock ..., 1698.
- 1698
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY101609157&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E101 .D363 1991q Off-site Americae nova tabula / auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
- Cartographic
- [Amsterdam] : [Joan Blaeu], [1635?]
- 1635
- 1 Item
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c4661990-f8bf-0132-88d1-58d385a7bbd0Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div. 15-5009 Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person.
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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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY104856606&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplA 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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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY105087120&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe 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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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0249501200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplChart 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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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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- [Amsterdam] : Joan Blaeu, [1635]
- 1635
- 1 Item
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Americae nova tabula / auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
- Cartographic
- [Amsterdam] : Joan Blaeu, [1635]
- 1635
- 1 Item
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c89e0e60-f8c7-0132-1ed4-58d385a7bbd0Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div. 15-5007 Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person.
Historia dell'India America detta altramente Francia antartica [electronic resource] / di m. Andrea Tevet ; tradotta di francese in lingua italiana, da m. Giuseppe Horologgi.
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- In Venetia : Appresso i Gioliti, 1584.
- 1584
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102672424&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe European image and mapping of America [microform] A. D. 1000-1600, by R. A. Skelton.
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- [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.
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- 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div. 21-262 Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person.
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 ...
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- London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
- 1764
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1764 (Muller, G. F. Voyages from Asia to America) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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.
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- [Minneapolis] 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. (Minnesota. University. Library. James Ford Bell Collection. Antilia and America) Offsite The north part of America / Coolie Verner and Basil Stuart-Stubbs.
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- Toronto : Academic Press Canada, c1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. 80-58 Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text G460 .B79 2011 Off-site
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