Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
INTRODUCTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The “Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America”, was the first publication of the active-minded and public-spirited clergyman from whose name the Hakluyt Society has derived its designation. To many members the question will naturally suggest itself, why, having thought the name worthy adoption, the work should have been so long postponed. The following is the explanation of this circumstance. When the Hakluyt Society was instituted, the first work proposed for publication was the “Divers Voyages” but it having been ascertained that the late intelligent American bookseller, Mr. Rich, had contemplated publishing a fac-simile reprint, and that he had had cut a fount of black-letter type for that purpose, application was made to him, in order to ascertain whether he still proposed carrying that design into effect. Mr. Rich, in reply, stated that he was willing to leave the work in the hands of the Society, provided the Council would print it as he himself had proposed to do, and would purchase the type he had had cast for it. As it was not deemed advisable to adopt this proposition, and as a separate publication by the Society would have interfered prejudicially with Mr. Rich's prior right, it was considered proper to forego what would certainly have been the most appropriate leader of their series, and to adopt some other work.
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- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands AdjacentCollected and Published by Richard Hakluyt, pp. i - cxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1850