A Discovrse of a Discouerie for a New Passage to Cataia.

Title: A discovrse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia.Author: Gilbert, Humphrey, SirPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04779900CollectionID: CTRG04-B384PublicationDate: 15760101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Title within ornamental border; verso blank. 'George Gascoigne esquire to the reader," 8.1. "A prophetical sonet of the same George Gascoine, vpon the commendable trauaile which Sir Humfrey Gilbert hath disclosed in this worke," 1.1.; verso blank. "A letter of Sir Humfrey Gilbert, knight ... concering the discourse of this discouerie: 3 1. Table, 1. l. folding map. text, 29 unnumb. 1. "Faultes escaped in the printing," 1.l. on verson, colophon: "these bokes are to be solde at the shop of Richard Iones, at the VVest ende of Saint Paules church, betweene the brasen poller and Lollarads tower" (Preceded by globe with legend: Tvpiter desperatvr qvdqvid fieri potest.) "A general map, made onelye for the particvler declaration of this discovery" (heart-shaped projection, with the author's coat of arms and legend "Quid non?")Collation: 14 p., [60] p., [1] fold. leaf of plates: map; 19 cm