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Subject Terms America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800.

1. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

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Creator:: Galvão, António, -1557
Date:: 1601
Physical Description:: [12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

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Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

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Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:: [8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

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Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts