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Acarete du Biscay. Relation des voyages du sieur...dans la rivière de la Plate, et de là par terre au Pérou (Paris, 1696, ed. J-P Duviols, Strasbourg, 1970), An account of a voyage up the River de la Plata, and thence over land to Peru, in Voyages and discoveries in South America (London, 1698)
Acosta, José de. Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Barcelona, 1591), The naturall and morall history of the East and West Indies (London, 1604)
Acuña, Cristóbal de. Nuevo descubrimiento del gran río de las Amazonas (Madrid, 1641), An historical and geographical description of the great country and river of the Amazones in America (London, 1661), and in Voyages and discoveries in South America (London, 1698)
Ayres, Philip. The voyages and adventures of Capt. Bartholomew Sharp (London ,1684)
Barba, Alvaro Alonso. Arte de los metales (Madrid, 1640), The first book of the art of mettals. The second book of the art of mettals (London, 1669)
Barlowe, Roger. A briefe summe of geographie, ed. E. G. R. Taylor (Hakluyt Society, series II, no. lxix, London, 1932)
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. Theatrum orbis terrarum sive Atlas novus (Amsterdam, 1635-55)
Blome, Richard. A geographical description of the four parts of the world (London, 1670)
Bohun, Edmund. A geographical dictionary...of all the countries, provinces... of the whole world (London, 1688)
Botero, Giovanni. Le relationi universali (Rome, 1591), The travellers breviat, or an historical description of the most famous kingdomes in the world (London, 1601)
Cieza de León, Pedro. Parte primera de la chrónica del Perú (Seville, 1553), The 17 years travels of Peter de Cieza through the mighty kingdom of Peru (1709), in John Stevens, A new collection of voyages and travels (London, 1708-10)
Clarke, Samuel. A geographical description of all the countries in the knowne world (London, 1657)
Dampier, William. A new voyage round the world (London, 1697; ed. J. Masefield, 2 vols, London, 1906; London, Argonaut Press, 1927; London, Hummingbird Press, 1998)
Davenant, William. The cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (London, 1658)
Dryden, John. The Indian Queen (London, 1665)
Duval, Pierre. Le monde, ou la Géographie universelle (Paris, 1670), Geographia Universalis. The present state of the whole world (London, 1685)
Eden, Richard. The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India (London, 1555)
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Exquemelin, Alexander O. De Americaensche Zee-rovers (Amsterdam, 1678), Bucaniers of America (London, 1684, 1685)
Fage, Robert. Cosmography, or a description of the whole world (London, 1658)
Fernández de Enciso, Martín. Suma de geographia (Seville, 1519), A briefe description of the portes, creekes, bayes, and havens, of the Weast India (London, 1578)
Fletcher, Francis. The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (London, 1628, ed. W. S. W. Vaux, Hakluyt Society, series I, no. xvi, London, 1854)
Froger, François. Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696 et 1697 aux côtes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Brésil, Cayenne et îles Antilles (Paris, 1698), A relation of a voyage to the coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles (London, 1698)
Garcilaso de la Vega. Historia general del Perú (Córdoba, 1617) and Primera parte de los comentarios reales (Lisbon, 1609), The royal commentaries of Peru (London, 1688)
Gardyner, George. Description of the New World, or America islands and continent (London, 1650)
Gilbert, Humphrey. A discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia (London, 1576)
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Hakluyt, Richard. A discourse of the commodity of the taking of the Straight of Magellanus (London, 1579-80), "Discourse of western planting" [1584], and various "Notes", in The original writings and correspondence of the two Richard Hakluyts, ed. E. G. R. Taylor (Hakluyt Society, series II, nos lxxvi-lxxvii, London, 1935)
Hakluyt, Richard. Divers voyages touching the discoverie of America, and the islands adjacent to the same (London, 1582)
Hakluyt, Richard. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation (London, 1589), The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English nation (London, 1598-1600, Dent, London, 1927-28)
Hawkins, Richard. The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his voiage into the South Sea, 1593 (London, 1622, ed. C. R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, series I, no. lvii, London, 1877)
Laet, Johannes de. Nieuwe Wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West Indien (Leiden, 1625)
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (Seville, 1552), The Spanish colonie, or briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies (London, 1583)
L'Hermite, Jacques. A true relation of the fleete which went under the Admirall Jaquis Le Hermite through the Straight of Magellane (London, 1625)
Linschoten, Jan H. van. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van J. H. van Linschoten, naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (Amsterdam, 1596), John Huighen van Linschoten, his discours of voyages into ye East and West Indies (London, 1598)
López de Gómara, Francisco. La historia de las Indias y conquista de México (Saragossa, 1552), The pleasant historie of the conquest of Weast India, now called New Spayne (London, 1578)
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Mercator, Gerard. Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi (3 parts, Duisberg, 1585, 1589, 1595), Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas, ed. Jodocus Hondius (London, 1635)
Morden, Robert. Geography rectified: or, a description of the world (London, 1688)
Münster, Sebastian. Cosmographei oder beschreibung aller Lander (Basle, 1544), A Treatyse of the Newe India (London, 1553)
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Narborough, John. An account of several late voyages and discoveries. A journal kept by Sir John Narborough (London, 1694)
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Ordóñez de Cevallos, Pedro. Viage del mundo (Madrid, 1614)
Ortelius, Abraham. Theatrum orbis terrarum (Antwerp, 1570), The theatre of the whole world (London, 1606)
Ovalle, Alonso de. Histórica relación del reyno de Chile (Rome, 1646), An historical relation of the kingdom of Chile, in A. and J. Churchill, A collection of voyages and travels (4 vols, London, 1706), vol. III, pp. 1-154.
Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de. La historia general de las Indias (Seville, 1535)
Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes (London, 1625)
Raveneau de Lussan. Journal du voyage fait à la mer du sud (Paris, 1689), Journal of a voyage to the South Sea (London, 1699)
Schouten, Willem. Journal ofte beschrijvinghe van der wonderlicke reyse (Amsterdam, 1618), The relation of a wonderful voiage (London, 1619)
Stafforde, Robert. A geographical and anthologicall description of all the empires and Kingdomes ... of this terrestrial globe (London, 1618)
Thevet, André. Les singularitez de la France antarctique (Paris, 1557), The new found worlde, or Antarctike (London, 1568)
Wafer, Lionel. A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America (London, 1699, ed. L. E. E. Joyce, Hakluyt Society, series II, no. lxxiii, Oxford, 1934)
Waller, William. An essay on the value of mines (London, 1698)
Wytfliet, Cornelis. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum (Louvain, 1597)
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Peter T. Bradley Emeritus Professor of Latin American History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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