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IBUKI has collected together and indexed electronic (mostly PDF) editions of primary sources, books, articles and study guides for history, science and literature.
Early Maps of the United States
- Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes
by Waldseemuller, Martin (c1470-1522)
The first map to use the name 'America'
Discovery and Exploration
- A History of Discovery of the East Coast of North America (Internet Archive)
By Johann Georg Kohl (1808-1878)
"a treatise on the
early discovery and cartography of the region known as the Gulf of
Maine, with references, however, to some adjacent and even somewhat
remote parts ... It remains the most important single contribution
to the history of the discovery and cartography of our Eastern coast."
quoted from Justin Winsor in The Kohl Collection (now in the
Library of Congress) of Maps Relating to America 1904.
The work is part of A History of Discovery of Maine by William
Willis 1869. which is the first volume of the Documentary History of
of Maine, published by the Historical Society of Maine.
- Sailors Narratives of Voyages along the New England Coast 1524-1624 (Internet Archive)
Notes by George Parker Winship
John Carter Brown Library
Individual Voyages
Exploring the Interior
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