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Editions

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The Divers Voyages is made up of three sections. Some copies (e.g. that in the National Library of Scotland) lack one or more of these sections, which were perhaps intended originally as separate tracts.


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   Hakluyt, Richard (1582). Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and the Ilands Adjacent unto the Same, Made First of All by Our Englishmen and Afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: With Two Mappes Annexed Hereunto. London: [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke. small quarto.
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   Hakluyt, Richard (1850). John Winter Jones, ed. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent [Hakluyt Society; 1st Ser., no. 7]. London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0-665-37538-5.

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  Hakluyt, Richard (1584). A Particuler Discourse Concerninge the Greate Necessitie and Manifolde Commodyties That Are Like to Growe to This Realme of Englande by the Westerne Discoueries Lately Attempted, Written in the Yere 1584. [London?]: [s.n.]
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  Hakluyt, Richard (1831). C[harles] Deane, ed. A Discourse Concerning Western Planting Written in the Year 1584 (Maine Historical Society. Collections, etc.; 2nd Ser.). Maine: Maine Historical Society.
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  Hakluyt, Richard (1993). David B. Quinn & Alison M. Quinn, eds. A Particuler Discourse Concerninge the Greate Necessitie and Manifolde Commodyties that are Like to Growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne Discoueries Lately Attempted ... [Hakluyt Society; Extra Ser., no. 45]. London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0-904180-35-0.

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  Hakluyt, Richard (1589). The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea or Over Land to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time within the Compasse of These 1500 Years: Divided into Three Several Parts According to the Positions of the Regions Whereunto They Were Directed; the First Containing the Personall Travels of the English unto Indæa, Syria, Arabia ... the Second, Comprehending the Worthy Discoveries of the English Towards the North and Northeast by Sea, as of Lapland ... the Third and Last, Including the English Valiant Attempts in Searching Almost all the Corners of the Vaste and New World of America ... Whereunto is Added the Last Most Renowned English Navigation Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth. London: Imprinted by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie. Folio. Reprint:

The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589), folio.

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Principall Navigations, 1589

Two alterations were made in the course of the printing and publication of this, the original edition of the Principall Navigations.

 At the last minute a narrative of Drake's circumnavigation was printed on six unpaginated leaves for insertion between p. 643 and p. 644. Headed 'The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake ...., and usually referred to as the 'Drake leaves', this exists in the majority of surviving copies of the Principall Navigations. Those without the Drake leaves had presumably been issued before these leaves had been printed.

The other alteration, which seems to have occurred after the widespread distribution of the book had begun, was to the account of Sir Jerome Bowes's embassy to Russia. The original version was cancelled and replaced by a shorter, more discreet version of events, probably at the instigation of the Muscovy Company, or the Queen's minister, Sir Francis Walsingham, or both. The section with this account, which is usually referred to as the 'Bowes leaves', exists, therefore, in two distinct states: the original headed 'The ambassage of Sir Hierome Bowes to the Emperour of Moscovie' and paginated 491-505; and the replacement, headed 'A briefe discourse of the voyage of Sir Jerome Bowes . . . printed this second time' and paginated 491-501. Either state can be found in surviving copies of the Principall Navigations.

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  Hakluyt, Richard (1965). The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation ... Imprinted at London, 1589: A Photo-Lithographic Facsimile with an Introduction by David Beers Quinn and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and with a New Index by Alison Quinn [Hakluyt Society; Extra Ser., nos. 39a & 39b]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for Hakluyt Society & Peabody Museum of Salem. 2 vols.

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The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, 3 volumes (London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598/99.1600)

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Hakluyt, Richard (1598–1600). The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Overland ... at Any Time Within the Compasse of these 1500 [1600] Yeeres, &c. London: G. Bishop, R. Newberie & R. Barker. 3 vols.; folio.

Volume I. (1598) deals with Voyages to the North and North East, and contains One hundred and nine separate narratives, from Arthur's Expedition to Norway in 517 to the celebrated Expedition to Cadiz, in the reign of good Queen Bess. Amongst the chief voyages may be mentioned: Edgar's voyage round Britain in 973; an account of the Knights of Jerusalem; Cabot's voyages; Chancellor's voyages to Russia; Elizabeth's Embassies, to Russia, Persia, &c.; the Destruction of the Armada; &c., &c.

Volume II. (1599) treats of Voyages to the South and South East, beginning with that of the Empress Helena to Jerusalem in 337. The chief narratives are those of Edward the Confessor's Embassy to Constantinople; The History of the English Guard in that City; Richard Coeur de Lion's travels; Anthony Beck's voyage to Tartary in 1330; The English in Algiers and Tunis (1400); Solyman's Conquest of Rhodes; Foxe's narrative of his captivity; Voyages to India, China, Guinea, the Canaries; the account of the Levant Company; and the travels of Raleigh, Frobisher, Grenville, &c. It contains One hundred and sixty-five separate pieces.

Volume III. (1600) has Two hundred and forty-three different narratives, commencing with the fabulous Discovery of the West Indies in 1170, by Madoc, Prince of Wales. It contains the voyages of Columbus; of Cabot and his Sons; of Davis, Smith, Frobisher, Drake, Hawkins; the Discoveries of Newfoundland, Virginia, Florida, the Antilles, &c.; Raleigh's voyages to Guiana; Drake's great Voyage; travels in South America, China, Japan, and all countries in the West; an account of the Empire of El Dorado, &c.

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  Hakluyt, Richard (1884–1890). E[dmund] Goldsmid, ed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid. 16 vols.

This is a 16-volume work on the history of English exploration and seafaring.
It has digitized in page image form by the Early Canadiana Online project,
from a microfilmed copy of a print edition published in Edinburgh
by E. and G. Goldsmid between 1885 and 1890.

Page images from the Internet Archive


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  Hakluyt, Richard (1903-1905). The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, etc. [Hakluyt Society; Extra Ser., nos. 1–12]. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons for the Hakluyt Society. 12 vols.

The Voyages of The English Nation to America before the year 1600 from Hakluyt's Collection of Voyages (1598-1600)
Edited By Edmund Goldsmid F.R.H.S., F.S.A (Scot.)
Sdinburgh E & G Goldsmid
Vol. 1. Voyage of Sebastian Cabota
        Voyages of Master Frobisher
        Voyages of John Davis
        Voyages of Nicolas and Anthony Zeno to the Yles of Frisland
        Voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to Newfoundland, 1583
Vol. 2. Sir George Peckham's report
        Discourse upon the intended voyage by Capt. Carlile
        Voyage of Charles Leigh
        Voyages of Jacques Cartier
        Discourse of western planting by R. Hakluyt
        Voyages to Virginia by order of Sir Walter Raleigh
        Report of the new found land of Virginia by Thomas Heriot
        Relation of John de Verrazano
        Voyages to Florida of Ren Landonniere, John Ribault and Capt. Gourgues
        Description of Florida by Ferd. de Soto
Vol. 3. Soto's Description of Florida (contd.)
        Voyages to the 15 provinces of New Mexico and Quivira and Cibola
        Voyages to Mexico and New Spain by English men
        Voyages to Brazil
        Two voyages to the River Plate
        Discovery of the Gulf of California
Vol. 4. Navigation and discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh
        Principal voyages of the English nation 
         to the isles of Trinadad, Margarita etc
Cornell
 Vol 1 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024759387#page/n10/mode/1up
 Vol 2 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024759395#page/n10/mode/1up
 Vol 3 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024759403#page/n10/mode/1up
 Vol 4 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924072678059#page/n10/mode/1up

Roberts 
 Vol 1 https://archive.org/stream/voyagesofenglish01hakluoft#page/n8/mode/1up
 vol 2 https://archive.org/stream/voyagesofenglish02hakl#page/n8/mode/1up
 Vol 4 https://archive.org/stream/voyagesofenglish04hakluoft#page/n9/mode/1up

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