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A Collection of authentic, useful and entertaining voyages and discoveries digested in a chronological series / compiled by John Barrow.  London : Printed for J. Knox, 1765. 264 pages : illustrations, maps.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK I5 B27 - Akins

Performed by the following celebrated commanders, viz. Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama ... Volume I.

Barrow, John, fl. 1756.

Voyages and travels
Voyages around the world
America — Discovery and exploration.

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Wynne, John Huddlestone

A general history of the British Empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris / by Mr. Wynne i.e. John Huddlestone Wynne.  London : Printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770. 514 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 H31 - Akins

Fortia facta patrum ... Virg. Aen. I. 641.

America — Discovery and exploration
United States — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France).

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Baxter, James Phinney

A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc / by James Phinney Baxter.  New York : Dodd, Mead, 1906. ix, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 C24 B33

Limited edition of 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper.

America — Discovery and exploration — French.

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Biddle, Richard

A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery London : Hurst, Chance, 1831. 333 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 C11 - Akins

Illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first publishedition Attributed to Richard Biddle--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Explorers — America
America — Discovery and exploration — Italian.

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Biddle, Richard

A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery : illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first published 2nd ed. London : Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1832. 333 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5058 C1 M533 - Open Shelf

Includes some text in Latin.

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Raynal, Guillaume Thomas

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies / by the Abbé Raynal ; newly translated from the French by J.O. Justamond.  2nd ed. London : A. Strahan, 1798. 6 v. : front. ( port.) 7 fold. maps ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21

Douglass, William

A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass.  Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3762 - Open Shelf

Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.

United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.

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Vancouver, George

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence  A new edition, with corrections, illustrated with nineteen views and charts. London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. 6 v. : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 V23 - Akins

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Champlain, Samuel de

Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois : Champlain explores America, 1603-1616 : being The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) / narrated by himself ; translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with The voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes ; edited with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.  Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC332 A3 2000 - Open Shelf

Originally published in 2 v., New York : A.S. Barnes, 1906. Reformated into one unabridged volume. Translation of: Les voyages de la Nouvelle France.

Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908
Bourne, Annie Nettleton.

First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration — French
New France — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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Fell, Barry

America B.C. : ancient settlers in the New World / Barry Fell.  New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1977, 1976. viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E103 F317

Arciniegas, Germán

Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís.  [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3

Robinson, Conway

An account of discoveries in the west until 1519, and of voyages to and along the Atlantic coast of North America : from 1520 to 1573 / prepared for the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society by Conway Robinson.  Richmond, Va. : Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, 1848. 491 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F5 R65 - Akins

Includes bibliographical references.

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Burke, Edmund

An account of the European settlements in America : in six parts The second edition, with improvements. London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. 2 v., 324 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F5 B91 - Akins

Attributed to Edmund Burke--National union catalog pre-1956 imprints. Also attributed to William Burke--Dictionary of national biography. Each part contains an accurate description of the settlements in it, their extent, climate, productions, trade

Burke, William, 1730-1798.

America — Discovery and exploration — Portuguese
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.

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Casas, Bartolome de las

An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relations ... with the propositions offered to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West Indies / by Bartolome de las Casas.  London : D. Brown, 1699. 248 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F6 C26 - Akins

America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.

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Stirling, William Alexander

An encouragement to colonies Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. 47 pages : map. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5226 A379 E56 1968 - Open Shelf

Original t.pages has imprint: London, Printed by William Stansby, 1624.

Colonies
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — English.

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Pohl, Frederick Julius

Atlantic crossings before Columbus [1st ed.] New York : Norton, 1961. 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E103 P75

Hoffman, Bernard Gilbert

Cabot to Cartier : sources for a historical ethnography of northeastern North America, 1497-1550 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N81 H68

Weare, G. E.

Cabot's discovery of North America by G.E. Weare London : J. MacQueen, 1897. x, 343 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W37

Includes index.

America — Discovery and exploration — British.

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Armstrong, Joe C. W.

Champlain / Joe C.W. Armstrong.  Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xviii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 A75 - Open Shelf

Columbus and Cook : the story of their lives, voyages, and discoveries London : W. & R. Chambers, 1896-. 152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 C72 C77

The story of Columbus and Cook.

Voyages around the world
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish
Oceania — Discovery and exploration — English.

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Kohl, Johann Georg

Descriptive catalogue of those maps, charts and surveys relating to America, which are mentioned in Vol. III of Hakluyt's great work / by J.G. Kohl.  Washington, (D.C.) : Henry Polkinhorn, 1857.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 H15d - Akins

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Hakluyt, Richard

Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent / collected and published by Richard Hakluyt ; edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Winter Jones.  London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1850. 171 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 H15 - Akins

Original issued in series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.

Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881.

Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration
Northwest Passage.

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McCann, Franklin T.

English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann.  New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13

DeCosta, B. F.

Explorations of the North American coast previous to the voyage of Henry Hudson

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 N21

In The national magazine Volume 15, no. 1 (Nov. 1891, pages [1]-26.

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Jaenen, Cornelius J.

Friend and foe : aspects of French-Amerindian cultural contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cornelius J. Jaenen.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5064 J22 - Open Shelf

Winner of the Sainte-Marie prize in History, 1973, Historical Sites Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Includes index.

First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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