The discovery and conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto ...
Written by a gentleman of Elvas ... and tr. out of Portuguese, by Richard Hakluyt. Reprinted from the ed. of 1611. Ed. with notes and an introduction, and a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Louis Hernandez de Biedma, factor to the same, by William B. Rye.
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English
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London, Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1851.
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giue vs a great and exceeding hope of our Virginia, being so neere of one continent. Accomplished and effected, by ... Don Fernando de Soto ... London, Printed for Mathew Lownes, 1611". A reproduction of this t.-p. of 1611 is prefixed to the text in the above reprint.
a second edition of this translation. But in place of the ambiguous title of 1609, which from a casual glance might lead one to infer that the book treated of Virginia instead of Florida, Hakluyt made use of more accurate title "The worthiye and famovs history of the travailes, discouery, & conquest, of that great continent of Terra Florida, being liuely paraleld, with that of our now inhabited Viginia. As also the comodities of the said country, with diuers excellent and rich mynes ... which cannot but
Hakluyt first published his translation of the anonymous "Relaçam verdadeiro ..." under title "Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida ..." London, 1909. [!] The losses which the Virginia colony suffered during the following year, 1610, produced much discouragement. Hakluyt, as one of the chief promoters of this first English settlement in North America, with a view to tempting new adventurers and to encourage those who had already gone out as colonists, decided to issue
Introduction: p. [i]-lxvii.
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2 p.l., lxvii p., 1 l., 200, v p.
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22 cm.
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