Download or read book Catalogue of the First Portion of the Extensive Varied Collections of Rare Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of America written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the First Portion of the Extensive Varied Collections of Rare Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of America: Comprising the Great Collections of Voyages Travels of De Bry (in Latin and German) Hulsius Thevenot Purchas and Hakluyt With Early Separate Voyages of the Dutch English and French Navigators; Early American History and Literature; Burn's Autograph Poem Companies, Dutch and English; the English and French Colonies in North America; Canada, New England, New Netherlands, Penn sylvania and Virginia; Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and other parts Of Spanish America; China, Japan, India, Australia, the Philippines, the Moluccas, and the Isles Of the Seas Greenland, Iceland and the Northern Regions generally. Besides these there will be found many uncommon books relating to the early history Of America; the American Revolution; and the war Of 1812, all pertaining alike to American and English History; also examples of early printing in America, especially New England, and a great variety Of miscellaneous American Literature, political, historical, geo graphical, genealogical, local and general. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.