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Subject Terms Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565–1763.

1. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:: 1609
Physical Description:: [8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast / collected from the best authorities by William Roberts ; illustrated by a general map, and some particular plans, together with a geographical description of that country, by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:: Roberts, William, active 1763
Date:: MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 102 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts