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A trve discovrse of the late voyages of discouerie for the finding of a passage to Cathaya by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall, deuided into three bookes : in the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage : wherein also by the vvay is sette out a geographicall description of the worlde, and what partes thereof haue bin discouered by the nauigations of the Englishmen : also, there are annexed certayne reasons, to proue all partes of the worlde habitable, with a generall mappe adioyned : in the second, is set out his second voyage, vvith the aduentures and accidents thereof : in the thirde, is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage, with a seuerall description of the countrey and the people there inhabiting : with a particular card therevnto adioyned of Meta Incognita, so farre forth as the secretes of the voyage may permit / [by George Beste].

Author/creator Best, George, d. 1584
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon : Imprinted by H. Bynnyman, 1578 (H. Bynnyman)
Description[16], 52, 39, 68, [2] p. [2] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill., maps (1 fold.), coats of arms ; 18 cm.
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)
Variant title True discourse of the late voyages of discoverie for the finding of a passage to Cathaya by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteColonization.
Local note2012AG33700.
Local noteColonization.
Local note2012AG33700.
General note"Epistle dedicatorie" signed: George Beste.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 5051.

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