Includes bibliographical references.
On half-title: Editor: N.M. Penzer. The preface is signed by him.
Includes facsimile of original t.p.: The discoverie of the large, rich, and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana, with a relation of the great and Golden Citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh Knight, Captaine of her Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden of the Stanneries, and her Highnesse Lieutenant generall of the Countie of Cornewall. Imprinted at London by Robert Robinson, 1596.
Includes facsimile of a map of Guiana, with the courses of the Orinoco, Marañon or Amazons, drawn by or for Sir Walter Raleigh circa 1595. (British Museum, Add ms 17940, A)
"An abstract taken out of certain Spanyardes letters concerning Guiana and the countries lying upon the great riuer of Orenoque; with certaine reportes also touching the same" [letters taken at sea by Captain George Popham, 1594]: p. [77]-85.
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