Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1905.
The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
Reprinted from 'Purchas his Pilgrimes'
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Adventures between 1589 and 1607, edited, with notes and a concise history of Kongo and Angola. With part of Anthony Knivet's account of his activities in the same countries, from the same source. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
by Sir William Foster, Sir Evan Cotton, L.M. Anstey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In addition to the main text, with introduction and notes, there is 'added Burnell's narrative of his adventures in Bengal, With an Introduction by Sir William Foster, and Notes by Sir Evan Cotton, C.I.E., and L.M. Anstey'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1933.
The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543, as narrated by Castanhoso
With Some Contemporary Letters, the Short Account of Bermudez, and Certain Extracts from Correa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Edited and Including a bibliography of Abyssinia, pp. civ-cxxxii. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1902. Owing to technical constraints the map which appeared in the original edition of the book is not included.
The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1
Preceded by an Extract from Mynheer Jacob Roggeveen's Official Log of his Discovery and Visit to Easter Island in 1722
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Journals, instructions, minutes, and despatches, transcribed, translated and edited, with an extract from the 1825 journal of Lieut. George Peard, of H.M.S. Blossom. Preface by Cyprian Bridge. Includes a bibliography of 'Easter Island and the Pacific Ocean', pp. 147-58. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1908.
by William Thomas, S.A. Roy, Lord Stanley of Alderley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., and Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. Originally bound together with 49b but separately paginated. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.
Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia
A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from early Manuscript Maps, illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From Spanish and Dutch sources and relating to Spanish and Dutch enterprises, edited, with an introduction - a separate pamphlet dated 1861 and containing an article by Major on the discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.
Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World
And the Arms and Devices of each Land and Lordship, or of the Kings and Lords who possess them. Written by a Spanish Franciscan in the Middle of the XIV Century. Published for the First Time with Notes by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, in 1877
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translation of the Libro del Conoscimiento de todos los reynos. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1912.
The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies
With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of...
The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt., in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593
Reprinted from the Edition of 1622
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is edited 'with only such slight alterations as were necessary where the sense of the author had been obviously marred by a misprint'. Original index only. For a second edition see First Series 57. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1847.
The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32
With Narratives of the earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and others Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Containing part of the text of North-west Fox, London, 1635. This and the following volume (First series 89) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material consists of the 1893 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1894.
by Donald Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Annotated by William F. Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (Retd.), with Further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson. The main text is a translation of: Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y svccession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de vn viage hecho por...
by Sir Clements R. Markham
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled...
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619
As Narrated in his Journal and Correspondence. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899. Owing to technical constraints the portrait of Sir Thomas Roe is not included in the e-book edition of this work.