17Th Century category: 857 books
by Robert J. Knecht
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at best a self-indulgent, ineffectual ruler, and at worst a debauched tyrant responsible for a series of catastrophic political blunders, his reputation has long been a poor one. Yet recent scholarship...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This edition, with introduction and notes, includes: The worldes hydrographical Discription (1595), The seamans secrets (1607), a list of works on navigation available before and during the reign of Elizabeth, and her latters patent to Adrian Gilbert and others for the exploration of a North-West...
Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Castilla del Oro
And of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua. Written by the Adelantado Pascual de Andagoya
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, from the Text written c. 1514. The supplementary material includes the 1865 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1865.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition...
Peter Floris, his Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe, 1611-1615
The Contemporary Translation of his Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Ottoman-Venetian Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to...
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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.
Spanish Documents concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527-1568
Selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 71, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the "Portion of a map by Diego Homem showing Central America and the West Indies, 1568" which appeared in the first edition of the work.
Boyle Studies
Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged, but the complexity and eclecticism of his ideas has also become increasingly apparent. This volume presents an important group of studies of Boyle by...
by A. G. Macdonell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed account of the Napoleonic Wars by A. G. Macdonell. A. G. Macdonell (1895-1941) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. His most famous works include: "The Autobiography of a Cad", arguably amongst the funniest books ever written; "Lords and Masters", a blunt and...
by Alexandra Kess
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
One of the major challenges faced by the emergent Protestant faith was how to establish itself in a hitherto Catholic world. A key way it found to achieve this was to create a common identity through the fashioning of history, emphasising Protestantism's legitimacy and authority. In this study, the...
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.
Censorship and Civic Order in Reformation Germany, 1517-1648
'Printed Poison & Evil Talk'
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The history of the European Reformation is intimately bound-up with the development of printing. With the ability of the printed word to distribute new ideas, theologies and philosophies widely and cheaply, early-modern society was quick to recognise the importance of being able to control what was...