Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books
The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India
From the old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers. In Two Volumes Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited, with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes. Letters 1-3, 1623. This and the following volume (First Series 85) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material consists of the 1891 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1892.
The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India, Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.
With a Continuation, by Another Hand, up to his Death in 1679. Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfús Blöndal and edited by the translator. The volume covers his life and travels, 1593-1622, in Iceland, England, Denmark, White Sea, Faroes, Spitzbergen, Norway. Continued, with new editors, in Second Series 68. This is a new print-on-demand hardback...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Greek, and Edited, with Notes and Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897.
The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794
Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. Italian-born, Malaspina entered the Spanish navy in 1774. In September 1788 he and fellow-officer José Bustamante submitted...
by Charles Sturt
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. Amongst their equipment was a boat: as well as carrying out his mission of scientific investigation and mapping the topography, Sturt was convinced he...
Notes upon Russia: Being a Translation of the earliest Account of that Country, entitled Rerum Muscoviticarum commentarii, by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein
Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Psrince Vasiley Ivanovich, in the years 1517 and 1526
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The first edition of the Commentarii appeared in Vienna in 1549, but it is not clear which edition was used for this translation. Continued in First Series 12. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1851.
by J.A.J. de Villiers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Extracts from despatches by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande to the directors of the Zeeland Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, 1738-72, selected to illustrate the rise and expansion of the colony, with a detailed introduction. This volume ends with the despatch dated 15 March 1760. For May 1760...
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, by an unknown author
With some extracts from Agatharkhides 'On the Erythraean Sea'
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a short work of uncertain date and unknown authorship, written in very difficult Greek. It is concerned with the coasts of the Red Sea and |Indian Ocean and may be described as a combined trade directory and Admiralty Handbook, giving sailing directions and information...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Transcripts of certain surviving records of the voyage for Cathay sponsored by the Privy Council and intended to establish the first English trading base in the Far East. Includes Fenton's own sea journal and extracts from the official narrative of Richard Madox, for which see also Second Series 147. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959.
The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609
Documents relating to the Foundation of Jamestown and the History of the Jamestown Colony up to the Departure of Captain John Smith, last President of the Council in Virginia under the First Charter, early in October, 1609
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. During the first few years, the colony was beset by extreme...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Saris's journal, with two of his reports to the East India Company, a letter, and extracts from Purchas. Contents: Introduction.-The journal from Bantam to Japan and back to England.-App. A: Two letters written by Saris on his return. I. From the Cape, June 1, 1614. II. From Plymouth, October 17,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Journals, extracts from journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standish and Ralph Croft, with Best's correspondence and extracts from the Court minutes of the East India Company. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402, by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, Kt.
Lord of the Manors of Bethencourt, Reville, Gourret, and Grainville de Teinturière, Baron of St. Martin le Gaillard, Councillor and Chamberlain in Ordinary to Charles V and Charles VI, composed by Pierre Bontier, Monk, and Jean le Verrier, Priest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Edited, with the fifteenth-century French text. Includes title used by Galien de Bethencourt in his manuscript of 1625: Le Canarien; ou, Livre de la conqueste et conversion faicte des Canariens à la foy et religion catholique apostolique et romaine en l'an 1402: par Messire Jehan...
by George F. Barwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1618, and letters of Torres and Prado, 1607-13. Contents: New light on the discovery of Australia.-Note...