17Th Century category: 857 books
English Students at Leiden University, 1575-1650
'Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs'
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The oldest and most renowned Dutch university, Leiden was an attractive proposition for travelling foreign students in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Alongside offering an excellent academic program and outstanding facilities, Leiden was also able to cater to the desires of noble students...
The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590
Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative...
New Worlds Reflected
Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in physical and metaphorical journeys, processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Significant in the history of Anglo-Spanish relations and of English ventures was Drake's expedition to the West Indies in 1585-86. His raids on Spanish towns on both sides of the Atlantic were aimed not only to gather treasure but to bring a military challenge to the empire of Philip II. The voyage...
The English-American
A New Survey of the West Indies, 1648
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First published in 1928.
'Can be safely named unique and can never quite lose its value.' Times Literary Supplement.
'This should be bought not borrowed.' Saturday Review
The publication in 1648 of the first authentic account of the provinces of New Spain and Central America by a well-known and educated...
The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his Agency in Bengal
As well as on his Voyage Out and Return Overland (1681-1687)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel Henry Yule. The volume is continued in First Series 75 and 78. The whole work contains: I. The diary, with index.--II. Notices regarding Sir William...
Ottoman Explorations of the Nile
Evliya Çelebi’s Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time—c. 1685—and both by the same man.
Evliya...
Europeans in West Africa, 1540-1560
Documents to illustrate the nature and scope of Portuguese enterprise in West Africa, the abortive attempt of Castilians to create an empire there, and the early English voyages to Barbary and Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 87) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume contains Spanish official documents, depositions by prisoners, documents relating to Nuño da Silva, etc., translated and edited. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1914. Owing to technical constraints the contemporary engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake which appeared in the original edition of the book is not included.
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Volume I. (Chapters I-XL) With an Introduction on the Life and Writings of the Chronicler
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Contains the translation and edition of chapters 1-40 of the chronicle, continued in First Series 100. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896.
The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant,1584-1602
With his Autobiography and Selections from his Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Written 1580-90, first published at Seville in 1594, translated with notes and an introduction. The edition includes a bibliography of the Canary Islands, 1341-1907, pp. 187-203. Translation of books I-III, with facsimiles of original t.p. and colophon, of the author's: Del origen y milagros de la...
by Arthur Hassall
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
It seems inevitable that Mazarin will always suffer by comparison with Richelieu. The latter, who has been described as the greatest political genius which France has ever produced, appeals to the imagination by the firmness and the success of his policy. The ability with which he managed the foreign...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart...