17Th Century category: 857 books
Henry Hudson the Navigator
The Original Documents in which his Career is Recorded
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Collected, partly Translated, and Annotated, with an Introduction'. The supplementary material includes the 1860 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1860.
The Prester John of the Indies
A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, written by Father Francisco Alvares Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was...
Horses, People and Parliament in the English Civil War
Extracting Resources and Constructing Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England. This book uses the supply of horses to parliamentary armies during the English Civil War to make two related points. Firstly it shows how control of resources - although vital to success - is...
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscripts. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Four narratives, edited with introduction and notes, two of them by or attributed to Mendaña's companions, Hernando Gallego and Pedro Sarmiento. This and the following volume (Second Series 8) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
Wanton Troopers
Buckinghamshire in the Civil Wars 1640-1660
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The causes of the three ‘English’ Civil Wars (1642 to 1645, 1648, and 1651) are complex and controversial – clashes of conviction, belief, and personality, and a struggle between opposing social groups and economic interests. But, whatever the focus of scholarship, many answers can be sought...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The supplementary material includes the 1894 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1895.
by Charles Lipp
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted...
The Discoveries of the World, from their First Original unto the Year of Our Lord 1555, by Antonio Galvano, governor of Ternate
Corrected, Quoted and Published in England, by Richard Hakluyt, (1601). Now Reprinted, With the Original Portuguese Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
For the edition of António Galvão, Tratado ... , used by Hakluyt and the edition here reprinted, see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series 144-5), pp. 41, 344, 603. With reproduction of the original title-pages: Portuguese edition [Lisbon] 1563; English translation, London, 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1862.
Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631
With Selections from the early Records of the Honourable the East India Company and from MSS. in the British Museum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This work contains accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris and Foxe. The supplementary material includes the 1848 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1849.
Thomas Violet, a Sly and Dangerous Fellow
Silver and Spying in Civil War London
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A Sly and Dangerous Fellow chronicles the life and adventures of Thomas Violet, an Englishman who lived from 1609-1662. During the course of his tumultuous life Violet was a goldsmith, a spy, a prisoner of war during the English Civil War, a traitor to both sides, a major economic theorist, an anti-Semite...
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.
by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The samurai were an aristocratic class of warriors who imposed and maintained peace in Japan for more than two centuries during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868. While they maintained a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, as a result of the peace the samurai themselves were transformed...
by DavidBeers Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Volume I: A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. First published: 1940. Volume II: Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation scheme, 1569, and the Knollys piracy, 1579. The main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1940.
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.