Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
An account of the East India Company's fourth voyage; with an appendix containing William Revett's 1609 account of the Seychelles, and reports on other places by merchants and seamen of the same period. Appendices: A. William Revett's account of the Seychelles. B. William Revett's narrative of events...
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354
Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China. On a separate voyage he crossed the Sahara to the Muslim lands of West Africa. His journeys are estimated to have covered over 75,000 miles and he is the only medieval...
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta
Reprinted from the English Translated Edition of Edward Grimeston, 1604 Volume I: The Natural History (Books I, II, III and IV)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1880.
The History of the great and mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof
Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, and now Reprinted from the early Translation of R. Parke
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From the 1588 black-letter edition, after the 1586 Madrid edition. The supplementary material includes the 1852 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Antonio de Morga was an official of the colonial bureaucracy in Manila and could consequently draw upon much material that would otherwise have been inaccessible. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely...
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
This forms part of the original Book II of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 54. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918.
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes. For the previous edition, see First Series 19 (1854). The additional material includes an account by Edmund Scott of events at Bantam, 1603-05, and his description of Java. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1943.
The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained
Written by Al-Hassan Ibn-Mohammed Al-Wezaz Al-Fasi, a Moor, baptised as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus. Done into English in the Year 1600, by John Pory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Containing Book I of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the following two volumes (First Series 93 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896.
by Lord Stanley of Alderley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is translated 'from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and other Contemporary Writers. Accompanied by Original Documents, with Notes and an Introduction'. It includes the log-book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro, Pigafetta's treatise on navigation and his account of the voyage, Gaspar Correa's account,...
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant....
The Voyage of Sir Robert Dudley, afterwards styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland, to the West Indies, 1594-1595
Narrated by Capt. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, Master
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899.
A New Account of East India and Persia. Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681, by John Fryer
Volumes I-III
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698. This volume, edited with notes and an introduction, contains Letters I-III. Continued in Second Series 20 and 39. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1909.
by John Winter Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, with a Preface, by John Winter Jones, Esq., F.S.A. And Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by George Percy Badger. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1863.
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
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Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Original Arabic and Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and an Introduction, continuing the History down to 1870. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1871.