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Hakluyt Society, First

15 total works

Cover of Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1891 volume contains two sixteenth-century accounts, one Spanish and one German, of the exploration and conquest of the basin of the River Plate, which includes parts of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. The account of Ulrich Schmidt was written as a reply to that of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the deposed governor of the area, and presents a radically different version of events. Both narratives reveal that the early Spanish conquerors of South America were riven by dissent and ambition.

Cover of The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil

Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition of the author's Warhafftige Historia und Beschreiburg ejner Landtschallte der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newnwelt America gelegen.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.

Cover of The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies

The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of the Lancaster voyages, see Second Series 85.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877.

Cover of The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability of a North-West Passage.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce 'The Map of Coast of Arabia and entrance to the Pendant Gulf' which appeared on p.xliii of the first edition of this volume.

Cover of Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622, with Correspondence

Ends December 1617. Continued to 1622 in the following volume (First Series 67).

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.

Cover of Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527, by Father Francisco Alvarez

Translated from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and an introduction. For a revised edition, see Second Series 114, 115.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881.

Cover of Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant

The supplementary material consists of the 1892 annual report.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1893 (1892).

Cover of The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands

The account relating to 1609-1622 by Nathaniel Butler, edited, from a MS. in the Sloane Collection, British Museum. Additional documents include a note on constitutional procedure at the first General Assembly held at St George's, 1 August 1620.

The supplementary material consists of the 1882 annual report.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1882.

Cover of The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402, by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, Kt.

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 a la foy et religion catholique apostolique et romaine en l'an 1402: par Messire Jehan de Bethencourt ... Compose par Pierre Bontier ... et Jean Le Verrier. Based upon the Bergeron edition collated, by M. d'Avezac, with an early manuscript in the possession of Madame de Mont Ruffet.
French text at foot of page.The supplementary material consists of the 1870 and 1871 annual reports.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1872.

Cover of Travels to Tana and Persia, by Josafa Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini

Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., and Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Originally bound together with 49b but separately paginated.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.

Cover of The Hawkins' Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I

A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins' grandfather William, of his father Sir John, and of his cousin William Hawkins, from manuscripts and printed editions.

The supplementary material consists of the 1878 annual report.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1878.

Cover of Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Straits of Magellan

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.

Cover of Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux

The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS' which originally appeared as Volume 79(b) in the series. The two sets of directions were originally bound together but separately paginated. The first contains the text of the 1638 English translation, A learned treatise of globes by John Chilmead (but 'usually attributed to Edmund Chilmead with apparent corrections'); the title-page of the Latin original is dated 1594. The 'Sailing Directions' are edited, with an account of the MS., by James Gairdner; with a Glossary by Edward Delmar Morgan.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.

Cover of The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427

Translated from the Heidelberg MS edited in 1859 by Professor Karl Friedrich Neumann, by Commander J. Buchan Telfer, R.N., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. With Notes by Professor P. Bruun of the Imperial University of South Russia, at Odessa, and a Preface, Introduction and Notes by the Translator and Editor.

The supplementary material consists of the 1879 annual report.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1879.

Cover of The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de Leon

Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, continuing the narrative from First Series 33.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.