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Established in 1846, the Society has to date published over 350 volumes. All editions are in English. Although a substantial number of the Society's past editions relate to British ventures, with documentary sources in English, the majority concern non-British enterprises and are based on texts in languages other than English. Material originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French or Dutch has regularly appeared, material in Russian, Greek, Latin, Ethiopic, Chinese, Persian or Arabic occasionally.
All editions contain an introduction and scholarly annotation, giving both the general reader and the student a degree of assistance in understanding the material and providing guidance on the relevance of the episodes described, within the context of global development and world history. Volumes are often generously furnished with maps and contemporary illustrations.
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Edited
By Bolton Corney
July 28, 2010
The 1606 title-page begins: The last East-Indian voyage. The appendix includes commissions, letters of James I addressed to foreign rulers, and other documents. For a second edition, see Second Series 88. The supplementary material includes the 1856 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand ...
Edited
By Albert Hastings Markham
July 28, 2010
This edition, with introduction and notes, includes: The worldes hydrographical Discription (1595), The seamans secrets (1607), a list of works on navigation available before and during the reign of Elizabeth, and her latters patent to Adrian Gilbert and others for the exploration of a North-West ...
Edited
By Miller Christy
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....
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
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...
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
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...
Edited
By Richard Henry Major
July 28, 2010
The Italian text of the Zenos' narrative (compiled from the letters of Nicolò Zeno by Nicolò Zeno the Younger), and the Danish and Latin texts of Ivar Bardsen's description of Greenland in the fourteenth century, with English translation. Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. This ...
Edited
By William Sandys Wright Vaux
January 27, 2017
The work is edited with 'Appendices illustrative of the Same Voyage', and introduction, from the 1628 edition 'collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher', collated with British Library, Sloane MS 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854....
Edited
By George Percy Badger, John Winter Jones
July 28, 2010
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....
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
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. ...
By William Thomas, S.A. Roy, Lord Stanley of Alderley
July 28, 2010
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 ...
By Edward Maunde Thompson
April 03, 2017
Volume I: Ends December 1617. Volume II: Years 1618-1622, together with Cocks's correspondence with the East India Company and others. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1883....
By Charles Henry Coote, Edward Delmar Morgan
February 16, 2017
Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continued in First Series 73, with continuous pagination. This ...