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The Hakluyt Society has for its object the advancement of knowledge and education, particularly in relation to the understanding of world history. The society publishes scholarly editions of primary sources on the 'Voyages and Travels' undertaken by individuals from many parts of the globe. These address the geography, ethnology and natural history of the regions visited, covering all continents and every period over the last two thousand years. Such texts, many previously available only in manuscript or in unedited publications in languages other than English, are the essential records of the stages of inter-continental and inter-cultural encounter.

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.

Information about the Society may be obtained from the Administrative Assistant at the following address:

Hakluyt Society, c/o Map Library, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DG, UK

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Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China Volume I

Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China: Volume I

1st Edition

Edited By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010

'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in ...

Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China Volume II

Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China: Volume II

1st Edition

Edited By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010

See First Series 36 for the first volume, with which this has a continuous pagination. Contains contemporary notices of Cathay under the Mongols, from Rashiduddin; Pegolotti's notices of the land route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century; Marignolli's recollections of eastern ...

Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Volumes I-II

Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Volumes I-II

1st Edition

By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010

Volume I: 'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-...

Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620 In Two Books. Book I - The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607; to which is added Captain James Hall's Voyage to Greenland in 1612

Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: In Two Books. Book I - The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607; to which is added Captain James Hall's Voyage to Greenland in 1612

1st Edition

Edited By C.C.A. Gosch
July 28, 2010

Continued in First Series 97. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897....

Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620 In Two Books. Book II - The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619-20

Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: In Two Books. Book II - The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619-20

1st Edition

Edited By C.C.A. Gosch
July 28, 2010

Continues First Series 96. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897....

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea. Volume II

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen: With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea. Volume II

1st Edition

Edited By Charles Henry Coote, Edward Delmar Morgan
July 28, 2010

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. Continues from First Series 72, with continuous pagination. The...

First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega Volume I (Containing Books I, II, III, and IV)

First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega: Volume I (Containing Books I, II, III, and IV)

1st Edition

Edited By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continued in First Series 45. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1869....

First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega Volume II (Containing Books V, Vi, VII, VIII and IX)

First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega: Volume II (Containing Books V, Vi, VII, VIII and IX)

1st Edition

Edited By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continues First Series 41. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1871....

Notes upon Russia Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Psrince Vasiley Ivanovich, in the years 1517 and 1526

Notes upon Russia: Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Psrince Vasiley Ivanovich, in the years 1517 and 1526

1st Edition

Edited By R.H. Major
July 28, 2010

Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The first edition of the Commentarii appeared in Vienna in 1549, but it is not clear which edition was used for this translation. Continued in First Series 12. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in ...

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

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

1st Edition

By Edgar Prestage, Charles Raymond Beazley
July 28, 2010

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 Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes de Azurara Volume II (Chapters XLI- XCVI)

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes de Azurara: Volume II (Chapters XLI- XCVI)

1st Edition

Edited By Charles Raymond Beazley, Edgar Prestage
July 28, 2010

This continues the translation and edtion of the chronicle from First Series 95, with chapters 41-97, and 'an Introduction on the early History of African Exploration, Cartography, etc.' This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899....

The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque Volume II

The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque: Volume II

1st Edition

Edited By Walter de Gray Birch
July 28, 2010

This is translated from Part ii of the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Continues from First Series 53, and continued in 62, and 69. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877....

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