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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society: Series 1 - Part 1

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Series 1 Books 1-25

1. The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt., in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593
2. Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other Original Documents, relating to his Four Voyages to the New World
3. The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa
4. Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595
5. Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India. 1496 to 1631
6. The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia;
7. Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
7. Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
8. Memorials of the Empire of Japon in the XVI and XVII Centuries
9. The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto and six hundred Spaniards his Followers
9. The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto and six hundred Spaniards his Followers
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10. Notes upon Russia: Being a Translation of the earliest Account of that Country,
11. The Geography of Hudson’s Bay: Being the Remarks of Captain W. Coats, in many Voyages to that Locality, between the Years 1727 and 1751
12. Notes upon Russia … . Volume II.
13. A true Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596
14. The History of the great and mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof
15. The History of the great and mighty Kingdom of China. … Volume II
16. The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
17. History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China
18. A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland, comprising a translation from F. Martens’ Voyage to Spitzbergen
19. The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;
20. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century.
21. History of the New World, by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan.
22. India in the Fifteenth Century.
23. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the years 1599-1602, With Maps and Illustrations.
24. Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639.
25. Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia

Series 1 Books 26-50

26. Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6.
27. Henry Hudson the Navigator: the Original Documents in which his Career is recorded.
28. The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1.
29. The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman, a Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543.
30. The Discoveries of the World, from their First Original unto the Year of Our Lord 1555
31. Mirabilia Descripta. The Wonders of the East, by Friar Jordanus, of the Order of Preachers and Bishop of Columbum in India the Greater, (circa 1330).
32. The travels of Ludovico de Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508.
33. The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru
34. Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Castilla del Oro,
35. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese.
36. Cathay and the Way Thither
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Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in English translation.
37. Cathay and the way thither. … Volume II.
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Contemporary notices of Cathay under the Mongols, from Rashíduddín; Pegolotti’s notices of the land route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century; Marignolli’s recollections of eastern travel; Ibn Batt_ta’s travels in Bengal and China; the journey of Benedict Goës from Agra to Cathay; all in English translation, with Latin and Italian texts of Odoric’s narrative. For a revised version of the whole work, see Second Series 33, 37, 38, 41
38. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8.
39. The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century.
40. The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, containing an Account of his Expedition to Honduras.
41. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega.
42. The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty.
43. Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World
44. History of the Imâms and Seyyids of ‘Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856
45. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas [Continued from Series One 41]
46. The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402
47. Reports on the Discovery of Peru. I.
48. Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas.
49a./49b. Travels to Tana and Persia
50. The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century

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