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ALLEN, W.E.D. (Ed.). Russian embassies to the Georgian kings (1589-1605). Edited with introduction, additional notes, commentaries and bibliography. Texts translated by Anthony Mango. Cambridge, 1970-1972. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 8 maps and 18 plates. XXXII, IX, 640 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 138 - 139. - The Russian embassy of Zvenigorodski and Antonov (1589-90) to the king ruling in Kakheti in eastern Georgia. [Boeknr.: 19951 ]

€ 65,00

BARBOUR, Philip. L. (Ed.). The Jamestown Voyages under the first charter 1606-1609. Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609. Cambridge, 1969. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 11 maps and plates. XXVIII, VIII, 524 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 136-137. - In December 1606, one hundred twenty emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first Englisg colony was established in America. [Boeknr.: 16217 ]

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BARGRAVE, Robert. The travel diary of Robert Bargrave Levant merchant (1647-1656). Edited by Michael G. Brennan. London, 1999. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 17 plates and illustrations. XIX,288 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 3. - The introduction provides an assessment of the historical, literary, and geographical importance of Robert Bargrave's journal. [Boeknr.: 34636 ]

€ 45,00

BARR, William & Glyndwr Williams. (Ed.). Voyages to Hudson Bay in search of a Northwest passage 1741-1747. London, 1994-95. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 11 maps and 20 plates. XII,333; XV,393 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 177-181. - Volume I: The voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742. Volume II: The voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. [Boeknr.: 20217 ]

€ 45,00

BEALS, Herbert K. a.o. (Ed.). Four travel journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874. Edited by Herbert K. Beals, R.J. Campbell, Ann Savours, Anita McConnell, Roy Bridges. London, 2007. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and maps. X,404 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 18. - This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. [Boeknr.: 34641 ]

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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de. The Pacific journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1767-1768. Translated and edited by John Dunmore. London, 2002. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 11 maps and plates. LXXVII,322 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 9. - Although Bougainville published an account of his voyage in 1771, his original journal was published only in 1977; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in English translation. [Boeknr.: 34638 ]

€ 55,00

BOVILL, E.W. (Ed.). Missions to the Niger. Volume I. Cambridge, 1964. Cloth, dust-jacket. With 6 maps and 4 plates. XI,406 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 123. - Exploration of the Niger. VolumeI I: The journal of Friedrich Hornemann's travels and the letters of Alexander Gordon Laing. [Boeknr.: 34631 ]

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BRENNAN, Michael G. (Ed.). The origins of the grand tour. The travels of Robert Mantague, Lord Mandeville (1649-1654), William Hammond (1655-1658), Banaster Maynard (1660-1663). London, 2004. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 49 illustrations and plates. XVII,331 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 14. - The longterm English fascination with the Grand Tour was firmly rooted in the mid-tudor and early Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the prectical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediences of political or religious exile. [Boeknr.: 34639 ]

€ 45,00

BRIDGES, R.C. & P.E.H. HAIR. (Ed.). Compassing the vaste globe of the earth. Studies in the history of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996. With a complete list of the Society's publications. London, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 30 plates. XI,336 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 183. - Volume of essys, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Hakluyt Society. [Boeknr.: 21070 ]

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BROECKE, Pieter van den. Pieter van den Broecke's journal of voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612). Translated and edited by J.D La Fleur. London, 2000. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 plates and 7 maps. XV,139 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 5. - This edition offers for the first time an English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. [Boeknr.: 34644 ]

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CAMPBELL, R.J. (Ed). The discovery of the South Shetland Islands. The voyages of the brig Williams 1819-1820 as recorded in contemporary documents and the journal of midshipman C.W. Poynter. London, 2000. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 31 maps and illustrations. XV,232 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 4. - This is the only first-hand account of a voyage, during which the Antarctic mainland was sighted for the first time. [Boeknr.: 34635 ]

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CELL, Gillian T. (Ed.). Newfoundland discovered. English attemps at colonisation, 1610-1630. London, 1982. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 illustrations and 3 maps. XVIII,310 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 160. - Accounts of the earliest English settlements in Newfoundland. [Boeknr.: 20989 ]

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JOBSON, Richard. The discovery of River Gambia (1623). Edited, with additional material, by David P. Gamble and P.E.H. Hair. London, 1999. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 19 plates and illustrations. XVI,341 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 2. - 'Jobson's account of the river, its commerce, natural history, peoples, religion and politics, was the earliest to appear in print, in this fullness of details in any language. Itwas also the earliest detailed account of any part of Black Africa, by an Englishman'. [Boeknr.: 34637 ]

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LORIMER, Joyce (Ed.). English and Irish settlement on the river Amazon 1550-1646. London, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps. XXVI,499 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 171. - The ventures in the Amazon are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. [Boeknr.: 21028 ]

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MAGUIRE, Rochfort. The journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854. Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce. London, 1988. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 5 maps and 5 illustrations. XIV,VI,584 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 169-170. - The Plover's voyage of 1848 to 1854 was the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic, and Rochfort Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska. [Boeknr.: 20011 ]

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MALASPINA, Alejandro. The Malaspina expedition 1789-1794. Journal of the voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Edited by Andrew David, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi, Glyndwr Williams. Introduction by Donanld C. Cutter. Translated by Sylvia Jamieson. London, 2001-2004. 3 volumes. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With many maps and illustrations. XCVIII,338; XX,511; XXI,487 pp. Hakluyt Series, 3rd series, 8,11,13. - The Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794) was a five-year maritime scientific exploration commanded by Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra. The expedition was funded by the Spanish government and originally pursued strictly scientific goals. They were to survey and chart the islands and coasts under Spanish control or claim, visit the major settlements throughout the Pacific, and collect information on botany, zoology, ichthyology, ethnography and geography. Volume 1- Cadiz to Panama, Volume II - Panama to the Philippines and Volume III - Manila to Cadiz. [Boeknr.: 34646 ]

€ 175,00

PEARD, George. To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey. The journal of lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. 'Blossom' 1825-1828. Edited by Barry M. Gough. Cambridge., 1973. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 maps and 6 plates. X,272 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 143. - Peard's journal of the voyage of Captain Frederick William Beechey is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook. [Boeknr.: 20994 ]

€ 30,00

PENNINGTON, L.E. (Ed.). The Purchas handbook. Studies of the life, times and writings of Samuel Purchas 1577-1626. With bibliographies of his books and works about him. London, 1997. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 29 plates. XVII,380; VII,431 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 185-186. - While the emphasis is on Purchas' major work, Purchas his pilgrimes (1625), his earlier works are also considered. [Boeknr.: 15930 ]

€ 75,00

QUINN, David B. & Alison M. (Ed.). The English New England voyages 1602-1608. London, 1983. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 36 maps and illustrations. XXIV,580 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 161. - Contains the first documents of the exploration of Norumbega, the later New England. [Boeknr.: 16519 ]

€ 40,00

QUINN, David Beers. (Ed.). The Hakluyt handbook. London, 1974. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 54 maps and plates. XXVI,XIII,707 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 144-145. - Provides a reference guide to the works of the reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, translator and author of travel literature. [Boeknr.: 20846 ]

€ 75,00

RALEIGH, Walter. - RALEGH, Walter. Sir Walter Ralegh's discoverie of Guiana. Edited by Joyce Lorimer. London, 2006. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 11 maps and plates. XCVII,360 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 15. - Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. [Boeknr.: 34643 ]

€ 45,00

SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann. The Guiana travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844. Edited by Peter Rivière. London, 2006. 8vo. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 3 maps and 13 illustrations. XIII,406; XII,266 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 16-17. - Volume I: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society 1835-1839. Volume II: The boundary survey 1840-1844. Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804 - 1865) was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies. [Boeknr.: 34645 ]

€ 75,00

SCHUVER, Juan Maria. Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883. Edited by Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas H. Johnson. London, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps and illustrations. CVII,392 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 184. - Juan Maria Schuver, son of a wealthy Amsterdam businessmann, remained for two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile basin. His lively account of the region and his encounters with local people is presented from the rediscovered original manuscripts. [Boeknr.: 16613 ]

€ 30,00

SURVILLE, Jean de & Guillaume Labé. The expedition of the St Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770. Translated and edited by John Dunmore. London, 1981. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 4 maps and 10 illustrations. X,310 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 158. - Providing a valuable picture of a Pacific expedition in the heroic period of exploration, of the men who took part in it and the difficulties and hardships they encountered. [Boeknr.: 20985 ]

€ 30,00

VALENTIJN, François. Description of Ceylon. Translated and edited by Sinnappah Arasaratnam. London, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding map and 13 plates. XV,395 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 149. - This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of his Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, 1726 (Old and New East Indies). [Boeknr.: 6322 ]

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