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History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China, Including the Two Journeys Into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-H
ISBN: 9781409412830 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first part is translated from the 1688, Paris, edition; the narrative of Father Pereira's journey and the text of two letters by Father Verbiest are from the 1692, Amsterdam, edition. The supplementary material consists of the 1854 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854.
The first part is translated from the 1688, Paris, edition; the narrative of Father Pereira's journey and the text of two letters by Father Verbiest a...
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Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent: Collected and Published by Richard Hakluyt, Prebendary of Bristol, in the Y
ISBN: 9781409412731 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the original printed text, with notes and an introduction. The edition is described as prepared 'for the subscribers of 1849' and as the third volume of 1849 in the report in the next volume. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.
This volume contains the original printed text, with notes and an introduction. The edition is described as prepared 'for the subscribers of 1849' and...
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The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Afterwards Sir William Hedges), During His Agency in Bengal: Volume I as Well as on His Voyage Out and Return Overl
ISBN: 9781409413417 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel Henry Yule. The volume is continued in First Series 75 and 78. The whole work contains: I. The diary, with index.--II. Notices regarding Sir William Hedges, documentary memoirs of Job Charnock, and other biographical and miscellaneous illustrations of the time in India. -III. Documentary contributions to a biography of Thomas Pitt, governor of Fort St. George; with collections on the early history of the company's settlement in Bengal; and...
The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel ...
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The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Afterwards Sir William Hedges), During His Agency in Bengal: Volume II as Well as on His Voyage Out and Return Over
ISBN: 9781409413424 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel Henry Yule. The volume follows First Series 75 and is continued in 78. The whole work contains: I. The diary, with index.--II. Notices regarding Sir William Hedges, documentary memoirs of Job Charnock, and other biographical and miscellaneous illustrations of the time in India. -III. Documentary contributions to a biography of Thomas Pitt, governor of Fort St. George; with collections on the early history of the company's settlement in...
The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel ...
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The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto: And Six Hundred Spaniards His Followers, Written by a Gentleman of Elvas, Empl
ISBN: 9781409412755 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is reprinted from the Edition of 1611, edited, with notes and an introduction, along with a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, factor to the same. For Hakluyt's translation, see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series, 144-5), pp. 42, 252-5. The translation of Hernandez de Biedma's narrative was made from Ternaux-Compans, Recueil de pièces sur la Floride, Paris, 1841. The supplementary material includes the 1850 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1851.
This text is reprinted from the Edition of 1611, edited, with notes and an introduction, along with a translation of a narrative of the expedition by ...
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Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639
ISBN: 9781409412908 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes the following accounts: Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the land of Cinnamon, A.D. 1539-42, translated from the 2d pt. of Garcilasso Inca de la Vega's 'Royal commentaries of Peru'; The voyage of Francisco de Orellana down the river of the Amazons, A.D. 1540-1, translated from the sixth decade of A. de Herrera's 'General history of the western Indies'; New discovery of the great river of the Amazons, by 'Father Cristóbal de Acuña, A.D. 1639, translated from the Spanish edition of 1641. With a 'List of the Principal Tribes of the Valley of the Amazons'. Translated and Edited, with...
Includes the following accounts: Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the land of Cinnamon, A.D. 1539-42, translated from the 2d pt. of Garcilasso Inca de...
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Notes Upon Russia: Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Psrince Vasiley Ivanovich, in the Years 1517 and 1526
ISBN: 9781409412762 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 1851.
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 edit...
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The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1: Translated from Fray Pedro Simon's 'Sixth Historical N
ISBN: 9781409412946 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627. The supplementary material includes the 1861 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1861.
From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627. The supplementary material includes the 1861 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback ...
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Notes Upon Russia: Being a Translation of the Earliest Account of That Country, Entitled Rerum Muscoviticarum Commentarii
ISBN: 9781409412786 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first volume, see First Series 10. This volume has an appendix of documents, translated and in part collected by Richard Eden and printed from the 1577 edition of his History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, revised by Richard Willes. The supplementary material consists of the 1851 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1852.
For the first volume, see First Series 10. This volume has an appendix of documents, translated and in part collected by Richard Eden and printed from...
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The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil
ISBN: 9781409413189 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition of the author's Warhafftige Historia und Beschreiburg ejner Landtschallte der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Me...
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Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with Other Original Documents Relating to This Four Voyages to the New World
ISBN: 9781409413097 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J. A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminster Review (1852) and in his Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. 2. Contains the following: Introduction.--Dati, G. La lettera dellisole che ha trovato nuovamente il re dispagna. [At end] a di XXVI. doctobre. 14.93. Florentie.--Bibliography [of the Incunabula of Columbus' first letter]--First voyage: A letter sent by Columbus to Luis de Santangel chancellor of the exchequer. [Ambrosian text]--Second voyage: A letter addressed to the Chapter...
A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J. A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminst...
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Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu. a Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by Emery Molyneux: And Published in 1592, by Robert Hues. with 'Sai
ISBN: 9781409413462 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumn...
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The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope: Volume I
ISBN: 9781409413493 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in First Series 83. The supplementary material includes the 1890 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.
Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in First Series 83. T...
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Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565 : Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559), Sao Paulo (1561) and the Misadventures of the B
ISBN: 9781409414988 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or one of the greatest is confiding their lives to four planks lashed together, and to the discretion of the furious winds.' So wrote Henrique Dias, an eye-witness of the wreck of the Sao Paulo off Sumatra and the subsequent fate of the survivors. His account is one of three narratives, here translated into English for the first time, of certain shipwrecks which befell the Portuguese in the mid-16th century. The other two describe the wrecking of...
'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or o...
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Sir Francis Drake His Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde: Together with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto Rico
ISBN: 9781409412700 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is edited from the original manuscripts, along with a translation of the Spanish document 'Relacion de lo sucedido en San Juan de Puerto Rico de las Yudias, con la armada ynglesa del cargo de Francis Draque y Juan Aquines, a los 23rd [!] de noviembre de 1595'. The volume is the first to include supplementary material on the Society, but the material does not include an annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1849.
This is edited from the original manuscripts, along with a translation of the Spanish document 'Relacion de lo sucedido en San Juan de Puerto Rico de ...
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The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Afterwards Sir William Hedges), During His Agency in Bengal: Volume III as Well as on His Voyage Out and Return Ove
ISBN: 9781409413455 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel Henry Yule. With pedigrees of Pitt of Blandford St Mary and Pitt of Stratfieldsay, and indexes to all three volumes.The volume continues from First Series 74 and 75. The whole work contains: I. The diary, with index.--II. Notices regarding Sir William Hedges, documentary memoirs of Job Charnock, and other biographical and miscellaneous illustrations of the time in India. -III. Documentary contributions to a biography of Thomas Pitt, governor...
The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc. by R. Barlow, and illustrated by 'Copious Extracts from Unpublished Records, etc.' by Colonel ...
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The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta: Reprinted from the English Translated Edition of Edward Grimeston, 1604 Volum
ISBN: 9781409413271 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1880.
Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continu...
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The Hawkins' Voyages During the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I
ISBN: 9781409413240 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins' grandfather Willi...
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Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen: With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English wi
ISBN: 9781409413400 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 supplementary material includes the 1885 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1886.
Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including co...
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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)
ISBN: 9781409413073 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
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 har...
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