Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series series

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This book, first published in 1882, contains an anonymous account of the early history of Bermuda from the founding of the British colony in 1612, edited from a previously unpublished manuscript.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume description of the history and geography of China, translated into English in 1588 and republished in 1853, was the first detailed account of China available in English.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) became a controversial figure after the publication of two letters attempting to undermine Christopher Columbus. These letters and other documents are provided in this volume.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains two diaries about Turkey. Dallam, an organ-builder, was sent by Queen Elizabeth to Constantinople in 1600. Covel went with the British ambassador from 1670-1677, and travelled widely.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This sixteenth-century narrative, published in English in 1862, is the self-justificatory account of a Spanish nobleman who sought his fortune in Peru and there witnessed the feud between Pizarro and Almagro.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1866 compilation, the second of two focusing on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes, includes Arabic and Persian accounts as well as those of Europeans.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Leo Africanus (c. 1494-c. 1554) was an Arab diplomat who enjoyed the patronage of Pope Leo X. This work describes the cultures, religions and politics of northern Africa.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Two volumes from 1884 contain accounts of the attempts by Captains James and Foxe in 1631 to find a route through Arctic waters to Asia, together with those of earlier explorers.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Two volumes from 1884 contain accounts of the attempts by Captains James and Foxe in 1631 to find a route through Arctic waters to Asia, together with those of earlier explorers.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Pedro de Cierza de Leon (c.1520-1554) travelled extensively in Peru between 1548 and 1554. This book is the first of two Hakluyt volumes containing an English translation of his observations.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1861 volume contains an early account of the most notorious sixteenth-century expedition in search of El Dorado, that of Lope de Aguirre, whose cruelty and treachery became legendary.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume (1860) is a documentary biography of Henry Hudson, who was presumed dead around 1611 after being cast adrift in a small boat in Arctic waters by his mutinous crew.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains an edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1596 account of his discoveries in South America, including the city of El Dorado.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, contains an edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus and others describing his first four voyages to the New World.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains the letters of the Zeno brothers (c. 1326-1403), purporting to relate an expedition to America. R. H. Major provides an analysis demonstrating the ingenuity of this fabricated account.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1872 volume contains translations of four accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru by eye-witnesses including Francisco Pizarro's secretary and his brother Hernando.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1866 compilation, the first of two on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes, contains a substantial introductory essay and narratives by several fourteenth-century missionary friars.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This English translation of Zurara's fifteenth-century chronicle of the discovery of Guinea by explorers sponsored by his patron Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) first appeared in 1896-1899.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This 1863 translation presents the travelogue of Ludovico di Varthema, who in 1502 set off from Italy and journeyed to Egypt, Syria, Persia, India and the Moluccas before returning to Europe in 1508.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This book, published in 1873, contains translations of four manuscripts describing the rites and laws of the Incas, by authors who had lived and worked in Peru in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1881 volume contains accounts of Baffin's voyages exploring northern waters. His scientific methods and use of lunar observations to calculate longitude were groundbreaking, and remarkably accurate, as later explorers found.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This is a translation of the first detailed account of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600). Volume 1 describes the animals, plants and climate of South America.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This second edition, from 1878, of the Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins contains additional narratives about other members of the Hawkins family, all distinguished seamen and explorers of the sixteenth century.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, published in 1877, provides four contemporary accounts of Sir James Lancaster's journeys to India between 1591 and 1600, which contributed to the establishing of the East India Company.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volume 1 of this four-volume Victorian English translation of The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque describes his expeditions to India and the Persian Gulf between 1503 and 1509.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This volume (1869) contains an English translation of Books 1-4 of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, by Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), the son of a Spanish soldier and an Inca princess.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This work contains the memoirs and observations of Francois Leguat (1637-1735), the leader of a group of French Huguenots forced to colonise the Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez in 1693.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Three volumes, published in 1887, are devoted to the diary of William Hedges (1632-1701), the first Agent of the East India Company in Bengal, and its seventeenth-century colonial context.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume 1885 edition of an early English translation of Linschoten's 1596 book describes the fauna, flora and peoples Linschoten encountered on his voyage to St Helena, Java and Sumatra.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. Volumes 66 and 67, first published in 1883, contain the diary and selected correspondence of Richard Cocks (c.1565-1624), who was head of a British trading post in Japan from 1613 to 1622.