Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series series

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 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 1891 volume contains opposing accounts, one German and one Spanish, of Spanish activities in South America in the mid-sixteenth century, together with a short narrative by Hernando de Ribera.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains an anonymous journal of Vasco da Gama's expedition to India, the first to sail directly to India from Europe.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1897 volume contains accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland by Danish and English explorers, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, then only recently rediscovered.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Munk's Navigatio Septentrionalis tells of the Danish attempt to find a North-West Passage in 1619-1620, which reached Hudson's Bay but lost almost all the crew due to cold and disease.

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 (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.

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. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.

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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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.