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 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 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 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 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 (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account of the early history of Bermuda from the founding of the British colony in 1612, edited from a previously unpublished manuscript.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 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 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 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.