Historical geography books

Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery...  Read More >>

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931.  Read More >>

In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 62, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback...  Read More >>

William Methwold's 'Relation', reprinted from Purchas his Pilgrimes and two other 'relations', one by Antony Schorer,...  Read More >>

Dezhnev was the first European to sail round the north-eastern tip of Asia. Translation of published Russian documents,...  Read More >>

This volume contains the remainder of book 5, of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of Discovery ... (London,...  Read More >>

Continued in Second Series 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1927....  Read More >>

William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar...  Read More >>

This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of...  Read More >>

The first twelve chapters on Ceylon in Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Dordrecht, 1724-6).  Read More >>

This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520...  Read More >>

Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery...  Read More >>

This is book 2 and part of book 3, of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of Discovery ... (London, 1798). The...  Read More >>

Documents published and unpublished, with appendices, including one on maps of New England 1606-1610, and one (by...  Read More >>

This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment...  Read More >>

During the second half of the 18th century, Britain and France despatched a number of major expeditions to the Pacific....  Read More >>

Significant in the history of Anglo-Spanish relations and of English ventures was Drake's expedition to the West...  Read More >>

A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt...  Read More >>

During the second half of the 18th century, Britain and France despatched a number of major expeditions to the Pacific....  Read More >>

This is book 1 of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of Discovery ... (London, 1798). The main pagination of...  Read More >>

Continued from Second Series 65. Translated and edited, with additional material, and introduction and notes, and...  Read More >>

In 1764 the Hon. John Byron was commissioned by the Admiralty to sail to the South Atlantic to search for Pepys's...  Read More >>

The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490 1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter...  Read More >>

In Acts of Occupation, historians Cavell and Noakes deliver the engrossing story of Canada's early days of Arctic...  Read More >>

Transcript of the manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), with a pedigree of Barlow, edited...  Read More >>