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Hakluyt Society Digitized Books


A useful selection of early Hakluyt Society publications, largely from the First Series and dating from 1847 to the 1860s, has recently been digitized by Google Books. The list below includes only those titles known to be available in 'full view', meaning that they have been scanned cover-to-cover and the full text placed in the public domain. They can be read online, converted to a basic text format, or they can be downloaded as a pdf file.

Clicking on 'View' will take you to the relevant page at Google Books, which will normally present an image of the title page of the required book in the top left corner of the screen. Clicking this image will take you into the book itself.

The list below was correct at 1 January 2008 and will be regularly updated as more titles become available.


First Series

1. The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his Voyage into the South, ed by Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, 1847. View

2. Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, ed by Richard Henry Major, 1847. View

3. The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh, ed by Robert Schomburgk, 1849. View

4. Sir Francis Drake his voyage, by Thomas Maynarde, ed by W. D. Cooley, 1849. View

6. The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia by William Strachey, ed by Richard Henry Major, 1849. View

7. Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent, ed by John Winter Jones, 1850. View

9. The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto, ed by William Brenchley Rye, 1851. View

10 & 12. Notes upon Russia by Sigmund Herberstein, ed by Richard Henry Major, 1851-2. View

14 & 15. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the situation thereof: Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, ed by Sir George Thomas Staunton, 1853-54. View

18. A Collection of Documents of Spitzbergen & Greenland, ed by Adam White, 1855. View

19. The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, ed by Bolton Corney, 1855. View

20. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, ed by Edward Augustus Bond, 1856. View

21. History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni, ed by William Henry Smyth, 1857. View

22. India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages, ed by Richard Henry Major, 1857. View

23. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain, ed by Alice Wilmere & Norton Shaw, 1859. View

24. Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639, ed by Clements Robert Markham, 1859. View

25. Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia, by Richard Henry Major, 1859. View

26. Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, ed by Clements Robert Markham, 1859. View

28. The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in search of Edorado, by William Bollaert, 1861. View

29. The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman: A Knight of Seville, ed by Clements Robert Markham, 1862. View

30. The Discoveries of the World by António Galvão, ed by Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, 1862. View

32. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta, ed by John Winter Jones & George Percy Badger, 1863. View

36. Cathay and the Way Thither, ed by Sir Henry Yule, 1866. Digitized by Toyo Bunko Rare Books. View


Second Series

22. History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, ed by Clements Markham, 1907-08 (Reprint by Plain Label Books). View