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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 30 March 2009 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
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
11. The Geography of Hudson's Bay; being the Remarks of Captain W. Coats... between the years 1727 and 1751, ed. by John Barrow, 1852. 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
16. The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, ed by William Sandys Wright Vaux, 1854. View
17. History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China, including the two Journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest, etc., trans. & ed. by the Earl of Ellesmere, 1854. 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
27. Henry Hudson the Navigator, ed. by G.M. Asher, 1860. 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
31. Mirabilia Descripta. The Wonders of the East, by Friar Jordanus, trans. by Henry Yule, 1863. View
32. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta, ed by John Winter Jones & George Percy Badger, 1863. View
34. Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Catilla Del Oro: and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua by Pascual de Andagoya, ed. by Clements R. Markham, 1865. View
36. Cathay and the Way Thither, ed by Sir Henry Yule, 1866. View
Digitized by Toyo Bunko Rare Books. View
38. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-west, A.D. 1576-8, ed. by Richard Collinson, 1867. View
39. The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Antonio de Morga, ed. by Henry E.J. Stanley, 1868. View
40. The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, trans. by Pascual de Gayangos, 1868. View
Second Series
9. The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his "Kings of Harmuz" and Extracts from his "Kings of Persia", trans. by William F. Sinclair, 1902. View
22. History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, ed by Clements Markham, 1907-08 (Reprint by Plain Label Books). View
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