Hakluyt Society volumes in print

Hakluyt Society volumes in print

Hakluyt Society volumes in print

All books listed below are still available for purchase, but please read the note on availability, below. A limited number of Hakluyt Society Annual lectures is also available for purchase.

Ordering information

Members: Members of the Hakluyt Society are entitled to a discount of around 40%, when ordering books published outside their period of membership, or if they require supplementary copies of books already received. This discount now applies to both original editions and print-on-demand reprints.

To order books online at the special discounted rate, members must first login to the ‘members only‘ page of this website where they will find full instructions including a discount code for use on the Routledge website via which volumes still in print can be ordered.

Non-members and booksellers must order directly from the Society’s publisher, which is currently Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. Please click here to enter the Routledge / T&F page from which you can browse the various series of Hakluyt Society books, or where you can search for the book required by entering its title into the search box.

Hakluyt Society Series I and Series II Reprints

The Hakluyt Society has made available the Society’s entire back catalogue from Series I, number 1 to Series II, number 190; in fact the entire collection of 290 volumes published between the years 1847 and 2000. These hardback facsimiles of the original works are available on a print-on-demand basis at a cost of around £35-40 per volume.

To view or order these books, please click on the following links:

First Series reprints

Second Series reprints

 

Hakluyt Society Series II, Series III and Extra Series original editions

Availability: The list below shows Hakluyt Society Second, Third and Extra Series titles that were still available in their original editions in November 2019. However, please be advised that stocks of most of the titles in the Second Series, as well as a few Third Series volumes, are now approaching single figures and can go out of print at any time. Every attempt will be made to keep this list up to date, but the last copy might have been sold only yesterday, so you are strongly advised to contact the publisher in advance. Any titles not listed below are definitely out-of-print but may be obtained as print-on-demand volumes (above).

Note: The only way of distinguishing between original and print-on-demand volumes on the Routledge website is to look at the price being charged (around £70-90 for originals, or around £35-40 for p.o.d.) At present, original Second Series books may be found here.

SECOND SERIES. Demy 8vo.

150. The Travel Journal of Antonio de Beatis through Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-18.
Edited by J. R. HALE. 1979. pp. xii + 206. 2 illustrations, 1 map.
ISBN 0 904180 07 7

156-7. The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701.
Edited by N. J. W. THROWER.
Vol. I. 1982. pp. 392. 15 illustr.
Vol. II. 1982. 3 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 02 6. 2 volumes

158. The Expedition of the St Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific, 1769-1770.
Edited by J. DUNMORE. 1981. pp. x + 310. Frontispiece, 9 illustrations, 4 maps.
0 904180 11 5

159. The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering’s precursor, with selected documents.
Edited by RAYMOND H. FISHER. 1981. pp. xiii + 326. 3 illustrations, 22 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 12 3

160. Newfoundland Discovered by English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610-1630.
Edited by GILLIAN T. CELL. 1982. pp. xviii + 310. 2 illustrations, 3 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 13 1

168. The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland, 1810.
Edited by ANDREW WAWN. 1987. pp. xvii + 342. 24 illustrations, 3 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 22 0

169-70. The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard H.M.S. Plover in search for Sir John Franklin.
Edited by JOHN BOCKSTOCE.
Vol. I. 1988. pp. xiv + 318. 3 illustrations, 4 maps.
Vol. II. 1988. pp. vi + 319-584. 2 illustrations, 1 map.
ISBN 0 904180 24 7. 2 volumes

172. Agatharchides of Cnidus: On the Erythraean Sea.
Translated and edited by STANLEY M. BURSTEIN. 1990. pp. xii + 202. 1 map.
ISBN 0 904180 28 X

174. Prutky’s Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries.
Edited by HENRY ARROWSMITH-BROWN. 1991. pp. xxviii + 546. Frontispiece, 4 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 30 1

177. Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747. Vol. I. The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742.
Edited by WILLIAM BARR and GLYNDWYR WILLIAMS. 1994. pp. xii + 334. 3 plates, 8 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 36 0

179-80. The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785-1788.
Translated and edited by JOHN DUNMORE.
Vol. 1. 1994. pp. ccxl + 232. 3 plates, 8 maps.
Vol. II. 1995. pp. vi + 380. 16 plates, 5 maps.
ISBN 904180 40 9. 2 volumes

181. Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747. Vol. II. The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.
Edited by by WILLIAM BARR and GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. 1995. pp. xvi + 394. 17 plates, 3 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 41 7

184. Juan Maria Schuver’s Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883.
Edited by WENDY JAMES, GERD BAUMANN and DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON. 1996. pp. xciii + 379. 14 plates, 4 maps (2 in colour).
ISBN 0 904180 45 X

185-6. The Purchas Handbook: Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas 1577-1626.
Edited by L. E. PENNINGTON.
Vol. 1. 1997. pp. xvii + 380. 11 plates.
Vol. II. 1997. pp. vii + 431. 18 plates.
ISBN 0 904180 54 9. 2 volumes

189. Peter Petrovich Semenov. Travels in the Tian’-Shan’ 1856-1857.
Edited by COLIN THOMAS. Translated by LIUDMILA GILMOUR, COLIN THOMAS and MARCUS WHEELER. 1998. pp. xliii + 270. 15 colour plates, 4 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 60 3

THIRD SERIES. Format large 8vo.

1. Searching for Franklin: the Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855. James Anderson’s and James Stewart’s Expedition via the Black River.
Edited by WILLIAM BARR. 1999. pp. xv + 292. 13 half tone plates.
ISBN 0 904180 61 1.

2. The Discovery of River Gambra (1623) by Richard Jobson.
Edited, with additional material, by DAVID P. GAMBLE and P. E. H. HAIR. 1999. pp. xvi + 341. 2 colour plates, 13 half tone plates and illustrations, 8 line drawings, 3 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 64 6.

3. The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant (1647-1656).
Edited by MICHAEL G. BRENNAN. 1999. pp. xix + 288. 17 illustrations.
ISBN 0 904180 63 8.

4. The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands. The Voyage of the Brig Williams, 1819-1820 and The Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter.
Edited by R. J. CAMPBELL. 2000. pp. xv + 248. 16 colour plates, 6 monochrome plates, 9 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 62 X.

5. Pieter van den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612).
Edited by JAMES D. LA FLEUR. 2000. pp. xv + 139. 1 colour plate, 1 illustration, 7 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 68 9.

6. The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578.
Edited by JAMES McDERMOTT. 2001. pp. x + 268. 5 half tone plates, 1 map
ISBN 0 904180 69 7.

7. João Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan.
Edited by MICHAEL COOPER. 2001. pp. xli + 428. 30 monochrome plates.
ISBN 0 904180 73 5.

9. The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768.
Edited by JOHN DUNMORE. 2002. pp. lxxvii + 322. 2 colour plates, 3 illustrations, 6 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 78 6.

10. The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846. The Journals of Charles Sturt.
Edited by RICHARD C. DAVIS. 2002. pp. lxxi + 366. Colour frontispiece, 1 colour plate, 3 half tone plates, map.
ISBN 0 904180 80 8.

11. The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794. The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Vol. II. Panama to the Philippines.
Edited by ANDREW DAVID, FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, CARLOS NOVI and GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. 2003. pp. xx + 511. 44 colour and monochrome plates, 7 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 81 6.

12. The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Vol. I. The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813.
Edited by C. IAN JACKSON. 2003. pp. lxi + 242. 9 monochrome illustrations, 5 maps.
ISBN 0 904180 82 4.

14. The Origins of the Grand Tour; 1649-1663, The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard.
Edited by MICHAEL BRENNAN. 2004, pp. xvii + 331, 49 plates.
ISBN 0 904 180 85 9

15. Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana
Edited by JOYCE LORIMER. 2006 (issued for 2005), pp. xcvii + 360, 6 plates, 5 maps.
ISBN-13: 978-0-904180-87-9 and ISBN-10: 0-904180-87-5

16. The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk: 1835–1844, Volume I: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835–1839
Edited by PETER RIVIÈRE. 2006, pp. xiii + 406, 13 plates, 3 maps.
ISBN-13: 978-0-904180-86-2 and ISBN-10: 0-904180-86-7

17. The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk: 1835–1844, Volume II: The Boundary Survey, 1840–1844
Edited by PETER RIVIÈRE. 2006, pp. xii + 266, 12 plates, 3 maps.
ISBN-13: 978-0-904180-88-6 and ISBN-10: 0-904180-88-3

18. Four Travel Journals: The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
Edited by HERBERT K. BEALS, R. J. CAMPBELL, ANN SAVOURS, ANITA MCCONNELL & ROY BRIDGES. 2007, pp. x + 404, 50 plates, 8 maps.
ISBN-13 978-0-904180-90-9 and ISBN-10: 0-904180-90-5

19. A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir’s Tarikh al-Mustabsir
Trans. & edited by G. REX SMITH. 2008, pp. xix + 341, 1 plate, 15 plans & maps.
ISBN 978-0-904180-91-6.

20. The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Vol. II. The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816.
Edited by C. IAN JACKSON. Appendix by George Huxtable. 2008. pp. xxxvii + 308. 8 monochrome illustrations, 3 maps.
ISBN 978-0-904180-92-3.

22. William Robert Broughton’s Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798 / Edited by ANDREW DAVID. Introduction by Barry Gough. 2010, pp. lxx + 315, 9 plates, 12 maps. ISBN 978-0-90418-097-8.

23. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume I / Edited by ISABEL BOAVIDA, HERVÉ PENNEC & MANUEL JOÃO RAMOS. Translated by Christopher J. Tribe. 2011, pp. xx + [4] + 501, 16 plates, 2 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-00-0.

24. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II / Edited by ISABEL BOAVIDA, HERVÉ PENNEC & MANUEL JOÃO RAMOS. Translated by Christopher J. Tribe. 2011, pp. ix + 429, 1 plate. £55 (£33) ISBN 978-1-908145-01-7. ISBN 978-1-908145-02-4.

26. Russian California, 1806-1860. A History in Documents / Volume I / Edited by JAMES R. GIBSON & ALEXEI A. ISTOMIN, with the assistance of Valery A. Tishkov. Translated by James R. Gibson. 2014, pp. lxi + 547, 20 colour plates, 16 figures, 4 maps. ISBN 978-1-9081-4506-2

27. Russian California, 1806-1860. A History in Documents / Volume II / Edited by JAMES R. GIBSON & ALEXEI A. ISTOMIN, with the assistance of Valery A. Tishkov. Translated by James R. Gibson. 2014, pp. xii + 640, 9 colour plates, 9 figures. ISBN 978-1-9081-4507-9. Two-volume set ISBN 978-1-9081-4508-6.

28. Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume I / Edited by KENNETH MORGAN. 2015, pp. xxiv + 416, 5 colour plates, 13 figures, 3 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-09-3.

29. Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II / Edited by KENNETH MORGAN. 2015, pp. xiv + 560, 4 colour plates, 10 figures, 7 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-10-9. Two-volume set ISBN 978-1-908145-11-6.
Note: Vols I and II must be purchased together.

30. Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Edited by ANNA AGNARSDÓTTIR. 2016, pp. xxvi + 681, 17 colour plates, 8 figures, 3 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-14-7.

31. The Struggle for the South Atlantic / The Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584 / Edited by CARLA RAHN PHILLIPS. 2016, pp. xiv + 203. 7 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-15-4.

32. A Walk Across Africa / J. A. Grant’s Account of the Nile Expedition of 1860-1863 / Edited by ROY BRIDGES. 2018, pp. xxix + 411, 44 colour plates, 110 figures, 10 maps. ISBN 978-1-908145-16-1.

33. The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in His Majesty’s Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671 / Edited by RICHARD J. CAMPBELL, with Peter T. Bradley and Joyce Lorimer. 2018, pp. xx + 723, 15 colour plates, foldout chart, 11 maps, 11 figures. ISBN 978-1-908145-20-8.

34. The Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour / John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806-1807 / Edited by ANGELA BYRNE. 2018, pp. xx + 376, 6 maps, 15 figures. ISBN 978-1-138-49200-4.

35. The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., the Naturalist in H.M.S. Alert, 1875-1876 / Edited by TREVOR H. LEVERE. 2019, pp. xxxi + 400, 10 maps, 17 colour plates, 68 figures. ISBN 978-0-367-35637-8.

36. The Javanese Travels of Purwalelana / A Nobleman’s Account of his Journeys across the Island of Java 1860-1875. Translated, with an introduction and notes by JUDITH E. BOSNAK and FRANS X. KOOT. 2020, pp. xxii + 272, 4 maps, 24 colour plates, 49 photographs, 5 diagrams. ISBN 978-0-367-53005-1.

37. The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739 / Edited by DEREK L. ELLIOTT. 2021, pp. xviii + 185, 8 maps, 4 colour plates, 9 monochrome illustrations. ISBN 978-0-367-71391-1.

38. Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535. From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés / Edited by GLEN F. DILLE. 2021, pp. xix+194, 6 maps, 26-page introduction, notes, bibliography. ISBN 978-0-367-70075-1

39. English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600 / Edited by MICHAEL G. BRENNAN. 2022, pp. xxxiv+433, 16 maps, 27 colour plates, 45 b/w illustrations, 29-page introduction, appendix, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-03-217054-1

40. The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696 – 1698) / The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship’s Surgeon / Edited By COLIN HEYWOOD, EDMOND SMITH. 2022, pp. 280, 16 maps, 15 colour plates, 3 maps, index. ISBN 978-1-03-222211-0

41. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean / Edited by NIGEL STATHAM, IAN C. CAMPBELL. 2023. 552 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 978-1-032-352145

EXTRA SERIES. Various formats.

Please note that, due to their high production costs, none of the books in the Extra Series were offered free to members.

46. The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages. Volume 3. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known original and coastal views and the original engravings associated with them, together with the running journal of James King 1779-80.
Chief Editor ANDREW DAVID. Assistant editors for the views RÜDIGER JOPPIEN and BERNARD SMITH. 1997. pp. cxxxvi + 319. Colour frontispiece, 22 colour plates, 298 half tone plates.
ISBN 0 904180 55 7.

47. Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe. Edited by DANIEL CAREY and CLAIRE JOWITT. 2012. pp. 398. 25 mono plates, 4 colour plates.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0017-2; eBook ISBN 978-1-4094-4800-6.