Ecuador -- History -- To 1809; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Pizarro, Gonzalo, -1548
5--Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West,
In search of a Passage to Cathay & India, 1496 to 1631. With selections
from the early Records of ... the East India Company and from MSS.
in the British Museum. Edited by THOMAS RUNDALL. pp. xx. 259. 2 Maps.
_(Out of print.) Issued for 1849._
6--The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia,
Expressing the Cosmographie and Commodities of the Country, together
with the manners and customs of the people, gathered and observed as
well by those who went first thither as collected by WILLIAM STRACHEY,
Gent., the first Secretary of the Colony. Now first edited from the
original MS. in the British Museum by RICHARD HENRY MAJOR, F.S.A.,
Keeper of Maps, British Museum, Sec. R.G.S. pp. xxxvi. 203. 1 Map. 6
Illus. Glossary. Index.
_(Out of print.) Issued for 1849._
7--Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America.
And the Islands adjacent, collected and published by RICHARD HAKLUYT,
Prebendary of Bristol, in the year 1582. Edited, with notes & an
introduction by JOHN WINTER JONES, Principal Librarian of the British
Museum. pp. xci. 171. 6. 2 Maps, 1 Illus. Index.
_(Out of print.) Issued for 1850._
12--The Countries round the Bay of Bengal.
Edited, from an unpublished MS., 1669-79, by THOMAS BOWREY, by Col. SIR
RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE, Bart., C.I.E. pp. lvi. 387. 19 Illus. & 1 Chart.
Bibliography. Index.
_Issued for 1903._
8--Memorials of the Empire of Japon,
In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (The Kingdome of Japonia.
Harl. MSS. 6249.--The Letters of Wm. Adams, 1611 to 1617.) With a
Commentary by THOMAS RUNDALL. pp. xxxviii. 186. 1 Map. 5 Illus.
_(Out of print.) Issued for 1850._
9--The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida,
By Don Ferdinando de Soto, & six hundred Spaniards his followers.
Written by a Gentleman of Elvas, employed in all the action, and
translated out of Portuguese by RICHARD HAKLUYT. Reprinted from the
edition of 1611. Edited with Notes & an Introduction, & a Translation of
a Narrative of the Expedition by LUIS HERNANDEZ DE BIEDMA, Factor to the
same, by WILLIAM BRENCHLEY RYE, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum.
pp. lxvii. 200. v. 1 Map. Index.
_(Out of print.) Issued for 1851._
10--Notes upon Russia,
Being a Translation from the Earliest Account of that Country, entitled
Rerum Muscoviticarum Commentarii, by the BARON SIGISMUND VON
HERBERSTEIN, Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Prince
Vasiley Ivanovich, in the years 1517 and 1526. Translated and Edited
with Notes & an Introduction, by RICHARD HENRY MAJOR, F.S.A., Keeper of
Maps, British Museum, Sec. R.G.S. Vol. 1. pp. clxii. 116. 2 Illus.
(Vol. 2 = No. 12.)
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11--The Geography of Hudson’s Bay,
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