Ecuador -- History -- To 1809; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Pizarro, Gonzalo, -1548
The Original Documents in which his career is recorded. Collected,
partly Translated, & annotated with an Introduction by GEORGE MICHAEL
ASHER, LL.D. pp. ccxviii. 292. 2 Maps. Bibliography. Index.
_Issued for 1860._
28--The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre,
In search of El Dorado and Omagua, in 1560-61. Translated from Fray
PEDRO SIMON’S “Sixth Historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme,”
1627, by WILLIAM BOLLAERT, F.R.G.S. With an Introduction by SIR CLEMENTS
R. MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S., ex-Pres. R.G.S. pp. lii. 237. 1 Map.
_Issued for 1861._
29--The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman.
A Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543.
Translated from an original & inedited MS. in the National Library at
Madrid. With Notes and an Introduction by SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM,
K.C.B., F.R.S., ex-Pres. R.G.S. pp. xxxv. 168. 1 Illus.
_Issued for 1862._
30--The Discoveries of the World,
From their first original unto the year of our Lord 1555. By ANTONIO
GALVANO, Governor of Ternate. [Edited by F. DE SOUSA TAVARES.]
Corrected, quoted, & published in England by RICHARD HAKLUYT, 1601. Now
reprinted, with the original Portuguese text (1563), and edited by
ADMIRAL CHARLES RAMSAY DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. pp. iv. viiii. 242.
_Issued for 1862._
31--Mirabilia Descripta. The Wonders of the East.
By FRIAR JORDANUS, of the Order of Preachers & Bishop of Columbum in
India the Greater, _circa_ 1330. Translated from the Latin Original, as
published at Paris in 1839, in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires_,
of the Societé de Géographie. With the addition of a Commentary, by COL.
SIR HENRY YULE, K.C.S.I., R.E., C.B. pp. iv. xviii. 68. Index.
_Issued for 1863._
32--The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema,
In Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India, & Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508.
Translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, with a Preface, by
JOHN WINTER JONES, F.S.A., Principal Librarian of the British Museum, &
Edited, with Notes & an Introduction, by the REV. GEORGE PERCY BADGER.
pp. cxxi. 321. 1 Map. Index.
_Issued for 1863._
33--The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Leon, A.D. 1532-50,
From the Gulf of Darien to the City of La Plata, contained in the first
part of his Chronicle of Peru (Antwerp, 1554). Translated & Edited, with
Notes & an Introduction, by SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S.,
ex-Pres. R.G.S. pp. xvi. lvii. 438. Index.
(Vol. 2 = No. 68.)
_Issued for 1864._
34--Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila,
In the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Castilla del Oro, & of the discovery
of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua. Written by the
Adelantado Pascual de Andagoya. Translated and Edited, with Notes & an
Introduction, by SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, K.C.B., F.R.S., ex-Pres.
R.G.S. pp. xxix. 88. 1 Map. Index.
_Issued for 1865._
35--A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar,
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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