1999-2008 Works from The Hakluyt Society

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Six volumes of work issued by The Hakluyt Society. 

Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has been centrally concerned with the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels, with some 370 volumes published. The Hakluyt Society is named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels and other documents relating to English interests overseas, his most celebrated work being The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation.

This collection of six volumes come from the third series. Each volume has a frontispiece and is illustrated throughout. 

The collection includes:
The Discovery of River Gambra (1623) by Richard Jobson (1999), is no.2 in the third series. 
The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant 1647-1656 is edited by Michael G. Brennan (1999), is no. 3. 
Peter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) (2002), is edited and translated by J. D. La Fleur and is no. 5.
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 (2001) is edited by James McDermott and is no.6. 
The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846, The Journals of Charles Sturt (2002), is edited by Richard C. Davis and is no. 10. 
A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia Ibn Al-Mujawair's Tarikh Al-Mustabsir (2008) is edited and translated by G. Rex Smith and is no. 19. ]

All are in the original unclipped dust wrappers.