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Established in 1846, the Society has to date published over 350 volumes. All editions are in English. Although a substantial number of the Society's past editions relate to British ventures, with documentary sources in English, the majority concern non-British enterprises and are based on texts in languages other than English. Material originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French or Dutch has regularly appeared, material in Russian, Greek, Latin, Ethiopic, Chinese, Persian or Arabic occasionally.
All editions contain an introduction and scholarly annotation, giving both the general reader and the student a degree of assistance in understanding the material and providing guidance on the relevance of the episodes described, within the context of global development and world history. Volumes are often generously furnished with maps and contemporary illustrations.
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Edited
By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010
'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in ...
Edited
By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010
See First Series 36 for the first volume, with which this has a continuous pagination. Contains contemporary notices of Cathay under the Mongols, from Rashiduddin; Pegolotti's notices of the land route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century; Marignolli's recollections of eastern ...
By Henry Yule
July 28, 2010
Volume I: 'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-...
Edited
By C.C.A. Gosch
July 28, 2010
Continued in First Series 97. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897....
Edited
By C.C.A. Gosch
July 28, 2010
Continues First Series 96. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897....
Edited
By Charles Henry Coote, Edward Delmar Morgan
July 28, 2010
Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continues from First Series 72, with continuous pagination. The...
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continued in First Series 45. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1869....
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continues First Series 41. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1871....
Edited
By R.H. Major
July 28, 2010
Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The first edition of the Commentarii appeared in Vienna in 1549, but it is not clear which edition was used for this translation. Continued in First Series 12. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in ...
By Edgar Prestage, Charles Raymond Beazley
July 28, 2010
Contains the translation and edition of chapters 1-40 of the chronicle, continued in First Series 100. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896....
Edited
By Charles Raymond Beazley, Edgar Prestage
July 28, 2010
This continues the translation and edtion of the chronicle from First Series 95, with chapters 41-97, and 'an Introduction on the early History of African Exploration, Cartography, etc.' This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899....
Edited
By Walter de Gray Birch
July 28, 2010
This is translated from Part ii of the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Continues from First Series 53, and continued in 62, and 69. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877....