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Title: Publications of the Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Nos. 1-27 Author: Place: London Publisher: Hakluyt Society Date: 1999-2014 Description: 27 volumes (all published to date). Edited by R.J. Howgego. (8vo) original cloth, dust jackets. PUBLICATIONS OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY Third Series. Compiled by R. J. Howgego Nos. 1 - 27 (1999 - 2014) 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. Transcripts of letters and journals from various archives relating to the Arctic expedition of James Stewart and James Anderson With explanatory text and a critical evaluation. 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. Edition of Jobson’s account of his voyage up the River Gambia, the earliest to survive in English, and first published in 1623; his journal, first published by Purchas in 1625; and a petition. Including translations of earlier Portuguese accounts of the river. 3. The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant (1647-1656). Edited by Michael G. Brennan. 1999. pp. xix + 288. 17 illustrations. Full transcript of a manuscript journal in the Bodleian Library detailing four separate journeys, two between Constantinople and England, by sea and overland, one to Spain and Venice and one from Venice to England. With an introduction and assessment of the importance of the journal. 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. Transcripts of Midshipman Poynter’s firsthand account of the voyage, and other transcripts of contemporary documents relating to various voyages to the South Shetland Islands. With an introduction and historical evaluation. 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. An English translation from an original manuscript that was first published in an abridged and altered form in 1634. The translation is of that section of the manuscript describing four trading voyages to Africa and is extensively annotated. With an explanatory introduction. 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. Transcripts of various contemporary accounts of this voyage. Some are transcripts of manuscripts published for the first time, including journals and ships’ logs, and others are new editions of contemporary printed accounts. With an introduction. 7. João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan. Edited by Michael Cooper 2001. pp. xli + 428. 30 monochrome plates. An annotated translation from the Portuguese of Rodrigues’s account of Japanese life and culture. Reproduced in English for the first time. With an introduction, including an account of Rodrigues’s separate ‘History’. 8. The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina / Volume I / Cadiz to Panama. Edited by Andrew David Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi and Glyndwr Williams. 2001. pp. xcviii + 338. 39 colour and monochrome plates, 9 maps. Volume one. Translations from the Spanish of Malaspina’s journals 1789-1790 covering his travels round South America. With appendices of related correspondence and papers. The introduction includes an explanation of Malaspina’s original intention to produce an edition of his voyages in seven volumes. For volume two see Third Series 11. 9. The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768. Ed