Series of files belonging to successive Honorary Secretaries of the Hayluyt Society, relating to proposals which did not become Society publications. Files 4-61 appear on lists EI and EII compiled by Eila Campbell, and files 62-74 appear on lists of files transferred from Terence Armstrong's Offi...
Series of files belonging to successive Honorary Secretaries of the Hayluyt Society, relating to proposals which were completed, but which did not become Society publications. The files appear on list 'C', possibly compiled by Eila Campbell.
Files Relating to Published Works: Principal Navigations
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Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of a photolithographic reprint of The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt (London: 1589).
Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of Ma Huan: Ying-yai sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores (1433), translated and edited by J.V.G. Mills.
Files Relating to Published Works: Edmond Halley's Voyages
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Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of volumes of The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701, edited by Norman J.W. Thrower (1982)
Files Relating to Published Works: Voyages of Captain James Cook
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Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of various volumes of The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, and also The Life of Captain James Cook (1974).
Files Relating to Published Works: The Travels of Ibn Battuta
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Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of volumes of The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325-1354, edited by H.A.R. Gibb. Volume 1 (110) was published in 1958, volume II (117) in 1962, and volume III (141) in 1971.
Files Relating to Published Works: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
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Papers relating to the publication by the Hakluyt Society of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea by an unknown author with some extracts from Agatharkhides 'On the Erythraean Sea', translated and edited by G.W.B. Huntingford, 1980 (1976). For papers relating to the Society's attempts to publish ...