17Th Century category: 857 books

Cover of The Mayflower
by Kate Caffrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014

The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living. During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim...
Cover of Captain John Smith

Captain John Smith

Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

by Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008

"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was...
Cover of The Last Royal Rebel

The Last Royal Rebel

The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

by Anna Keay
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

The absorbing tale of how this legendary rogue became the champion of parliamentary monarchy and changed the course of English history. At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing...
Cover of The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Three narratives of voyages to the Pacific, translated and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 15) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1904. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to...
Cover of The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Continued in First Series 55, 62, and 69. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1875.
Cover of The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, from the 1554 Antwerp edition. Continued from another source in First Series 68. The supplementary material includes the 1864 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1864.
Cover of The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, Containing an Account of his Expedition to Honduras
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated from the Original Spanish. The letter is dated 1526. The supplementary material consists of the 1868 annual report. First published: 1868.
Cover of The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1

The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1

Translated from Fray Pedro Simon's 'Sixth historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme'

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627. The supplementary material includes the 1861 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1861.
Cover of The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, continuing the narrative from First Series 33. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.
Cover of First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

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.
Cover of History of the New World, by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan

History of the New World, by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan

Shewing his Travels in America, from A.D. 1541 to 1556: with some Particulars of the Island of Canary

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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Translated from the text originally published at Venice, 1572. The supplementary material consists of the 1857 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1857.
Cover of The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman, a Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated from an Original and Inedited Manuscript in the National Library at Madrid; with Notes and an Introduction'. Includes accounts of travel in Europe and Peru. The supplementary material includes the 1862 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1862, with an Introduction by Clements R. Markham. 1861.
Cover of Civil Wars in Peru, The war of Las Salinas, by Pedro de Cieza de León
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 42. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1923.
Cover of Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Includes the following accounts: Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the land of Cinnamon, A.D. 1539-42, translated from the 2d pt. of Garcilasso Inca de la Vega's 'Royal commentaries of Peru'; The voyage of Francisco de Orellana down the river of the Amazons, A.D. 1540-1, translated from the sixth decade...
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