Series III: Vols. 1 - 8.

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London: The Hakluyt Society 1999-2001. Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. navy blue cloth. Gilt. Dustjackets (small tear to spine of Vol. 1). With frontisps. maps facsimile pages and illusts. Fine. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. The inaugural volumes of the Third Series introducing a new larger format to the smaller Second Series that began in 1899 culminating with Vol. 190. The 8 vols. here offered comprise - (1) Searching for Franklin the Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855; (2) The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson 1623; (3) The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant 1647-1656; (4) The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands 1819-1820: The Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter; (5) Pieter van den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde Guinea and Angola 1605-1612; (6) The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578; (7) Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan; and (8) The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina Volume 1 - Cadiz to Panama.