Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891
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1818-1891
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Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891
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Major, Richard Henry
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- Notes upon Russia, being a translation of the earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii, by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein ; translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, by R.H. Major
- History of the two Tartar conquerors of China, including the two journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest, in the suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi, from the French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orleans ; to which is added Father Pereira's journey into Tartary in the suite of the same emperor, from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen ; translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere ; with an introduction by R.H. Major
- The Canarian, or, Book of the conquest and conversion of the Canarians in the year 1402, by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, ... Composed by Pierre Bontier and Jean Le Verrier. Translated and edited, with notes and an introd., by Richard Henry Major
- The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof, compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke ; edited by Sir George T. Staunton ; with an introduction by R.H. Major
- Early voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia, a collection of documents and extracts from early manuscript maps, illustrative of the history of discovery on the coasts of that vast island from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the time of Captain Cook, edited with an introduction by R.H. Major
- The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century, comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in America before Columbus., Translated and edited with notes and an introd. by Richard Henry Major
- Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New World, tr. and ed. by R.H. Major
- The historie of travaile into Virginia Britannia, expressing the cosmographie and comodies of the country, together with the manners and customes of the people, gathered and observed as well by those who went first thither as collected by William Strachey
- Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New World, tr. and ed. by R.H. Major
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