Columbus volume depicts Magellan’s ship ‘Victoria’, chosen by William Desborough Cooley, founder of the Society, because it was ‘a monument to the most remarkable voyage ever performed’ – the first circumnavigation of the world. Adopted by the Society, this logo is still used.]]> [Christopher Columbus]]]> Book covers]]> The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 (1847). Initially there were two other contenders for publication: a new edition of Hakluyt’s own Divers Voyages, and the 1606 voyage of Sir Henry Middleton. Although the Hawkins was a reprint (it first appeared in 1622), it contains the beginnings of all the scholarly apparatus that would feature in later Society publications: rigorous editing, footnotes, citations, bibliography, maps, and indexes.]]> [Richard Hawkins]]]> Books]]> Alonso de Espinosa (Translated and edited by Sir Clements R. Markham)]]> Books ]]> Charles Earner Kempe]]> Photograph]]> Divers Voyages (1582) and was a means of attracting investors and prospective colonists to Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s (c. 1539-83) proposed Norombega (Newfoundland) colony. It is described as ‘one of the most bizarre Arctic maps ever drawn’: Greenland is in three bits; Florida is unusually close to Canada; and there is the mysterious island of Lok. Gilbert’s 1582 colonising expedition failed and he was lost at sea in a storm off the Azores in 1583.]]> David Beers Quinn]]> Books]]> Esmeraldo, shows the west coast of Africa, including Morocco, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and the Gabon. It shows Pacheco’s bearings and distances; his measurements were generally accurate ‘averaging little more than forty minutes out’. The tip of Spain is visible at the top of the map while the Equator is the bottom line.]]> Duarte Pacheco Pereira]]> Books]]> Esmeraldo (c. 1505) is a ‘rutter’ (roteiro – Portuguese), a ‘mariner’s handbook of written sailing instructions’. It describes routes, hazards, soundings, tides, and much more, and it is the ‘only detailed contemporary eye witness’s description of the coasts of Africa’. However, in Pereira’s time, the Portuguese government were keen to maintain secrecy and protect their monopoly of trade in the region so they suppressed the work; as they did with other ‘maps, nautical instructions, and pilots’ observations’. Their eagerness to maintain secrecy hindered the development of nautical science.]]> Duarte Pacheco Pereira]]> Books]]> Seaman’s Secrets – an ‘exact and comprehensive’ treatise of contemporary navigational science. It went through eight editions from 1594 to 1657.]]> Edited by Albert Hastings Markham]]> Books]]> Endeavour, descriptions of surveying methods, and biographical details of the surveyors, draughtsmen, and artists on board. Importantly, it contains the 320 charts and coastal views produced on board the ship. This image features the profiles of the ‘Watering Place’ in Queen Charlottes Sound. Esmond de Beer generously funded the production of this first volume.]]> Edited by Andrew David]]> Books]]> Edited by Andrew David]]> Books]]> Edited by Andrew Wawn]]> Books]]> Edited by Clements R. Markham]]> Books]]> Edited by David Beers Quinn]]> Books]]> Edited by Douglas Carruthers]]> Books]]> Edited by Douglas Carruthers]]> Books]]> Edited by E. W. Bovill]]> Books]]> Edited by Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor]]> Books]]> Dolphin, Carteret, in command of the Swallow, went on to discover Pitcairn Island, to re-discover Mendaña’s Santa Cruz, and to name Gower Island, part of the Solomon Island Archipelago. The original of Edward Leigh’s map of the Strait, and Carteret’s journal are in the Dixson Collection, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.]]> Edited by Helen Wallis]]> Books]]> Resolution and Discovery.]]> Edited by J. C. Beaglehole]]> Books]]> Edited by J. C. Beaglehole]]> Books]]> Edited by James D. La Fleur]]> Books]]> Edited by Kenneth R. Andrews]]> Books]]> Edited by Lt.-Col. Sir Richard Carnac Temple]]> Books]]> Edited by Malcolm Letts]]> Books]]> Edited by Malcolm Letts]]> Books]]>