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Pundit Map 1868
A 19th CE map generated by one of the pundits who worked for the British in India. The map shows the pundits route up the Trisuli Valley into Kyirong, over to Tsum, up the Nubri Valley, and into Tibet. Many villages are marked on the route. This is…
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards.
Done into English from the Original Spanish of Don Antonio, Secretary and Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. By Thomas Townsend, Esq.
Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas i tierra firme del mar oceano.
Escrita por Antonio de Herrera, coronista mayor de Su Md. d[e] las Indias y su coronista de Castilla ; en quatro decadas desde el año de 1442 hasta el de [1]531 ..
(Bound with several works which have engraved title pages)
(Bound with several works which have engraved title pages)
Historia de Nueva-Espana, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes.
Aumentada con otros docvmentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo Senor Don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, arzobispo de Mexico. Con las licencias necesarias
Herman Cortes arrived in the West Indies in 1504, traveled on to Cuba in 1511 and marched into…
Herman Cortes arrived in the West Indies in 1504, traveled on to Cuba in 1511 and marched into…
Le Miroir de la Cruelle, & horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas, par le Tyran Duc de Albe, & aultres Comandeurs de par le roy Philippe le deuxiesme.
On a adjoinct la deuxiesme partie de les tyrannies commises aux Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols. Nouvellement exorne avec taille douce en cuyvre.
Bound with Casas, Bartolome de las. Le Miroir de la Tyrannie.
Bound with Casas, Bartolome de las. Le Miroir de la Tyrannie.
An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians.
By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa ... Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling
Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish missionary and historian often referred to as "the defender of the Indians." He came to…
Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish missionary and historian often referred to as "the defender of the Indians." He came to…
An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.
Voyages successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up From the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joseph…
A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World.
Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure; In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 …
On Captain James Cook's final voyage to the South Seas on January 15, 1779 Cook's ships, the Resolution and the Discovery approached the…
On Captain James Cook's final voyage to the South Seas on January 15, 1779 Cook's ships, the Resolution and the Discovery approached the…