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During the past year the following books have been issued 

 to subscribers : 



" The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake", 1577-80, 

 ■written by Francis Fletcher, preacher, etc., collated with 

 an unpublished manuscript by the same writer, with ap- 

 pendices of various other elucidatory MSS. and printed 

 documents, which together form a most interesting collec- 

 tion in illustration of the voyage in question. Edited by 

 W. Sandys Vaux, Esq., M.A. The volume is accompanied 

 by a copy of a most interesting cotemporaneous and supposed 

 unique map of the world in hemispheres, by Hondius, 

 indicating the track of Drake and Candish. This valuable 

 map, which was purchased by the British Museum as unique, 

 is especially remarkable for its extreme beauty, when the 

 date at which it was constructed is taken into consideration. 



" The 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 Fere Pierre Joseph D'Orleans, of the company of 

 Jesus. With the addition of 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 the Secretary of the 

 Society. 



Meanwhile, the following works are in progress : — 



A Collection of Early Documents on Spitzbergen 

 AND Greenland, consisting of a translation from the German 

 of F. INIarten's important work on Spitzbergen, now very 

 rare. A translation from Isaac de la Peyrere's Relation de 

 Groenland, first printed in 1647, with a small tract on 

 Greenland, entitled, " God's Power and Providence shewed 

 in the miraculous preservation and deliverance of eight 

 Englishmen, left by mischance in Greenland, anno 1630, 

 nine moneths and twelve days, faithfully reported by Edward 

 Pelham." Edited, with Notes, by Adam White, Esq., of 

 the British Museum. 



A Collection of Embassies to Russia in the reigns 

 OF Queen Elizabeth and King James I : comprising, 

 '' The Russe Commonwealth by Giles Fletcher", suppressed 

 by order of Queen Elizabeth. Sir Thomas Smithe's " Yoiage 

 and Entertainment in Rushia"; London, 1605 ; and Trades- 

 cant's " Viagc of Ambassad", now first printed entire from 

 the MS. in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Edited by 

 E. A. Bond, Esq., of the British Museum. 



The East India Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton. 

 To be Edited by Bolton Corney, Esq. 



