IxDiA IX THE Fifteenth Century. A collection of 

 documents, comprising, in the first place, a translation of 

 the travels of Abd-er-Rizak, ambassador from Shah-E,okh in 

 the years 1441-2-3, translated from the Persian into French 

 by M. de Quatremere, and published in the " Notices des 

 Manuscrits", tome xvi, 1843. And, secondly, " The travels 

 in India of the Venetians Nicolo de' Conti and Giorgio di 

 San Stefano." Translated from the Latin and Italian by 

 J. Winter Jones, Esq., of the British Museum. The former 

 of these last two documents will be translated from the ori- 

 ginal Latin, first printed in Paris in 1723, by Dominicus 

 Georgius, in the fourth book of his edition of Poggio 

 Bracciolini's " Historiae de varietate fortunae libri quatuor". 

 Ramusio, in his " Navigatione et Viaggi", states that he 

 made great efforts to discover the original, but without 

 success, and was obliged to content himself with a Portuguese 

 translation, full of inaccuracies, which he again translated 

 into Italian for his great collection. The original Latin, 

 apart from the important quality of being authentic, renders 

 easy and intelligible many passages which are full of obscurity 

 in the Italian of Ramusio. And, thirdly, " The travels of 

 the Russian traveller Anastasius Nikitin." Translated by 

 Count Wielhorsky, late Secretary to the Russian Legation 

 at the Court of St. James's, from the Russian MS. procured 

 for the Society by Sir Roderick Murchison from the cele- 

 brated and wealthy monastery called the Laura of St. Sergius, 

 under the Invocation of the Blessed Trinity, near Moscow. 

 The work to be edited by J. Winter Jones, Esq., F.S.A., 

 of the British Museum. 



The Travels of Girolamo Benzoni, in America, in 

 1541 ; the first traveller (as such) in the New World, and 

 whose w^ritings form the basis of the American portion of 

 the great collection of travels compiled by Theodore de Bry. 

 To be translated and edited by Admiral W. H. Smyth. 



A Collection of Documents on the Early Dis- 

 coveries IN Australia. To be edited by Captain C. R. 

 Drinkwater Bethune, R.N., C.B. 



Other works promised by Editors are : — 



A Collection of Early' Documents, to form a Supple- 

 ment to the " Narrative of Voyages towards the North 

 West", by T. Rundall, Esq. 



Sofalah. The History of Eastern Ethiopia, by J. dos 

 Santos, 1607. To be Translated and Edited, with Notes, 

 by W. Desborough Cooley, Esq. 



