Hakluyt and the East India Company: A Documentary and Bibliographical Review Introduction

of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies 1600–1619 (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893) (an edition of British Library IOR/B/2); John Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company, from Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707–8, vol. [...] A Letter Written to the Right Worshipfull the Governours and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London: Containing the Estate of the East Indian Fleete, with the Names of the Chiefe Men of Note Dead in the Voyage (London: [R. [...] Wherein Is Set Downe the Order and Manner of Their Trafficke, the Discription of the Countries, the Nature of the People and Their Language, with the Names of All the Men Dead in the Voyage (London: [R. [...] Containing Much Varietie of the State of the Severall Kingdomes Where They Have Traded: With the Letters of Three Severall Kings to the Kings Maiestie of England, Begun by One of the Voyage: Since Continued Out of the Faithfull Observations of Them That Are Come Home (London: T. [...] The informative introduction (in Japanese) by Hirano Kenichiro to the recent reprint of the facsimile has been translated by him as ‘On the Toyo Bunko Version of The First Voyage of the English to the Islands of Japan by John Saris, 1617: An Annotation Attached to the Photocopy of the Book, Published for Toyo Bunko by Bensei Shuppan Publishers, Tokyo, 2016’, available at .