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XPLORATIONS by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

(Translated from the rare originals (Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, etc.), many of which are now published for the first time; edited and annotated by, A.M., of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, assistant editor of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, and , Ph.D.; with historical introduction and notes by , Professor of History in Yale University, chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the American Historical Association, etc.; and special contributions by well-known scholars and bibliographers. Also a full Bibliography and Analytical Index.

Illustrated with facsimiles of rare and unique originals, manuscripts, maps, portraits, views, etc.

The edition is limited to one thousand numbered sets. Fifty-five volumes, large 8vo, about 325 pages per volume, cloth, uncut, gilt top. Price, $4.00 net per volume.