Follows on from First Series 86, with continuous main pagination. This volume contains documents relating to early English voyages to West Africa. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.

Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 87) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.