I don't think there's a way to see the publication date, except on the book's copyright page at the beginning.
I added all of my books via Calibre, and when I sort by date added, my series all appear in numerical order regardless of what order I actually added them. Must be some sort of "hidden" setting within Calibre.
There was a thread earlier about how to manually put your series in order using the Reader software...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=104732&page=2