Genre

Book

Featured Items

Detail of a printed page shows text in Latin.

Christoforo Columbus, de insulis inventis, 1493

1493
Detail from a printed book shows text in Spanish including "Ensayo" at the top of the page.

Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada

Francisco Jose de Caldas
1808
Printed title page includes decorative border and text in English reading "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully translated into English metre." Left side of the page shows manuscript notations.

The whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre

1640
Detail of a printed book shows a fold-out illustration of stones outside of a buildings facade.

Descripcion de las antiguedades de Xochicalco

Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez
1791
Detail of printed frontispiece shows two men on either side of French title.

Le miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetrée aux Indes Occidentales

Bartolomé de las Casas
1620
Detail of a printed book shows full-page illustrations of plants. Text in Latin also visible.

Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos

Garcia de Orta
1567
Detail of a printed text in Greek and manuscript notations of triangles and Greek text written in the margins.

Opera omnia

Aristotle
1495-1499
Two books bound in vellum with manuscript writing on them are pictured on top of each other.

L'Americana Ramminga

Pietro Chiari
1764

Related

printed title page with text in Spanish
In House

Diario de las operaciones de la expedicion contra la Plaza de Panzacola...

February 24, 2020
Open House

First Folio Enters the Global Stage: A Walk Around the World Through 23 Book in the JCB

Image from: Tovar Codex-El modo de baylar de los Mexicanos. 17a y última del primer tratado. [Juan de Tovar 1585]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Workshop

Visual Thinking in the Archive: Mesoamerican Codices at the JCB

Ticha Project: JCB's Digitized Texts Take on New Life

June 21, 2019
colored plan of the city of Antwerp, Belgium

Melchor Pérez de Soto: A Book Collector Faces the Inquisition

Summer - Fall 2011
printed text in Hebrew

Jews and the Americas: 165 Years of Collecting at the JCB

Fall 2010 - Winter 2011
people sailing in a boat, shark in the bottom right corner

Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana

Spring 2019
hand-colored image depicting a scene in Asia

America and the China Trades, 1750-1850

Fall 2010

See Also

South America

Indigenous Languages