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Engraved fold-out map shows Greenland spelled "Grœnland" and other text in German.

Historie von Grönland

David Cranz
1765-1770
Detail of a printed text shows an astronomical circular diagram and text in English.

An account of the observation of Venus upon the sun...

Benjamin West
1769
Detail of a printed book shows a page with text in French and an illustration on the opposite page.

Code Noir: ou Recueil d’edits, déclarations et arrets concernant les Esclaves Nègres de l’Amérique

1743
Detail of a printed book shows a page with text in Dutch.

Pertinent en waarachtig verhaal van alle de handelingen en directie van Pedro Van Belle

1689
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 page shows text in Latin.

Christoforo Columbus, de insulis inventis, 1493

1493
Detail of a printed book shows text in Spanish reading "Los oficios de secretario, Contador, tesorero" and so on.

Ereccion del consulado de Montevideo

1827
Detail of title page shows red and black printed text reading "Oronoko, traduit de l'anglois, de Madame Behn."

Oronoko

Aphra Behn
1745

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Visual Thinking in the Archive: Mesoamerican Codices at the JCB

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

June 21, 2019
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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

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