Genre

Book

Featured Items

The spine and back cover of Lettre d'une Peruvienne shows deteriorated calf binding.

Lettres d'une Peruvienne

Françoise de Graffigny
1748
Detail of a printed book shows red binding with gold details at the borders of the boards and all along the spine.

Guia política, eclesiástica y militar del Virreynato del Perú

Hipólito Unanue
1795
Detail of a printed book shows text in French.

Lettre aux Espagnols-Américains

Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzman
1799
Book bound in white silk and decorated with the coat of arms of the Portuguese family and silver and gold beads.

Diario ecclesiastico para os Bispados do Rio de Janeiro, S. Paulo, e Marianna

1808
Detail of a printed book shows worn papers and header text reading "An Anagram. Anna Bradestreate" and other text in English.

The tenth muse lately sprung up in America

Anne Bradstreet
1650
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 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
Engraved fold-out map shows Greenland spelled "Grœnland" and other text in German.

Historie von Grönland

David Cranz
1765-1770

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image of an opened book showing printed text on one page and an image of a man smoking tobacco on the opposite page

New World, New Eyes: America in Early Children's Books

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printers work a printing press

Printers' Devils and Printers' Delights: The Book in Spanish America

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a Mohawk man teaches children in a schoolhouse

Controlling Colonial Impressions

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Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World

Spring 2017
printed title page of a religious text in Algonquian and English
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A healthy conversion: John Eliot, Robert Boyle, and the Algonquians

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detail of a page from a Mexican incunable book printed between 1539 to 1600
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64 Mexican incunables and counting

May 5, 2018
19th century illustration of chichona bark, quina, cascarilla, Jesuit's Bark plant
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Exploring Quina in the JCB Collections

April 12, 2018
detail from a page in Charles de Rochefort’s Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique 1681

A View of Slave Cabins on the Margins

March 8, 2018

See Also

American Revolutions

Colonial Law