Genre

Book

Featured Items

Detail of a printed book shows an illustration of a nun holding a cross to her chest.

La vie de la venerable mere Marie de l'Incarnation premiere superieure des ursulines de la Nouvelle France

Claude Martin
1677
Detail of a printed book shows a colored illustrated dragons on a circular diagram with text in Latin.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Peter Apian
1540
Detail of a printed books shows text in Latin and decorative typography.

De Aequinoctiorum Solsticiorumque Inventione

Albert Pigghe
1520
Detail of a fold-out printed map shows town square in the center, surrounding buildings, and ships at sea at the outer perimeter.

Praeclara Ferdina[n]di.

Hernán Cortés
1524
Detail from a printed text shows questions and follow-up answers about astronomy.

An astronomical and geographical catechism. For the use of children.

Caleb Bingham
1795
Detail of brown book binding shows the embossed details.

La istoria de las Indias. y Conquista de Mexico

López de Gómara
1552
Detail of an engraved title page shows medallion portraits at the border, a coat of arms, and text in Spanish.

Historia general de las conquistas del nuevo reyno de Granada

Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita
1688
Detail from a printed text a series of four illustrations that depict the journey by ship to the Isle of Pines.

The Isle of Pines

Henry Neville
1668

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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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Image depicting an angel hovering over Mary and Jesus

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

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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

17th Century

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