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printed list and descriptions of commodities

General orders of the government of officers in the plantations

H. Teape

1764-1805

The Isle of Pines

Henry Neville

1668

Detail of a colored, engraved map shows "Florida," "Virginia," and partial view of frontispiece with text in English.

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St. Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines

Baptista Boazio

1589

Detail of a printed book shows title page with English text "The English Pilot. The Fourth Book describing the West India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones" in red ink.

The English pilot, Book 4

William Fisher; John Thornton

1745

Detail of an engraved map of northeastern North America shows "Maryland," "Virginia," and other labels in English for forts and bodies of water.

[A new chart of the English Empire in North America]

Cyprian Southack

1717

Engraved, hand colored illustration. Labels in English read [top] "The Leguana or Iguana Lizard of Guiana, [bottom] "The Alligator or Cayman of Surinam."

Narrative, of a five years' expedition,

John Gabriel Stedman

1796

Detail of a printed book shows title page with manuscript notations throughout the blank spaces on the page.

An essay towards the reconciling of differences among Christians...

Roger Williams

circa 1645

Detail of an engraved map shows people standing around a tent that is surrounded by a grid layout.

A View of Savanah as it stood the 29th of March. 1734

Peter Gordon

1734

image of an open book with a colorful image of insects on a tropical plant and printed text

By a Lady: Women and Natural History in the Americas, 1650-1830

September 2019

Open House

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

Saturday, April 16 at 11:00am

people sailing in a boat, shark in the bottom right corner

Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana

Spring 2019

printed title page of a religious text in Algonquian and English

I found it at the JCB

A healthy conversion: John Eliot, Robert Boyle, and the Algonquians

January 1

frontispiece of Aurora Australis 20th century book

Newly Catalogued: The Aurora Australis

October 24

cover of "A Biography of a Map in Motion" by Christian J Koot

Fresh Ink

Fresh Ink: A Biography of a Map in Motion by Christian J. Koot

March 8

Watch "Ten Things I Learned from Shakespeare"

December 5

printed map of the world showing some lines of latitude and names of winds