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Featured Items

Detail of a manuscript title page shows red and black ink used for titular text and birds.

Philosophia Iesuitico, Aristotelico, Thomistica, Angelico...

Francisco de los Rios

1766

Detail of a hand-colored manuscript map shows small depth markers, forest, and a label "Nuevitas" and other surrounding landmarks.

Plano del Puerto de Nuevitas en la Costa Norte de la Isla de Cuba levantado para mejor conocimiento por orden del Dto. Maritimo

circa 1828

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 of an engraved city plan of Queretaro shows numbered blocks in the city layout.

Ordenanza que para la division de la m. noble y leal ciudad de Santiago de Queretaro en cuarteles menores, creacion de alcaldes de ellos, y reglas para su gobierno.

1796

Detail from the binding of a manuscript codex shows text in Spanish "3. Soledad."

Spiritual autobiography

María de San José

1703-1710

Detail of brown book binding shows the embossed details.

La istoria de las Indias. y Conquista de Mexico

López de Gómara

1552

Detail of a printed map shows text in Spanish reading "La Puna" and other labels over landmarks.

Carta de la Provincia de Quito y sus Adjacentes

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

1750

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

In House

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

February 24, 2020

Printed fold-out map shows topography of Colombia in great detail. Includes decorative cartouche, illustration of two naked people sitting facing each other, and scales.

200 Years of Colombian Independence

image of terrestrial sphere including Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Lecture on the African-European Encounter to Kick Off New JCB Initiative (and 75th Anniversary Meeting)

August 23, 2019

Lecture

Engaged Digital Scholarship: The Ticha Project and Zapotec language archival texts

Wednesday, March 27 at 4:00pm

Fellow's Talk

“unos a otros se ayuden”: Colonial Encounters with Maya Houses and Housebuilding

Wednesday, February 24 at 12:00pm

Lecture

¿Una Bíblia Políglota Mesoamericana del siglo XVI? Las Epístolas y Evangelios en p'urhepecha en la Biblioteca John Carter Brown

Tuesday, May 17 at 4:00pm