Period

16th Century

Featured Items

Detail of gold JCB stamp on black binding.

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Edward Wright
1598
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 colored manuscript map shows the Black Sea with labels. Decorative border includes red, blue, and green ink and gilded details.

Battista Agnese atlas

Battista Agnese
1543-1545
Detail of a printed book shows a circular illustration and text in Spanish.

Suma de geographia...

Martin Fernandez de Enciso
1546
Detail of Mundus Novus' title page which depicts two monkeys sitting by a tree, framed by plants and text in Latin.

Mundus novus

Amerigo Vespucci
1503
Detail of an engraved map shows mountainous topography and text in Italian.

Descrittione di tutto il Peru

Paulo di Forlani
circa 1564-1572
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 book shows text in Spanish reading "Los aguacates es uno fruta en las Indias muy preciada, y medicinal."

Secretos de chirurgia

Pedro Arias de Benavides
1567

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JCB Fellow Juan Cobo Betancourt views an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library
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Juan Cobo Betancourt, Donald L. Saunders Fellow

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Plan of the fort of the French in Guanabara Bay
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How French Poems Become English

America Meredith (Cherokee), London Calling 1762 (2012)
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Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

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Guadalupe: Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition

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Ethnography and Natural History from the New World to the Philippines

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

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Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana: Courtesy and Piracy in the Poetics of translatio imperii studiique

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