Period

18th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a printed book shows a full-page illustration on the frontispiece showing a child carrying the world on their shoulders.

Atlas des Enfans, ou nouvelle methode pour apprendre la geographie,...

1784
picture of title page of Mudo lamento

Mudo lamento de la vastissima, y numerosa Gentilidad, que habita las dilatadas margenes del caudaloso Orinoco, su origen, y vertientes, à los piadosos oídos de la Magestad Catholica de las Españas, nuestro señor Don Phelipe Quinto (que Dios guarde).

TAPIA, Matías
1715
Detail of a printed map shows Detroit with labels reading "Grande Saline," "Mosquitto Bay," and so on.

Pilote americain septentrional

Georges-Louis Le Rouge
1778-1789
Detail of a printed book shows a decorated title page depicting an illustration of Sor Juana, angels, indigenous people, and text in Spanish and Latin.

Fama, y obras posthumas del Fenix de Mexico

Juana Inés de la Cruz
1700
Detail of a printed book shows text in Mohawk and English.

A primer for the use of the Mohawk children . . .

Daniel Claus
1786
Detail of an engraved, hand colored print shows portrait of Hendrick, a Mohawk chief.

The brave old Hendrick the great Sachem or Chief of the Mohawk Indians...

1740
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
Detail of a printed book shows text in English reading "Appendix" at the top of the page.

Medical Inquiries and Observations

Benjamin Rush
1789

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Carte du Cours des Fleuves du Sénégal et de Gambie Dédiée et Présentée à Monsieur le Duc de Lauzun…, 1779

July 31
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Picturing the Past: Indigenous Expressions in Colonial Mexico

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

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Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septenrionali…, 1730

November 26
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200 Years of Colombian Independence

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

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Environmental Studies

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