Period

18th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a printed text shows a large, leafy tree. Labels printed below.

Museum Museorum

Michael Bernhard Valentini
1704
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
Detail of a printed map shows text in French, latitude and longitude lines, and small mountains.

Le pilote de l'isle de Saint-Domingue et des débouquemens de cette isle…

1788
Detail of a red Morocco binding shows wear near the spine. Partial view of the title on the spine.

Atlas de toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre

Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
circa 1780
Detail from the binding of a manuscript codex shows text in Spanish "3. Soledad."

Spiritual autobiography

María de San José
1703-1710
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
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 book shows a full-page illustration of a man smoking while seated and another man throwing water on him. Text in English on the opposite page.

Little truths better than great fables

William Darton
1794

Related

colored map of Saint-Domingue

The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789-1804

Winter - Spring 2014
political cartoon depicting a funeral procession

Pamphlet Wars: Arguments on Paper from the Age of Revolutions

Fall 2015 - Winter 2016
Black people work at a sugar mill with clouds and a palm tree outside

The Americas on Fire

map
In House

Strike a Map from that List!

April 11, 2019
tara Bynum looking down at a book
Our Fellows

Tara A. Bynum, Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow

February 15, 2019
French 18th century text
In House

"Réponse de M. Duchilleau..."

February 15, 2019
man seated at a table in front of a laptop and green lamp
Our Fellows

Asiel Sepúlveda, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow

October 24, 2018
photograph of Nora Jaffary
Our Fellows

Nora Jaffary, Associates Fellow

April 12, 2018

See Also

Nahuatl

Ephemera