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 a printed atlas shows a full-page map.

Neptune Americo-Septentrional contenant les côtes, les et bancs, les baies, ports, et mouillages,...

Buache de la Neuville
1780
Detail of a printed book shows a decorative head piece on the title page written in Spanish.

Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadaes en las riveras del Rio Orinoco

Joseph Gumilla
1791
Two books bound in vellum with manuscript writing on them are pictured on top of each other.

L'Americana Ramminga

Pietro Chiari
1764
Detail of a printed book shows a full-page colored illustration of a plant with insects on it. On the opposite page, text in Latin is visible.

Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium

Maria Sibylla Merian
1719
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 map shows naval warfare, labels over "York River" and "York Town," and red and yellow details.

To his Excellency Gen Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed…

Sebastian Blauman
1782
Detail of a printed book shows text in French that indicate foods such as "Pain Frais" and "Biscuit" with corresponding amounts in ounces.

Composition de la ration des gens de mer

French Admiralty
1785

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printed list and descriptions of commodities
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New acquisition illuminates the inner workings of the British Empire

April 12, 2018
group of people standing around a table looking down at several books

Researching the Slave Trade in the JCB Collections

March 8, 2018
photograph of Jaime Marroquin, assistant professor of Spanish at western Oregon university
Our Fellows

Jaime Marroquín, Associates Fellow

January 16, 2018
Our Fellows

Elizabeth González Jiménez, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow

November 1, 2017
image from the cover of collecting the world: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British musuem by James delbourgo former fellow at the JCB
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Fresh Ink: Collecting the World by James Delbourgo

October 12, 2017
Jody Benjamin, assistant professor of history at the university of California, riverside and ruth and Lincoln ekstrom fellow at the JCB
Our Fellows

Meet our 1,000th Fellow: Jody Benjamin, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow

August 10, 2017
Our Fellows

Sarah Crabtree, NEH Fellow

April 5, 2017
detailed manuscript plan of the city of Montevideo in present-day Uruguay, including location and names of inhabitants of the town, location of churches, fortifications, dwellings, gardens, and some topographical details
Collections Up Close

Montevideo: A City Between Empires

Fabrício Prado September 1, 2008

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