Place

America

Featured Items

Mundus novus

Amerigo Vespucci

1503

Detail of a printed newspaper shows headline "Negro Slavery" and other text in English.

[Album]

Female Society...for the Relief of British Negro Slaves.

1828-1829

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

Americae et Proximar Regionum Orae Descriptio

Giovanni Battista Mazza

1589

Detail of a colored, engraved map shows "Florida," "Virginia," and partial view of frontispiece with text in English.

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St. Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines

Baptista Boazio

1589

Detail of two books shows brown leather binding and spine labels "1" and "2" and the shortened title.

Histoire philosophique et politique, des établissemens & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes.

Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

1770

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 of a hand colored manuscript map shows flags and place names along a coastal region.

[Early representation of Newfoundland, Lower California, the Amazon, and the Ladrones]

António Pereira

circa 1546

Simple, printed map of the island of Sicily, showing Mount Etna, Palermo, Messina, Catania, and other cities, which have been labeled by the author.

Fellow's Talk

Comparative Colonialisms? Palermo and the Americas at the JCB

Wednesday, August 4 at 1:00pm

A map showing the Americas and a constellation over them

Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas

November 2020 - August 2021

colorful map of Caribbean islands with decorative cartouche

"So What'd I Miss?": Lafayette, Jefferson, and Hamilton at the JCB

Summer 2017

Native Americans of present-day Mexico dance around two drummers

Picturing the Past: Indigenous Expressions in Colonial Mexico

Spring 2020

engraved and hand-colored map of northeastern North America including present-day Maine to Virginia

Map of the Month

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

November 26

JCB Fellow Juan Cobo Betancourt views an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library

Meet a JCB Fellow

Juan Cobo Betancourt, Donald L. Saunders Fellow

November 25

detail of a plan showing plantations and dwellings

Rooms of their Own: Dwellings of the Enslaved and the Free in the Early Americas

Spring 2018