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Detail of a printed book shows engraved title page depicting women, ships, and animals. Text in Dutch.

Engelsch edelmans, zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen

Eduward Meltons
1681
Detail of title page shows red and black printed text reading "Oronoko, traduit de l'anglois, de Madame Behn."

Oronoko

Aphra Behn
1745
Detail of a printed book shows a full-page map and text at the of the page reading "America."

Historia Mundi: or Mercator’s Atlas...

Gerhard Mercator
1635
Detail of gold JCB stamp on black binding.

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Edward Wright
1598
Detail of a printed book shows a colored illustrated dragons on a circular diagram with text in Latin.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Peter Apian
1540
Detail of a hand colored, woodcut map shows Africa. Some details shown include labels in Latin and mountains.

Orbis Typus Vniversalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem

1513
Detail from a colored manuscript map shows the world labeled with text in Latin.

De geometriae principiis ad sphaerae astronomicae noticiam neces sariis. caput primum…

Glareanus
1513
Detail from a printed book shows red and black text in Latin, geometrical sketches in the margins, and manuscript notations in the margins and underlining.

Ymago mundi

Pierre d'Ailly
circa 1483

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image of terrestrial sphere including Africa, Asia, and the Americas

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view of Constantinople, with text

Islamic Encounters: America, Europe, and the Middle East before 1835

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a view of Cape Espiritú Santo on Samal

The Spanish American Revolutions: Setting the Stage

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Atlantic Materia Medica

Winter - Spring 2007
hand-colored image depicting a scene in Asia

America and the China Trades, 1750-1850

Fall 2010
view of college edifice

Off to College: Higher Education in the Americas, 1551-1825

Spring - Fall 2014
sixteenth-century map of the world

Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection

Fall 2017

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