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The JCB holds a great many works on this colonial history of Florida. The Siege of Pensacola, then the capitol of British West Florida, was fought from March to May 1781. Bernardo de Gálvez, who was then the governor of Spanish Louisiana, used forces from...
This vibrantly-colored view of Cartagena’s harbor is one of four town plans created by the Italian artist Baptista Boazio to memorialize the raids on these towns carried out by Francis Drake during his 1585-86 voyage to the West Indies - the other plans, also in...
To launch the JCB’s new ‘Map of the Month’ feature, we have chosen one of the most dramatic and decorative maps of New England and the Atlantic seaboard ever issued. Researcher-in-Residence Chet Van Duzer has been studying this map for his current research project on...
Juan Cobo Betancourt, Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara, is spending his nine-month Donald L. Saunders Fellowship at the JCB researching and writing The coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada...
Adam Lonicer (1528-1586). Kraüter-Buch, und künstliche Conterfeyungen der Baümen, Stauden, Hecken, Kraütern, Geträyde, Gewürtzen &c. Ulm, Germany: 1703.
Comprising over 750 pages, this extensive overview of natural history was first printed in Latin under the title “Naturalis historiae opus novum” in Frankfurt in 1551 (not held...
Seventy-five years ago, a small group of benefactors and bibliophiles in Rhode Island came together at a dark time in the nation’s – and the world’s – history. Five months before D-Day, in January 1944, men and women in Providence decided to focus their attention on...