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The Library purchased a spectacular Peruvian collection containing the very rare Relacion de la mission apostolica de los Moxos en la provincia del Peru (1696) by Diego de Eguiluz. Once owned by the French bibliophile Henri Ternaux-Compans, this volume is an important part of the...
In October 2017, the Library was pleased to host Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. for a visit and series of programs. A scholar of wisdom literature and culture, he delivered an engaging lecture that explored what wisdom he gleaned...
Barbara Mundy, Professor of Art History at Fordham University and a 2017-2018 long-term David R. Parsons Fellow at the JCB, attests that there is no better place to work on her research than in the JCB’s collection. She shares, “It is, hands down, the best...
This beautiful botanical guide to Brazilian flora by French explorer and botanist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire captivated one of the JCB’s rare book digitization technicians, Donna Dorvick. Now universally accessible through the JCB’s collection on Internet Archive, Plantes Usuelles des Brasiliens joins the ranks of...
Elizabeth González Jiménez, a fifth-year History PhD student at the University of Miami, spent her short-term Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship researching the relationship between gender, law, and justice. She also spent time writing her dissertation project “Unruly Women: Power, Politics, and Punishment in Eighteenth Century New...
Against the backdrop of the Library’s four-year series on the early environmental history of the Americas, the JCB hosted “Fire and Water: Entangled Histories of Empire and Science in the Early Modern Americas” over three days in September 2017. The Library welcomed early career scholars...