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In the 2nd century, Claudius Ptolemy described all that was known in the Roman Empire about the world’s geography in his Geographia. Of the 49 editions of Geographia printed from 1475 to 1730, the JCB has all but two. Thanks to the generous support...
Jaime Marroquín, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University, spent four months as an Associates' Fellow at the JCB researching his current monograph El Peyote y la Virgen: Ethnographic History and Natural Science. This project examines the botanical, medicinal and cultural history of...
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...