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Mapping the World
Ptolemaic World Map
Hartmann Schedel. Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (141.02.00)
Venetian Sailing Directions
Nicolo Stolfo. Drawings of zodiacs, hands, and divisions of time in Portolano. Venice: 1499. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (145.03.00)
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Cartographic Treasures
1507 World Map
Martin Waldseemüller. Universalis cosmographia secunda Ptholemei traditionem et Americi Vespucci aliorum que lustrations. [Strasbourg?]:1507 [imprint later than 1515]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (142.00.00)
Schöner Sammelband
Compiled by Johann Schöner, comp. (1477–1547). Schöner Sammelband. Nuremburg: ca.1516. J. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (143.00.03)
Carta Marina
Martin Waldseemüller. Carta Marina Navigatoria Portugallen Navigationes Atque Tocius Cogniti Orsis Terre Marisque. [Strasbourg?]: 1516. Facsimile. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (144.00.00)
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Natural History
Flora and Fauna of North and South America
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595–1658). Historiae naturae, maxime peregrinae (Natural history, most especially the foreign). Antwerp: Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1635. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (157.00.03)
New World Creatures
Arnoldus Montanus, 1625?-1683. De nieuwe en onbekende weereld (The new and strange world. . . .). Amsterdam: Jacob, 1671. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (159.00.03)
Eighteenth-Century Naturalist
Catesby, Mark (1683–1749). The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1731-43. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book Division, Library of Congress (160.00.03)
Gould’s Birds of South America
John Gould (1804–1881). A monograph of the Trogonidae, or family of trogons. London: Taylor and Francis, 1875. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (160.01.03)
Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America
Bartram, William (1739–1823). Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida. . . . Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (161.00.03)
Von Humboldt’s Scientific Excursion to South and Central America
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). Vues des Cordillres et Monuments des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique (Views of the Cordilleras and monuments of indigenous peoples of America). Paris: R. Schoell, 1810. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (162.00.03)
Caribbean Plant Specimens
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin (1727–1817). Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum historia. . . . Vienna: 1780. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (163.00.03)
The Insects of Suriname
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717. Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensiam. . . . Amsterdam: G. Valck, 1705. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (164.00.03)
Medicinal Virtues of Tobacco
Nicholas Monarde (ca. 1512–1588). Delle cose che vengono portate dall’Indie Occidentali [Of the things that have been brought from the West Indies]. Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1575. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (165.02.01)
Tlatilco Vessel in Form of a Rabbit
Effigy vessel in the form of a rabbit. Central Mexico. Tlatilco, 1150–550 BC. Ceramic with a cream-colored slip highlighted with black resist design. Jay I Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (166.00.00)
Medicinal Virtues of New World Plants
Nicholas Monarde (ca. 1512–1588). Joyfull Newes Out of the Newe Founde World. . . . London: W. Norton, 1577. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (165.02.01)
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