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Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles (1598-1601)
The descriptions of plants, animals, resources, and people in the West Indies and Mexico, in Samuel de Champlain's journals from his voyages 1598-1601
Indian Nectar: A Discourse Concerning Chocolata
This book is a first-hand account by English Physician Henry Stubbe of the different methods of making chocolate and the uses of chocolate in South America in the 17th century.
An History of the Earth and Animated Nature in Eight Volumes, Volume VII
Natural history of various species
Fruit-Bearing Trees
Within in an account of the people and environement of the island La Espanola, an Illustration showing four trees, labelled mamei, guaiaua, guanauana, and platano
Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse
Copy of a trade card by Hogarth for Mrs Holt's Italian Warehouse used for advertisement; Mercury talking to Florence, who sits with items of trade: a jar of oil, fan, hat, violin etc., men loading other items onto a ship at right, Rome in background;…
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History ... of the Last of Those Islands ; to Which Is Prefix'd an Introduction, Wherein Is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Waters, Diseases, Trade, &c. ... Illustrated with the Figures of the Things Describ'd ... By Hans Sloane ... In Two Volumes. .
This source is a plant catalogue that displays the role of the bell pepper in the lives of the people of Jamaica and Spain.
Bixa Orellana
This is a reproduction of a drawing of Bixa Orellana by Salvador Rizo Blanco for Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), directed by J.C. Mutis. One of the purposes of Mutis's project was…
The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet; Including an Exact and Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Religion, Arts, and Sciences : The Whole Adorn'd with Curious Maps, and Variety of Copper-Plates.
An encyclopedic survey of China, Tibet, and Korea, drawn from the reports of Jesuit missionaries
The Natural & Moral History of the Indies
This book includes "the notable things of the heavens, the elements, metals, plants, animals ; and the rites, ceremonies, laws, government, and wars of the Indians" (p. xvii) in the west Indies.