Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles (1598-1601)
Description of travel in West Indies and Mexico
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
Samuel de Champlain, author
Champlain, Samuel. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico. Trans. Alice Wilmere. Ed. Norton Shaw. London: Hakluyt Society, 1859.
1598-1601
Chiara Moslow
Original manuscript: John Carter Brown library at Brown University
French
text
Indian Nectar: A Discourse Concerning Chocolata
Chocolate, South America, recipe, ingredient, Native Americans
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.
Henry Stubbe
Fordham University Library Catalog
Early English Book Online
online copy from Harvard University Library
J.C. for Andrew Crook
published 1662
Published in 1662 so this book is in the public domain
Book
English
Book, observational discourse, medicine
17th century view on chocolate, its ingredients, and uses. 17th century medicinal ideas, first-hand interactions with natives to South America
An History of the Earth and Animated Nature in Eight Volumes, Volume VII
Physical geography
Zoology > 1758-1900.
Natural history of various species
Oliver Goldsmith 1730-1774
Hathi Trust Digital Library
London, Printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, in the Strand, 1791.
1774
Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, Sève, Jacques Eustache de. , West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, Martin, Elias, 1739-1818
Public Domain
8 v. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
English
History
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095531169;view=1up;seq=210
Eighteenth Century
Fruit-Bearing Trees
Trees found in the New World
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
Girolamo Benzoni
Benzoni, Girolamo, and Smyth W. H. History of the New World. London: Printed for Hakluyt Society, 1857. Print.
Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Image originally published in 1565
Reprinted in Smyth's translation in 1857
Chiara Moslow
No restrictions
Image
Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse
trade/industry; allegory/personification; italian; advertising
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; Medici crest at top of frame, cities of Naples, Venice, Genoa and Leghorn represented in corners; illustration to volume I of Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794).
Etching
William Hogarth, an English artist and cartoonist accomplished in portraiture, painting, etching, printing, and artistic satire
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/396784?=&imgNo=0&tabName=object-information
Public Domain, metmuseum.org
before 1772
metmuseum.org
Kim McCarthy
Public Domain
sheet: 9 x 5 9/16 in. (22.8 x 14.2 cm)
English
Etching and engraving, print
59.600.271
Eighteenth Century
A voyage to China and the East Indies by Peter Osbeck. Together with A voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen and an account of the Chinese husbandry, by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg. Tr. from the German, by John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. To which are added, a Faunula and Flora sinensis
China, East Indies, Chinese Husbandry
Accounts from several different European explorers
Pehr Osbeck
HathiTrust Digital Library
London : B. White, 1771.
1723-1805
Johanne Reinhold Forster, Karl Gustav Eckeberg, Olof Torén, Carl von Linné
Public Domain
Print Book
English
Account of Exploration
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. .
Madera, Barbados, Nieves, St. Christopher, Jamaica, Plants
This source is a plant catalogue that displays the role of the bell pepper in the lives of the people of Jamaica and Spain.
Hans Sloane
Hathitrust Digital Library
Printed for the British Museum by the author.
1707
Michael van der Gucht, John Savage
Public domain
Print book
English
Natural history catalogue, travel narrative
Bixa Orellana
Bixa Orellana, the plant used in production of achiote oil
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 to gather botanical data about the new plants being discovered, allowing for identification of these plants and knowledge about the usefulness of any of these plants. In the case of Bixa Orellana, one such use has come to be achiote oil.
Salvador Rizo Blanco
-http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/
-Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis
-Tracing by Ellen Jennings of image of Bixa Orellana found on the website http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/
Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC)
The Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis was produced over the years of 1783-1816
J. C. Mutis
Patrick Jennings
http://www.rjb.csic.es/icones/mutis/paginas/comocitarrecurso.php
The image from The Real Jardin Botanico: Dibujos de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783-1816), dirigida por J.C. Mutis was traced by Ellen Jennings and scanned onto the computer. It is a JPEG file, 2048 pixels wide by 2048 pixels long.
Spanish
Botany
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.
China, Korea, Tibet
An encyclopedic survey of China, Tibet, and Korea, drawn from the reports of Jesuit missionaries
Du Halde, J.-B. 1674-1743.
HathiTrust Digital Library
London, J. Watts, 1739-1741. (Translator)
1739
Brookes, Richard, fl. 1750.
Public Domain. Google-digitized.
Book
English, translated from French
History
The Natural & Moral History of the Indies
Indians of Mexico; Indians of South America; Natural history
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.
Fr. Jose de Acosta - author
Edward Grimston - translator (1604)
Clements R. Markham - editor, added notes & introduction (1880)
London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society
1880 (reprinted from previous 1604 edition)
Brandon Miraz
English
History