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Spanish Florida
La Florida Map
Abraham Ortelius. “La Florida/Guastecan from Peruuiae avriferæ regionis typus. . . . ” Antwerp: Christophorum Plantinum, 1584. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (110.01.00)
The Spanish Concept of Florida
Wytfliet, Cornelis van. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum . . . (Decsriptions of Ptolemy Increased . . . ). Lovanii Tijpis Gerardi: Riuij, 1598. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (110.02.02)
The First Description of Florida Indians
René Goulaine de Laudonnière (c. 1529–1574). L'histoire notable de la Floride (A Noteworthy History of Florida). Paris: Guillaume Auuray, 1586. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (108.01.02)
Spaniards Enslaved by Indians
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (ca. 1490–ca. 1557). Relación y comentarios del Governador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Account and commentaries of Govenor Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca). [Valladolid: Francisco Fernández de Cordova, 1555]. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (107.01.01)
Bilingual Catechism in Spanish and Timucuan
Francisco de Pareja (d. 1628). Catecismo en Lengua Timuquana y Castellana (Catechism in the Timucuan and Spanish languages). Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1627. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (104.00.03)
Founder of St. Augustine
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) to Don Cristóbal de Eraso, Manuscript sailing orders, July 21, 1572. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (111.00.00)
Map of St. Augustine and Vicinity
[Map of the town, fort, and entrance to the harbor of St. Augustine and vicinity, Florida, 1595]. Pen-and-ink tracing. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (167.00.00)
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English Florida
Early Illustrations of Florida
Theodor de Bry. Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae (Brief narrative concerning Florida of America). Francfurt: Ioan[n]is Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry, venales reperiu[n]tur in officina S. Feirabe[n]dii, 1591. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109.01.01)
Ill-fated Roanoke Colony
Theodor de Bry (1528–1598). Admiranda narratio, fida tamen: de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae.
Frankfurt: Ioannis Wecheli, 1590. Latin translation by Charles de L’Écluse of Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (113.00.00)
The De Soto Expedition
Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616). Florida del Inca. Historia adelantado Hernando de Soto, governador y capitan general de la reyno de la Florida . . . [Advanced history of Hernando de Soto, governor and captain general of Florida . . . ]. Lisbon: P. Crasbeeck, 1605. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (106.02.01)
English Military Report about St. Augustine
English military report on St. Augustine, with plans and views of St. Augustine Castle, the Spanish watchtower on Anastasia Island, and Matance’s fort, 1743. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (128.00.03)
The Spanish Seizure of Pensacola, Florida
Bernardo de Galvez. Diario de las operaciones de la expedicion contra la Plaza de Panzacola. [Havana 1781]. Dated and signed Bernardo de Galvez, Panzacola 12 de mayo de 1781. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (132.00.03)
Expedition Against St. Augustine
James Killpatrick. An impartial account of the late expedition against St. Augustine under General Oglethorpe. . . . London: J. Huggonson, 1742. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (126.01.01)
Spanish Attack on Georgia Colony
The report of the committee . . . appointed to enquire into the causes of the dissappointment [sic] of success, in the late expedition against St. Augustine, under the command of General Oglethorpe. Charlestown, South Carolina: Peter Timothy, 1742. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (127.00.03)
Atlas of Florida and the Caribbean
Thomas Jefferys (d. 1771). The West India Atlas: or a Compendious Description of the West Indies: Illustrated with Forty Correct Charts and Maps Taken from Actual Surveys. Together with an Historical Account of the Several Countries and Islands which Compose that Part of the World. London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1780. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (129.00.00)
British Colonial Florida
Letter from George Johnstone (1730–1787), Governor of West Florida, to Hutchinson Muso, July 19, 1766. Holograph manuscript. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (168.00.01)
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The United States: An Emerging Empire
Horatio Nelson
Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758–1805). “An account of the proceedings of Captain Nelson of His Majesty’s ship Boreas, relative to the illegal trade carried on between the Americans and the British West India Islands.” ca. 1787. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (133.00.03)
French Possessions
Thomas Jefferys (d. 1771). The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America. London: Thomas Jefferys, 1760. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (130.00.02)
Jefferson on Independence for South America
Thomas Jefferson letter to the Marquis de Lafayette. Monticello, Virginia, November 30, 1813. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00)
George Washington Diary
George Washington, 1732-1799. Diary written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack, 1762. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (135.01.03)
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