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Conquest of Mexico Paintings
“The Capture of Cuauhtémoc”
Second half of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (097.00.00)
Explorations and Encounters
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Conflict and Accommodation
Cruelty Illustrated
Theodor de Bry. Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni. [Frankfurt: 1595.] Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (083.00.02)
The Oztoticpac Lands Map
Oztoticpac Lands Map. Mexico, ca.1540. Manuscript on amatl paper. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (088.00.00)
Techialoyan Land Record
Techialoyan land record. San Juan Tolcayuca, México. Aztec, seventeenth century. Manuscript map on amatl (fig-tree bark paper). Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress (089.00.03)
Natural History of Brazil
Willem Piso. Gulielmi Pisonis medic Amstelaedamensis De Indiae. . . . (Willem Piso, doctor of Amsterdam and of the Indies. . . .). Amsterdam: Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (084.01.02)
Aztec Tribute Lists
“Matrícula de Tributos” (Roll of tributes) in Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana. Historia de Nueva‑Espaÿa (History of New Spain). Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (069.00.03)
Aftermath of the Encounter
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Languages and Religion
Christ Figure Created in the Americas
Fragment of Christ figure. San Rafael Cave, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Taino, sixteenth century. Carved lignum vitae. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (058.00.00)
Photo ©Justin Kerr, Kerr Associates
First Dictionary Printed in the Americas
Alonso de Molina (d. 1585). Vocabulario en lengua castellana y Mexicana (Vocabulary in the Castilian and Mexican languages). Mexico: Antonio de Spinosa, 1571. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (099.00.03)
Explaining Indian Life
Diego Valadés (b. 1533). Rhetorica Christiana. . . . (Christian Rhetoric . . . ). Pervsiae: Petrumiacobum Petrutium, 1579. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (101.00.03)
Vocabulary of the Galibi Language
Pierre Pelleprat (1606–1667). Introduction a la langue des Galibis, sauuages de la terre ferme de l’Amerique (Introduction to the language of the Galibis . . . ). Paris: Cramoisy, 1655. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (100.00.03)
Handbook for Priests
Priest’s handbook, Guatemalan highlands. Bound manuscript, ca. 1544–1570. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (103.00.04)
King Phillip’s Concerns
King Phillip II (1577–1598). Autograph letter to Archbishop Pedro de Contreras, December 2, 1598. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (105.00.00)
The Old Ways
Diego de Landa (1524–1579). Relation des choses de Yucatán . . . par l'abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (Account of things of Yucatan . . . Translated and with an introduction by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg). Paris: Auguste Durand, 1864. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102.00.03)
Aftermath of the Encounter
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Competition for Empire
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Pirates and Privateers
Sailing Directions
Descripcion de las costas yslas y vajos desde Sn. Martin una de las Yslas de Barlovento hasta la Havana (Description of the coasts, islands, and lowlands from St. Martin . . . to Havana), 1777. Manuscript atlas. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (120.00.03)
Map Depicting Treasure Fleets
Emanuel Bowen (1673–1767). A New and Accurate Chart of the West Indies with the Adjacent Coasts of North and South America. Drawn from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved modern maps & Charts. . . . By Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty. [London: ca. 1720]. Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress (119.00.00)
Items from a Spanish Treasure Ship
Silver fork, spoon, plate, and gold bullion from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha wreck, 1622. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (118.00.01–04)
Florida Pirate
The Florida Pirate, or, An account of a cruise on the schooner Esparanza. New York: [William Borradaile], 1823. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (125.01.01)
British Attempt to Suppress Pirates
James II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1633-1701, reigned 1685-1688). By the King, A Proclamation for the More Effectual Reducing and Supressing of Pirates and Privateers in America. London: Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, [1688]. Double-leaf broadside. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (123.01.00)
Buccaneers of America
A. O. [Alexandre Olivier] Exquemelin. De Americaensche Zee-Roovers (The Buccaneers of America). Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, Boeckverkoper, 1678. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (121.00.03)
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