Checklist of the Exhibition

All objects are from the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Epistola . . . de Insulis Indie . . . nuper inventis(LetterConcerning the Islands Recently Discovered in the Indian Sea)
Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1493 (1)

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574) to Don Cristobál de Eraso
Manuscript sailing orders, July 21, 1572 (2)

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658)
Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinæ, Libris XVI Distincta (A Natural History of the Americas). Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasaris Moreti, 1635 (4)

Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566) to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Manuscript letter, ca. 1528
Possibly Valladolid, Spain (5)

Priest's handbook
Guatemalan highlands
Bound manuscript, ca. 1544-1570 (6)

Don Andrés, Aztec notary
Techialoyan land records, with text in Nahuatl
Santa Maria Itztacapan, Mexico. Aztec, seventeenth century
Manuscript on amate (fig tree bark) paper (7.2)

Techialoyan land records
San Juan Tolcayuca
Mexico. Aztec, seventeenth century
Manuscript map on amate (fig tree bark) paper (7.1)

Antonio del Río (fl. 1786-1789). Ill. by Ricardo Almendáriz. Colección de Estampas Copiadas de las Figuras . . . de Chiapas, una de las del Reyno de Guatemala en la América Septentrional. [Palenque, Mexico: 1787].
Brown ink drawings on paper (8)

Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay (1828-1915)
" Façade of the Fourth Building of Maitta [Mitla], Province of Ojaca [Oaxaca]," Ruines du Mexique et Types Mexicans, 1859-1860
Photographic album of albumen prints (9)

Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854)
Study for Mayan monument, ca. 1842
Pencil and brown wash drawing on paper (10)

Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
The Creation [Illustration for Popol Vuh], ca. 1931
Watercolor and gouache on paper(11.1)
© Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust

Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
Human Sacrifice Before Tohil [Illustration for Popol Vuh], ca. 1931
Gouache on paper (11.3)
© Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust

Tortuguero Box
Tabasco, Mexico. Maya, Classic Period, A.D. 681
Wood (sapodilla?) and red hematite (12)

Codex-style vase with sixty hieroglyphs
Guatemalan lowlands. Maya, Late Classic Period, A.D. 700-900
Red and black on cream ceramic (13.1)

Mayan ball game [Plaque from Site Q]
Guatemalan lowlands. Maya, Late Classic Period, A.D. 550-950
Limestone (14)

Plaque carved on two sides, with human face and animal headdress and deity in lotus position
Copán region, Honduras. Maya, Middle Classic Period, A.D. 400-700
Green jade (15)

Xipe-Totec priest wearing flayed human skin
Central Mexican Highlands. Aztec, A.D. 1400-1521
Painted volcanic basalt (17)

Duho (Ceremonial wooden stool)
Hispaniola. Taino, A.D. 1000-1500
Carved lignum vitae (20)

Seated male figure
Las Bocas, Mexico. Olmec, 1100-500 B.C.
Cream-slipped ceramic sculpture (21.2)
© Justin Kerr

Large two-tiered house model with fifteen inhabitants
Nayarit, West Mexico. 200 B.C.-A.D. 300
Painted red ceramic (22)

Hernando Cortés (1485-1547)
Dowry agreement for Montezuma's daughter, June 27, 1526. Copied from Spanish manuscript, [Valladolid], ca. 1750
Manuscript (24)

Baptista Boazio (fl. 1588-1606)
View of entire route of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage
Hand-colored engraving, 1589 (25.1)

Baptista Boazio (fl. 1588-1606).
St. Augustine, Florida
Hand-colored engraving, 1589 (25)

Baptista Boazio (fl. 1588-1606).
Santiago, Cape Verde
Hand-colored engraving, 1589 (25.2)

Baptista Boazio (fl. 1588-1606).
Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic]
Hand-colored engraving, 1589 (25.3)

Baptista Boazio (fl. 1588-1606).
Cartagena [Colombia]
Hand-colored engraving, 1589 (25.4)

Unknown artists
" The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma," from the Conquest of Mexico series
Mexico, second half of seventeenth century
Oil on canvas (26.1)

Unknown artists
"The Conquest of Tenochtitlán," from the Conquest of Mexico series
Mexico, second half of seventeenth century
Oil on canvas (26.2)

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (1646-1707?)
De Americaensche Zee-Roovers (The Buccaneers of America)
Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1678 (27)

Francisco Pareja (d. 1628)
Catecismo en lengua Timuquana, y Castellana, en el qual se instruyen y cathequizan los adultos infieles que an de sur Christianos. (Catechism in the Timuquan and Castilian languages. . . .)
Mexico: Juan Ruyz, 1627 (28)

Artist unknown
Plan of Matance's [Mantanzas] Fort, 1743
and
View of St. Augustine Castle, 1743
Ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper (30.1, 30.2)

Artist unknown
Florida cow, 1743
Pencil on paper (30.3)

Bernardo de Galvéz (1746-1786)
Noticiosa, Verica Triumfante, y Victoriosa Relacion Que Declara . . . La Restauracion De La Plaza De Panzacola, La Florida . . . El Dia 8. Mayo De 1781 (An account of the truly triumphant and victorious events of the capture of Pensacola, Florida . . . on May 8, 1781)
Seville, 1781
Pamphlet (31)

Silver fork, spoon, plate, and gold bullion from the 1622 Nuestra Señora de Atocha wreck (32, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3)

George Washington (1732-1799)
The Virginia Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1762
Williamsburg: Joseph Royle, and Co., 1762
Printed almanac with manuscript diary entries (33)

James Monroe (1758-1831) to Lord Henry Holland (1773-1840)
Manuscript letter, November 29, 1811 (34)

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) to Don Francisco Vives
Manuscript letter, May 6, 1820 (35)

René de Laudonnière (fl. 1562-1582)
L'histoire Notable de la Florida (A Noteworthy History of Florida)
Paris: Auvray, 1586 (36)

Gerard William de Brahm (1717-ca. 1799)
The Atlantic Pilot
London: T. Spilsbury, 1772
Bound volume with engraved foldout maps (37)

Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541) and Johann Huttich (1490-1544)
Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum. (A New Region of the World. . . .)
Basel: Johann Hervagius, 1532 (38)
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
" Account of the proceedings of Captain Nelson of His Majesty's Ship Boreas relative to the illegal trade carried on between the Americans & the British West India Islands, March 20, 1785."
Bound manuscript, 1784-1786 (39)

Thomas Jeffreys (1695-1771)
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 (40)

Selection of Mayan flasks
Ceramic, Mexico. Maya, Classic Period, A.D. 600 - 900 (41.1-41.6)

Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1518)
Carta Marina Navigatoria Portugallen Navigationes Atque Tocius Cogniti Orbis Terre Maris. . . . (Carta Marina: a Portuguese Navigational Sea-Chart of the Known Earth and Oceans). Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,1516 (43)

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