Collection Items

  •
    Book/Printed Material
    A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East … A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is a six-volume translation, published in London in 1798, of the ten-volume Histoire…
    • Contributor: Raynal, (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1798

    Resources: View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    Memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus, count de Benyowsky ... consisting of his military operations in … Maurice Benyowsky (1741 or 1746-1786) was born near Trnava in present-day Slovakia, at the time part of Hungary and the Austrian Empire. After service in the Austrian Army, he joined a Polish…
    • Contributor: Benyowsky, Maurice Auguste - Nicholson, William - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1790

    Resources: View All Pages | PDF View All Pages | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se … The astronomer Antonio León y Gama is sometimes considered the first Mexican archaeologist. His description of the discovery of the "two stones" -- the Coatlicue and Sun Stone (a massive sacrificial stone…
    • Contributor: León Y Gama, Antonio De - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1792

    Resource: View All Pages | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    Défénse des colons de Saint-Domingue, ou, Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, …
    Examen des droits de l'homme | Défénse des colons de Saint-Domingue | Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, en ce qu'elle a particulièrement de relatif aux colonies     The French Revolution of 1789 had enormous repercussions in France's Caribbean colonies. In August 1791, slaves in the colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events…
    • Contributor: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Bordes, J. Marie De
    • Date: 1796

    Resource: View All Pages | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    An historical survey of the French colony in the island of St. Domingo : comprehending a … In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events that ultimately led to the founding of Haiti in 1804. In…
    • Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Stockdale, John - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Edwards, Bryan
    • Date: 1797

    Resource: View All Pages | PDF

  • Map
    [Atlas von Liefland, oder von den beyden Gouvernementern u. Herzogthümern Lief- und Ehstland, und der Provinz …
    Atlas de la Livonie ou des deux Gouvernemens et Duchés de Livonie et d'Esthonie, avec la Province d'Oesel :     Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Sheet titles and legends in German and French. Geographic features in German. Title from title sheet of Copy 2. Maps engraved by Carl Jäck, F. Guimpel,…
    • Contributor: Guimpel, Friedrich - Jaettnig, Karl - Hartknoch, Johann Friedrich - Mellin, Ludvig August - Franz, F. G. - Krause, Johann Wilhelm - Champion, J. N.
    • Date: 1798-01-01
  • Map
    Kemâliyle nakş olunmuş cümle cihan numûnesi "This 1795 impression of a woodcut based on Oronce Fine's 1534 heart-shaped map of the world is attributed to a cartographer from Tunis named Hajji Ahmad. At first glance, the map's accompanying…
    • Contributor: Hâcı Ahmed - Fine, Oronce
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    The State of New Hampshire. Compiled chiefly from actual surveys "This map of New Hampshire was completed in 1794 by Samuel Lewis (1753 or 1754-1822), a Philadelphia draftsman and engraver, for inclusion in General Atlas for Carey's Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved,…
    • Contributor: Smither, James - Lewis, Samuel
    • Date: 1794
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Vermont, from actual survey. Scale ca. 1:670,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault…
    • Contributor: Doolittle, Amos
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    The State of New Jersey, compiled from the most authentic information. Scale ca. 1:600,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. Shows towns, county boundaries, and the "Division line of East and West Jersey." "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Available…
    • Contributor: Carey, Mathew - Barker, W. (William) - Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    The State of Maryland from the best authorities. Scale ca. 1:770,000. LC copy annotated in black ink. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Inset: Continuation of the Potowmac River,…
    • Contributor: Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew - Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Georgia, from the latest authorities. Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography." Shows the present states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Available also through the…
    • Contributor: Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    A map of Kentucky from actual survey Scale ca. 1:700,000. LC copy imperfect: Margin deteriorated. Prime meridian: London and Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. Includes descriptive notes. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1969 ed.) 641 Available also through the…
    • Contributor: Carey, Mathew - Barker, Elihu
    • Date: 1793-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    A general chart of the West Indies. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith
    • Date: 1796-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Plano ichnographico de la ciudad de Mexico que demuestra el reglamento general de sus calles asi … Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 594 Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Aguila, Manuel Ignacio De Jesus Del
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Plan du canton de Plimouth et partie des Baradéres. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the bottom. Shows eastern limits as of 1781 and 1790 and names of owners of real property tracts. Available also…
    • Contributor: Frignet
    • Date: 1790-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Carta esférica de la Ysla de la Granada Depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Primera División. Prime meridians: Cádiz and Port of Spain. Watermarks: D. & C. Blauw; IV; and, the letters DCB in a shield with a…
    • Date: 1793-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Plan topografico del Valle de Centa Shows region of Orán. Relief shown pictorially. At head of title: Dedycado al Rey Nuestro Señor Don Carlos IIII. "Este valle situado ... parte de la Prova. de Salta ... corresponde a…
    • Contributor: García De Leon Y Pizarro, Ramón
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Jeu géographique de la République Française : présenté à la Convention Nationale Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Consists of maps of the departments of France in a spiral arrangement designed as a game. Includes text of game rules and…
    • Contributor: Mauborgne, J. N. - Basset (Firm)
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Cercle d'Autriche. From: Atlas général, civil, ecclésiastique et militaire, 1792. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Brion De La Tour, Louis
    • Date: 1792-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Modern Asia Relief shown pictorially. "Pubd. as the Act directs August 13th, 1796 by J. Wilks." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Neele, Samuel John - Wilkes, John
    • Date: 1796-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et del la Guinée
    Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie et del la Guinée     Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 626888.
    • Contributor: Elwe, Jan Barend - L'isle, Guillaume De
    • Date: 1792-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Carte générale de l'Océan Atlantique ou Occidental, Scale ca. 1:12,000,000. Depths shown by soundings. Mercator projection. Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 20." LC copy annotated in red to plot voyage from Brest to "F. Dauphin" in Haiti. Available also through…
    • Contributor: France. Dépôt Des Cartes Et Plans De La Marine
    • Date: 1792-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Hādhā kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā
    هاذا كتاب عجائب الدنيا و ما فيها / | Partie de Merveìlle du monde, Adjaib-i makhlukhat | ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā     The text is a section of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī. This text contains sections extracted from the second part of the well-known and highly popular work of cosmography known…
    • Contributor: Ibn Muḥammad, ʻalī - Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1797
    • Resource: PDF - 136

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Hedàya or Guide; a commentary of the Mussulman laws. Includes index. Translated from Arabic.
    • Contributor: Marghīnānī, ʻalī Ibn Abī Bakr - Hamilton, Charles
    • Date: 1791-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Europe, a prophecy The English poet, illustrator, and engraver William Blake (1757-1827) first published Europe, A Prophecy in 1794, one year after the appearance of his America, A Prophecy. In both books, Blake attempted to…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaisford, Thomas - Bedford, Francis - Blake, William - Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward)
    • Date: 1794

    Resource: View All Pages | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    En fu tang ke yi : er juan
    恩福堂課藝 : 二卷     The compiler of this manuscript, in two volumes, was Yinghe (1771-1839), a Manchu official and writer, who achieved his jin shi (doctoral degree) in 1793. He entered the Hanlin Academy and became…
    • Contributor: Yinghe - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1792
  • Book/Printed Material
    Nü ke bai wen : er juan. Chan bao za lu : yi juan
    女科百問 : 二卷. 產寶雜錄 : 一卷 /     Presented here is a rare copy of Nü ke bai wen (100 questions on gynecology and obstetrics). The original inscription reads: "Qi Zhongfu, student of Hanlin Medical Institute, serving the medical officers…
    • Contributor: Wang. Guan - Xu, GU - Min, Qiji - Ju Jin Tang - Qi, Zhongfu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1795
  • Map
    General'nai︠a︡ karta Rossiĭskoĭ Imperii na sorok odnu gubernii︠u︡ razdelennoĭ.
    Генеральная карта Российской Империи на сорок одну губернию разделенной.     Obshchai︠a︡ karta Rossii iz izdanii︠a︡: Rossiĭskiĭ atlas iz soroka trekh kart sostoi︠a︡shchiĭ i na sorok odnu gubernii︠u︡ Imperii︠u︡ razdeli︠a︡i︠u︡shchiĭ. SPb.: Geograficheskiĭ departament, 1800. Pokazany: administrativnye granit︠s︡y, granit︠s︡y rasselenii︠a︡ narodnosteĭ i nazvanii︠a︡ narodnosteĭ…
    • Contributor: Kharitonov, G. G. - Wilbrecht, Alexander
    • Date: 1796-01-01
  • Map
    Chertëzh, predstavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchiĭ tu chast' ozera Baĭkal, gde prokhodi︠a︡tputi sudov so svint︠s︡ommezhdu ust'i︠a︡mi rek Selengi i Angary.
    Чертёж, представляющий ту часть озера Байкал, где проходятпути судов со свинцоммежду устьями рек Селенги и Ангары.     The map shown here, centered on the southern portion of Lake Baikal, highlights the route of ships that carried shipments of lead between two major rivers on opposite sides of the lake,…
    • Contributor: Kopylov - Frolov, K.
    • Date: 1799-01-01
  • Map
    Nachalo Vladenii︠a︡ zemli 1793-go goda mai︠a︡ 30 dni︠a︡.
    Начало Владения земли 1793-го года мая 30 дня.     Manuscript map with 3 pages of explanatory text. On the title page is the image of a crown, below which are the initials of the owner of the land. Plan dach gospodina…
    • Date: 1793-01-01

    Resource: View All Images | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    Rossiĭskogo kupt︠s︡a Grigor'i︠a︡ Shelekhova stranstvovanie s 1783 po 1787 god iz Okhotska po Vostochnomu okeanu k …
    Российского купца Григорья Шелехова странствование с 1783 по 1787 год из Охотска по Восточному океану к Американским берегам, и возвращение его в Россию, с обстоятельным уведомлением об открытии новообретенных им островов Китака и Афганака, до коих не достигал и славный аглинский мореходец капитан Кук.     Other forms of name: Schelechof, Grigori; Shelekhov. Avtor znamenityĭ russkiĭ puteshestvennik, odin iz osnovateleĭ pervykh poseleniĭ t. n. "Russkoĭ Ameriki" i Rossiĭsko-Amerikanskoĭ kompanii. Opisany takzhe Irkutsk Kurily, Kamchatka i dr. Original text…
    • Contributor: Shelikhov, G. I. (Grigoriĭ Ivanovich)
    • Date: 1793-01-01

    Resource: View All Pages | PDF

  • Book/Printed Material
    Oryun haengsilto
    五倫行實圖 | Title in Chinese reading: Wu lun xing shi tu     By order of King Jeongjo, the 21st king of the Joseon Dynasty (reigned 1724--76), Oryun haengsildo (Illustrated stories exemplifying the five Confucian virtues) was made by binding together two books of ethics…
    • Contributor: Lee, Byeongmo
    • Date: 1797
    • Resource: PDF - 163

  • Book/Printed Material
    Nan he Huang Yun hu he xu xie ji yi tu shui
    南河黃運湖河蓄洩機宜圖說     This work was originally in the Qing imperial collection. The painting of the work was executed in an exquisite manner. A title at head of the work reads: Huang Yun hu he…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Tian wen bei kao
    天文備考     This handwritten copy of Tian wen bei kao (Guide to astronomy) was made in 1790 by Pingbo, whose seals are on the cover of the first of the two juan. No other…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Yuan jing shuo
    遠鏡說     The author of the work was Tang Ruowang (Chinese name of Johann Adam Schall von Bell, 1592--1666), the German Jesuit missionary, who, together with Jin Nige (Nicolas Trigault, 1577--1628), arrived in China…
    • Contributor: Schall Von Bell, Johann Adam - Wu, Shenglan
    • Date: 1796
  • Book/Printed Material
    Ying huan zhi lue
    瀛環志略     Ying huan zhi lue (Brief records of the world) by Xu Jiyu and Hai guo tu zhi (Illustrated introduction to countries over the seas) by Wei Yuan are the first two masterpieces…
    • Contributor: Xu, Jiyu
    • Date: 1794
    • Resource: PDF - 49

  • Book/Printed Material
    Hong lou meng yi bai er shi hui
    紅樓夢一百二十回     Xin jian quan bu xiu xiang Hong lou meng (Newly printed complete illustrated edition of the Dream of the red chamber) is also known as the Cheng-A edition. It is the first…
    • Contributor: Zhang, Ruzhi - Cao, Xueqin
    • Date: 1791
    • Resource: PDF - 162

  • Book/Printed Material
    Pictures of Imported Birds. Raikin zui (Pictures of imported birds, also seen as Pictures of birds imported from abroad) is a color-printed picture book that depicts birds that were shipped to Japan from overseas during the…
    • Contributor: Kitao, Masayoshi
    • Date: 1790-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 19

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Aeneid. This book is the first printed work of the new Ukrainian literature written in the popular language. It introduced to the world the Ukrainian people with their history, language, traditions, faith, and…
    • Contributor: Virgil, 70 Bce-19 Bce - Kotli︠a︡revsʹkyĭ, Ivan Petrovych
    • Date: 1798-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 183