Map shows late seventeenth century geography, cities, political borders, and points of interest in North America, South America, and parts of England and France. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:29,000,000].

Map shows areas of Native American habitation, some settlements. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:11,500,00].

Royal Chapel, Interior, 1678-79, compl. After 1708 (ceiling decorations by A. COYPEL)

Libretto for Giuditta. The preface is dated May 10, 1697. Gigli is identified here under the name Amaranto Sciaditico.

1724 score of André Cardinal Destouches' opera Issé. Destouches’s Issé premiered in 1697, just nine years after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The tradition of featuring new operas at the court prior to a public premiere—common during Lully’s later years—was reinstated with this work. When Destouches revived the opera in 1708, he enlarged the original three-act work to five acts. This allowed for expanded divertissements, choruses, and more elaborate arias, which appealed to contemporary public preferences. The volume in the Virtual Rare Book Room is the five-act version.

Opening page of a 17th century Spanish Baroque Carta executoria, providing geological evidence of aristocratic lineage with no trace of peasant, Jewish or Moorish blood. More than simply asserting one's high standing, such documents exempted the holder from civil suits and taxation. Carta executoria were often ostentatiously illuminated (as here), to suggest the wealth and taste of the grantee. Displays large intricate initial "D" (i.e. Don Carlos, King of Spain from 1665 - 1700) in the form of an ornate fountain incorporating fish, snakes, birds, and foliage.

Map shows the extent of Spanish Florida with settlements encompassing majority of southeastern portion of the North American continent. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

overall view from right center

overall view from left

figures at base

the Elector on his horse

detail of figure at base

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Map shows southeastern portion of the North American continent as "Florida," the "Lucaye Ins." off the coast on "Florida" map; on second map, Persia, the Red Sea, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt and Ethiopia. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Total from front center

French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.

Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett.

Map shows settleements on the island of Hispaniola; the coast of New Spain and "Florida" [southeastern north american continent] along the Gulf of Mexico, and the islands in the Caribbean area. Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by isolines. Scale not given.

Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.

Map shows known geography and place names in the Western Hemisphere. Includes "Tavola di clavio nella sfera del sacrobosco." Scale varies.

Satirical Print of English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. The engraving, circa. 1600, shows Hugh Peters with a devil on his back with each foot on a stack of books that correspond to church and state while he holds the ties to bags of money that are labeled with "Revenue", "Plunder", "Thimbles" and "Benefices". Symbols of the monarchy and the church appear on the floor by his feet.

Map shows settlements and missions in Venezuela; settlements and missions along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, Cuba, and Jamaica. Includes illustrations of shipwreck [expedition by Franciscus de Garay to explore the Gulf in 1519]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not shown.

Engraving by Boston printmaker Thomas Clarke showing a man and woman weeping into handkerchiefs in front of the grave of George Washington. Washington's monument includes his face engraved below a cherubim and the epitaph "There is Reft in Heaven" and is set at the foot of a weeping willow. The two figures are being consoled by a figure of Hope, who stands by an anchor and points to heaven.

According to Grove Music, Gigli's 'Amore fra gli impossibili' is an eccentric work where "the pastoral setting is disturbed by mythological references and the addition of the characters Don Chisciotte and Coriandolo, in an ironic and grotesque atmosphere."