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![[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1590/01/01/black-slaves-working-in-sugar-mill-hispaniola-part-5-plate-2-640.jpg "[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]")
![Marie de Medicis entrant dans Amsterdam:Medicea hospes. French. [from old catalog]Amsterdam, I. & C. Blaev, 1638.97 p. plates (part fold.) port. 41 cm.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1638/01/01/marie-de-medicis-entrant-dans-amsterdammedicea-hospes-french-from-old-catalogamsterdam-640.jpg "Marie de Medicis entrant dans Amsterdam:Medicea hospes. French. [from old catalog]Amsterdam, I. & C. Blaev, 1638.97 p. plates (part fold.) port. 41 cm.")
![[Map of a part of the island of Cuba and of the Bahamas].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1650/01/01/map-of-a-part-of-the-island-of-cuba-and-of-the-bahamas-640.jpg "[Map of a part of the island of Cuba and of the Bahamas].")
![[Santorio Santorio seated in weighing chair in front of table, part of his quantitative approach to medicine, and title page of De statica medicina aphorismorum]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1703/01/01/santorio-santorio-seated-in-weighing-chair-in-front-of-table-part-of-his-quantitative-640.jpg "[Santorio Santorio seated in weighing chair in front of table, part of his quantitative approach to medicine, and title page of De statica medicina aphorismorum]")
![This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty … by and between [blank] on the one part … Directors of the Manufactory Company of Boston … [Boston? 1740] [Positive Photostat].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1740/01/01/this-indenture-made-the-ninth-day-of-september-anno-domini-one-thousand-seven-640.jpg "This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty … by and between [blank] on the one part … Directors of the Manufactory Company of Boston … [Boston? 1740] [Positive Photostat].")
![[Property survey of tracts and land grants in part of Maryland near Tiber Creek, now central Washington D.C.].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1760/01/01/property-survey-of-tracts-and-land-grants-in-part-of-maryland-near-tiber-creek-640.jpg "[Property survey of tracts and land grants in part of Maryland near Tiber Creek, now central Washington D.C.].")
![Sketch of St. Jo[hn's] Harbour, and part of the river.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1760/01/01/sketch-of-st-johns-harbour-and-part-of-the-river-640.jpg "Sketch of St. Jo[hn's] Harbour, and part of the river.")
![[Property survey of that part of Prince Georges County, Maryland, later to become central Washington D.C.].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1760/01/01/property-survey-of-that-part-of-prince-georges-county-maryland-later-to-become-640.jpg "[Property survey of that part of Prince Georges County, Maryland, later to become central Washington D.C.].")
![Plan of Governor's, Kennedy's, and Brown's Islan[ds] and Red Hook together with part of the Bay and soundings, shewing the position they bear to each other and to New York, September 18th. 1766. By order of His Excellency Major General Gage, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1766/01/01/plan-of-governors-kennedys-and-browns-islands-and-red-hook-together-with-part-640.jpg "Plan of Governor's, Kennedy's, and Brown's Islan[ds] and Red Hook together with part of the Bay and soundings, shewing the position they bear to each other and to New York, September 18th. 1766. By order of His Excellency Major General Gage, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America.")
![Plan of Governor's, Kennedy's, and Brown's Islands, with Paulus and Red Hook together with part of the bay and soundings shewing the position they bear to each ether [sic] and to New York.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1766/01/01/plan-of-governors-kennedys-and-browns-islands-with-paulus-and-red-hook-together-640.jpg "Plan of Governor's, Kennedy's, and Brown's Islands, with Paulus and Red Hook together with part of the bay and soundings shewing the position they bear to each ether [sic] and to New York.")
![Hartford, August 21, 1777 The following is a narrative of part of the transactions at and near Fort Stanwix, since the investiture of that place by the enemy, given in manuscript by Lieutenant-Colonel Willet, of that garrison. [Hartford 1777].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1777/01/01/hartford-august-21-1777-the-following-is-a-narrative-of-part-of-the-transactions-640.jpg "Hartford, August 21, 1777 The following is a narrative of part of the transactions at and near Fort Stanwix, since the investiture of that place by the enemy, given in manuscript by Lieutenant-Colonel Willet, of that garrison. [Hartford 1777].")
![A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island divided into counties and townships, the w[h]ole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations. After the original by M. Le Rouge.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1777/01/01/a-map-of-the-most-inhabited-part-of-new-england-containing-the-provinces-of-1-640.jpg "A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island divided into counties and townships, the w[h]ole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations. After the original by M. Le Rouge.")
![A map of that part of Pensylvania now the principle [sic] seat of war in America, wherein may be seen the situation of Philadelphia, Red Bank, Mud Island, & Germantown.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1777/01/01/a-map-of-that-part-of-pensylvania-now-the-principle-sic-seat-of-war-in-america-640.jpg "A map of that part of Pensylvania now the principle [sic] seat of war in America, wherein may be seen the situation of Philadelphia, Red Bank, Mud Island, & Germantown.")
