Kislak rare book and manuscript collections include more than 1,500 rare books and 400
historic documents, as well as some 450 historic maps and a 2 ,000-volume reference
library. The collections focus on the early exploration and colonization of the Americas,
especially the region surrounding Florida and the Caribbean, during the period from the
16th century through the 18th century. Kislak collections include
many first editions of extremely rare books. Others are the only copies existing in
Florida. Unique original documents reveal information and insights into the
lives of important historic figures.
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Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506)
De Insulis nuper in Mari Indico repertis in Carolus Verardus: Historia Baetica.
Basel: I.B. [Johann Bergman de Olpe], 1494.
85.002.0.1
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Martin Waldseemüller
(b. 147-?-1518)
Cosmographiae Introductio
St. Die: Walter Lud, 29 August 1507.
85.003.0.3
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Hernando Cortés
(1485-1547)
Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de nova maris oceani Hyspania narratio...
Nüremberg: F. Peypus, 1524
87.051.0.1
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Hernando Cortés
(1485-1547)
Power of Attorney, “Tenustitan” (Mexico City)
4 July 1526
87.052.0.1
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Hernando Cortés
(1485-1547)
Manuscript, Dowry for Montezuma’s Daughter
[Original written “Temextitan” (Mexico City)
27 June 1526
copied Valladolid, ca. 1750
90.004.0.1
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Martín Fernandez de Enciso
(d. 1525)
Suma de Geographis Q Trata de Todas las Partidas y Prouincias del Munda: En Especial de las Indias
Seville: Andres de Burgos, 1546
86.023.0.1
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Juan Díaz
Manuscript, Itinerario del Armata del Rey Católico in India verso la Isola de Iucatan del anno M.D.XVIII. al la quale fu Presidents il Capitano Generale Johan de Grisalva: Il quale e Fecto per lo Cappellano Maggiore de dicta Armata, et Mandato a Sua Alteza
Italy, second quarter of the 16th century
92.111.0.1
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Pietro Martire d’Anghiera
(1457-1526)
Opus Epistolarum
Florence: Michael de Eguia, 1530
96.006.0.2
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Richard Eden
(1521?-1576)
The Decades of the New Worlde or West India..
London: William Powell, 1555
89.027.0.1
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Francisco López de Gómara
(1511-1564)
The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne
London: Henry Bynneman, 1578
92.007.0.3
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