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A Guide to Latin American Special Collections at the GRI

An introduction to the research materials and collections at the Getty Research Institute related to the art and cultural histories of Latin America from the colonial period to the present-day.

Detail of Quoniambec. From André Thevet, Histoire des plus illustres et savants hommes de leurs siècles (Paris, 1670), vol. 8, between pp. 344 and 345. Getty Research Institute, 1362- 587

Miscellaneous Reference Materials

This subsection consists of materials not easily categorized in the other subsections. Subjects include property and administrative law, historical fiction and poems, and dictionaries. Materials are organized in thematic groups: Atlases and Dictionaries, Institutional and Legal Records, and Literature and Literary Studies. 

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Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la géographie ancienne & moderne : représentée dans de nouvelles cartes, où l'on remarque l'établissement des etats & empires du monde, leur durée, leur chûte, & leurs differens gouvernemens [1720-1739]

  • Relevant Contributor: Henri Abraham Chatelain
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: vol. 6, pp. 214–284
  • Illustrations: Flora and fauna, maps 
  • Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books

Christiani Gryphii rectoris olim apud Vratislauienses Magdalenaei Apparatus sive dissertatio isagogica de scriptoribus historiam seculi XVII. illustrantibus. [1710]

  • Bibliography
  • Relevant Contributor: Christian Gryphius
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: ch. XIX

Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum, siue, Occidentis notitia : breui commentario illustrata, et hac secunda editione magna sui parte aucta / Cornelio Wytfliet Louaniensi auctore. [1603]

  • Relevant Contributor: Cornelius Wytfliet
  • Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books

Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América : es á saber, de los reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo reyno de Granada ... / escrito por el Coronel D. Antonio de Alcedo [1786-1789]

  • Relevant Contributor: Antonio de Alcedo
  • Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books
  • English translation published in 1812-1815

Histoire des plus illustres et sçavans hommes de leurs siècles: tant de l'Europe que de l'Asie, Afrique & Amérique: avec leurs portraits en tailles-douces, tirez sur les véritables originaux / par A. Thevet histpropgraphe ; divisé en VIII tomes. [1670]

  • Relevant Contributors: André Thevet
  • Sections Relevant to Latin America: vol. 5, pp. 258–282 (Francisco Pizarro), pp. 310–329 (Hernán Cortés); vol. 7, pp. 138–170 (Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan); vol. 8, pp. 258–280 (Atahualpa and Moctezuma II), pp. 296–304 (Nacolabsou, King of the Promontory of the Cannibals, believed to be near Pernambuco, Brazil), pp. 322–326 (Paracoussi, King of the Platte, believed to be a reference to River Plate region of Argentina), pp. 344–359 (Cunhambebe, spelled Quoniambec, and Saturiwa)

Nouissime hystoria[rum] omniũ repercussiones ... : que supplementum supplementi cronicarũ nuncupantur jncipiendo ab exordio mundi vsq[ue] in annum salutis nostre MCCCCCij / nouiter a Reuerendissimo patre Jacobophilippo Bergomẽse ordinis Heremitarum edite. [1503]

  • Chronology
  • Relevant Contributor: Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis
  • Not digitized

Theatrum mundi et temporis. [1611]

  • Geographic coordinates
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: pp. 172–178

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of Quoniambec. From André Thevet, Histoire des plus illustres et savants hommes de leurs siècles (Paris, 1670), vol. 8, between pp. 344 and 345. Getty Research Institute, 1362- 587