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This exhibition brings to life the extraordinary work undertaken by a small team of American women volunteers who left comfortable lives in the United States to devote themselves to relief work in France during and after World War I.

Americae nona & postrema pars. : Qua de ratione elementorum: De novi orbis natura: de huius incolarum superstitiosis cultibus: deq[ue] forma politicae ac Republ. ipsorum copiosè pertractatur: catalogo regum Mexicanorum omnium, à primo usq[ue] ad vltimum Motec̦umam II. addito: cui etiam ritus eorum coronationis, ac sepulturae annectitur, cum enumeratione bellorum, quae mutuò Indi gesserunt. His accessit designatio illius navigationis, quam 5. naues Hollandicae anno 1598. per Fretum Magellanum in Moluccanas insulas tentarunt: quomodo nimirum oborta tempestate capitaneus Sebalt de Weert à caeteris nauibus dispulsus, postquam plurimis mensibus in freto infinitis aerumnis miserè iactatus fuisset, tandem infectare post biennium An[no] 1600. domum reuersus sit. Addita est tertio nauigatio recens, quam 4. nauium praefectus Olevier à Noort proximè suscepit: qui Freto Magellanico classe transmisso, triennij spatio vniuersum terrae orbem seu globum mira navigationis forte obiuit: annexis illis, quae in itinere isto singularia ac memorabiliora notata sunt. / Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & insuper elegantissimis figuris aeneis coornata editaq[ue] sumptibus Theodori de Bry P.M. vidua & binorum filiorum.

Francof[urt] : Apud Matth. Beckerum., 1602.

PML 3796

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Collections Spotlight, Spring 2024

January 9 through May 12, 2024

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

PIERRE MATISSE AND HIS ARTISTS OPENS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY ON FEBRUARY 14

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Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Examining the role of Pierre Matisse in promoting the work of twentieth-century artists in North America, the Morgan Library presents Pierre Matisse and His Artists from February 14 through May 19, 2002. This is the Morgan's first exhibition devoted exclusively to twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

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