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Montezuma's aviary. Detail from the map of Tenochtitlán printed with Hernán Cortés's second letter from the New World, published in 1524.

En tierra firme ay tan grandes arboles. From Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, De la natural hystoria de las Indias, Toleo, 1526.

Christoforus Colon Oceane classis Prefectus. Christopher Columbus signs himself Admiral of the Ocean Fleet in a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, Rome, 1493.

Title page for Nicolás Monrades's Joyfullnewes Out of the New-found Worlde, London, 1596.

Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum Plantarum Historia. Title page that sums the colonial enterprise. 1697.

Georg Marcgrave and Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, title page. Amsterdam, 1648.
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