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Images and Visual Resource Collections

Online guide to image collections for faculty, researchers and students at the University of Toronto.

NEW FRANCE - NEW WORLD

KEY SOURCES FOR PRIMARY MATERIAL

Scientific Collections

Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Engraved title page.
From: Mikrokosmographia, a description of the body of man
By: Helkiah Crooke
Published: W. Jaggard, London, 1615

Scientific Illustrations

Illustrations about the New World, its inhabitants, landscape and vegetation in the 16th and 17th centuries, were claimed to be scientific representations. The following resources offer access to historical collections about scientific illustrations.

Incunabula & Illustrations