| 1 | Joan Blaeu, Nova et accurata Brasiliae totius tabula, Amsterdam, 1689 | 2 |
| 2 | Jan van der Straet, America, ca. 1580 | 4 |
| 3 | Simon van de Passe, Frontispiece to Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna, 1620 | 23 |
| 4 | Anonymous engraver (after Cornelis Claesz. Dusen), Frontispiece to Joannes de Laet, Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, 2nd ed., 1630 | 30 |
| 5 | Hessel Gerritsz (engraver) after Joannes de Laet, ‘Provincia de Brasil cum Adiacentibus Provinciis’, in Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, Leiden: Elsevier, 1625 | 40 |
| 6 | Detail frontispiece to Joannes de Laet, Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, 2nd ed., 1630 | 46 |
| 7 | Jan Jansz. Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America, ca. 1535 | 68 |
| 8 | Anonymous designer (printer’s device “Non Solus”), Title page to Joannes de Laet, Historie ofte Iaerlijck Verhael van de Verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, Leiden: Bonaventuer & Abraham Elsevier, 1644 | 83 |
| 9 | Anonymous German engraver, Christoff Artiszewsky, General Leútenant in Brasilien, 1639 | 123 |
| 10 | Caspar Barlaeus, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum, 2nd ed., Cleves: Tobias Silberling, 1660—typographic title page | 153 |
| 11 | Joan Blaeu, Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Borealis, una cum Praefectura de Itamaracá, ca. 1647 | 157 |
| 12 | Albert Eckhout, African Woman with Child, 1641 | 196 |
| 13 | Anonymous Dutch engraver, Frontispiece to Willem Piso & Georg Marcgraf, Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Leiden & Amsterdam: Hackius/Elzevier, 1648 | 215 |
| 14 | Jan van Kessel the Elder, Paraíba et Brasil (central panel from The Four Continents: America), 1666 | 229 |
| 15 | Georg Marcgraf, ‘Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)’, p. 231 in Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Leiden & Amsterdam: Hackius/Elzevier, 1648 | 237 |
| 16 | Albert Eckhout, Dance of the Tapuya (Tarairiu Dancers), ca. 1640–1644 | 242 |
| 17 | Willem Piso, ‘Ipecacuanha (Carapichea ipecacuanha)’, p. 101 in Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Leiden & Amsterdam: Frans Hackius and Ludovicus Elzevier, 1648 | 256 |
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