The full exhibition (September 20, 2001 - January 6, 2002) contains more than
100 books, manuscripts, prints, and museum pieces from the Paul Mellon library. A complete
inventory of the exhibit is available here.
 Thomas Hariot (1560-1621)
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia . . ., 1590
Theodore de Bry (1528-1598)
Great and Small Voyages, 1590-1634
James I (1566-1625)
A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604
Thomas Boreman
A Compendious Account of the Whole Art of Breeding . . . the Silk-worm, 1733
John Tennent (ca.1700-ca. 1760)
An Epistle to Dr. Richard Mead . . ., 1742
George Washington (1732-1799)
Letter, 20 March 1754, to Lieutenant-Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia
"A Lover of His Country" [William Smith (1727-1803)]
An Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, 1766
Author Unknown (1781)
Glorious News, Providence, 25 October 1781, Three O'Clock, P.M.
William Russell Birch (1755-1834)
The Country Seats of the United States of North America, 1808[-09]
George Catlin (1796-1872)
Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, 1844
John James Audubon (1785-1851) and Rev. John Bachman (1790-1874)
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1845-48
Sir Henry James Warre (1819-1898)
Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, 1848
Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894)
Slovenly Peter Reformed: Showing how he became a Neat Scholar, 1853
Lefevre James Cranstone (ca. 1820-1867)
"Negro Shanty, Virginia," 1860.
Marriage of Pocahontas & Rolfe puzzle
S. L. Hill (manufacturer), c. 1868
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