Lo cap o dono aL principe vno panno biancho di tella ſotiliſſima vno bonnet rozo aL quante felce de chriſtalino et vno biquier dorato de vetro.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The first room is painted by Giovanni da Udine and Pierino del Vaga , and represents the course of the planets,—Jupiter drawn by eagles, Venus by doves, Diana (the moon) by nymphs, Mars by wolves, Mercury by cocks, Apollo (the sun) by horses, Saturn by dragons.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

que entregue á Alonso de Pastrana, su thesorero, con el visto bueno de Domingo Gutierrez, quien por ausencia de Luis de Alarcon está exerciendo el cargo de contador suyo, la cantidad de 10,000 ducados, ó sea tres quentos y cinquenta mill maravedises, que el Rey, su nieto, le mandó pagar por cedula de 14 de Diciembre de 1601.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Dans ce même temps ayant de la peine à vendre notre thé et voyant beaucoup de difficultés pour le commerce du côté de la Pensilvanie, nous échangeâmes notre thé contre des marchandises des îles, et nous résolûmes de venir ici acheter du poisson et faire la traite de la pelleterie avec les sauvages.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

This library of Charles the Fifth shines in extreme splendour, with its many-coloured silks and velvets, azure and vermeil, green and yellow, and its cloths of silver and of gold, each volume being distinctly described by the colour and the material of its covering.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli