Washington ? The Library of Congress has been given a collection of rare books, art, manuscripts and documents that includes the first map of a North American city — St. Augustine, Fla., in 1585.

The map is one of a group of five by an Italian cartographer, Baptista Boazio, that illustrates the 1585-86 voyage and raids of the first Queen Elizabeth’s Sir Francis Drake.

The collection of more than 4,000 items was given to the library by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Kislak, a real estate broker, was appointed last year to head the State Department’s Cultural Advisory Committee.

He and his wife, Jean, an art historian, want to increase public awareness of the history and art of North American peoples, the library said.

The donation to the library reunites a pair of maps, one of which was the first to name “America.” That map, created in 1507, was purchased last year by the Library of Congress. It was once bound in a 16th century portfolio with a map in the collection that is believed to be the first navigational chart of the world, the Carta Marina, printed in 1516. Both were created by cartographer Martin Waldseemuller.

Among other items in the collection:

l An unpublished five-page letter from Mexico by Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, one of his first pleas for better treatment by Spanish authorities of indigenous people.

l A 1762 farm diary of George Washington, written on the blank pages of a Farmer’s Almanac.

l A print from 1494 of a letter by Christopher Columbus, containing what the library says may be the first illustration of the New World.

“Jay Kislak understands the individual and collective significance of these objects, as well as their research and cultural value, and he successfully amassed a unique collection that would be impossible to assemble today,” said James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, in accepting the gift.

The library plans to put on a display this fall. Part of the collection will later be permanently on exhibit in the library’s main building.

This print from a 1494 letter by Christopher Columbus contains what the Library of Congress says may be the first illustration of the New World. The print is part of a collection of hundreds of documents on early North America given to the library.