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1600WRCAM34111Madrid 1600. 4pp. Folio. Later plain wrappers. Minute dust soiling. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. Four contracts between the sundry kings of Spain and certain conquistadors. "The agreements are with Rodrigo de Bastidas of Santo Domingo for the colonization of the Province and Port of Santa Marta in 1524 with Don Gonzalo Ximinez de Quesada in 1569 for the discovery of the New Kingdom of Granada with Captain Don Diego Fernandez de Cerpa in 1568 for the discovery and colonisation of the province of La Guayana Caura and New Andaluzia and with Panfilo de Narvaez in 1526 for the discovery of Florida" - BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. The terms of the agreements generally discuss rights granted by the Crown to the relevant explorer and stipulate what the explorer is required to provide the Crown in return. Gold and other precious metals top the lists. When originally catalogued by Maggs the official signature at the end of the last agreement was attributed to Baltasar Lopez de Castro; but on the original cataloguing present with the text a later hand has suggested Antonio Fernandez de Castro. <br> <br> Good evidence of the terms under which the conquistadors operated in the New World including Florida. Extremely rare. Not on OCLC nor in Palau or Servies. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA I:109 this copy. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA VI:177 this copy. hardcover books
1520WRCAM17720Augsburg 1520. 4pp. Small quarto. Later plain paper boards. Marginal tears and old fold marks with slight discoloration else very good. "After the death of Ferdinand II Charles V succeeded to the Kingdom of Spain. In 1517 he proceeded to Spain which he left in 1520. At his departure he was very unpopular; he made this speech when he left and said 'That he did not see the happy faces with which he had been received.' He also mentions America in the following words: 'He might have been satisfied with the Spanish Empire the Balearic Islands and Sardinia the Kingdom of Sicily Italy and a large part of Germany and Gaul AND THAT OTHER GOLD-BEARING WORLD'" - Maggs. <br> <br> EUROPEAN AMERICANA locates only two copies at The New York Public Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale. There is also a Rome edition of which a copy is located at Harvard. The present copy appears to be the only one offered for sale in this century. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 520/17. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA I:33 this copy. PALAU 44419. ROTHSCHILD 3137. hardcover books
