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18155578En Palacio" i.e. Madrid 1 March 1815. Folio 29.8 cm 12.75" 4 pp. <br><br>The king aids a widow. On 11 February 1815 the king conceded Doña María Josefa d'Alouise widow of Don Juan Carlos Benavides the power to attempt recovery of 8356 reales and 6 maravides de velón of annual income from her late husband's entailed estate i.e. mayorazgo. He here expands his earlier decree and orders the current holder of the entail to give the said sum annually to her provided she does not remarry or take religious vows. Written in a very clear hand with the paper and wax seal below the king's signature wax desicated and paper loose but present. Two blank leaves at end. Very good condition. unknown books
181737583London: Printed by Thomas Davison Whitefriars for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1817. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary brown polished calf spines rubbed brown binder's ticket on front pastedowns "Bound by Smith 49 Long Acre" in each volume; front joint of vol. I starting fixing to preliminaries else very good. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Inscribed Twice. INSCRIBED on the first blank leaf of volume I "With the author's best regards March 1834 London" and on the title page of both volumes "To my dear Aunt Mrs. Moore E.V. Holland." Lady Holland's Aunt Mrs. Moore of NYC was Clement C. Moore's mother. <br/>The first volume containing the account of Lope de Vega's life and writings was first published in 1806; this is the first two volume edition and the first containing the treatment of Guillen de Castro. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown unknown books
1790657681790. Eighteenth-Century Spanish Regulations Concerning Loans to Government Officials Spain. Loans. Pensions. Monte Pio de Corregidores y Alcaldes Mayores que nombra S.M. Inclusos los del Territorio de las Ordenes Militares. Madrid: En la Imprenta de Don Benio Cano 1790. 467 pp. Folio 11-3/4" x 8-1/4". Contemporary tree sheep gilt fillets to boards gilt fillets and ornaments to spine gilt tooling to board edges marbled endpaper detached ribbon marker laid in. Some minor nicks to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped. Very light toning to text faint dampstaining to a few leaves a few minor worn holes. A handsome copy. $750. Only edition. A collection of legislation establishing a system of low-interest loans for aldermen mayors and the governors of military districts in Spain and New Spain. This legislation has its roots in the "Mounts of Piety" a system of pawnbrokers run as a charity by the Catholic Church in Europe in the Late Middle Ages to offer low-interest loans to the needy. The regulations in the present volume offered low-interest loans from the state treasury secured against amounts intended to fund the borrower's pension. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America Duke University. Palau Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano 177.666. unknown books
1821WRCAM51825Guatemala 1821. 18pp. Small folio. Stitched. Ink stains and dust soiling on final leaf verso. Light foxing and dampstaining. Very good. A Guatemalan imprint of several decrees passed by the Spanish legislative assembly the Còrtes in 1820. The assembly existed for three years from 1820 to 1822 during the so-called Trienio Liberal when a military coup forced Ferdinand VII to institute a more liberal form of government. He eventually defeated those forces with the aid of the French and re-established an absolute monarchy. The decrees included here order pensions to be granted to those families who suffered for their adherence to the Constitution first promulgated in 1812 and offers amnesty to all those who were forced to emigrate from Spain because of their political views among other actions. The longest decree addresses enrollments in the Spanish navy and the provision of men for Spanish warships. The final leaf bears the printed signature of Gavino GaÃÂnza who at this point was the head of the Spanish provincial and military government in Guatemala but who later in 1821 would sign the Act of Independence of Central America and declare the country's independence from Spain. Rare not in Medina or OCLC. unknown books
1769WRCAM48900Madrid 1769. 11pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Minor toning some loss to the last leaf affecting the stamped signature of the King and a couple of other words. Good. A royal decree discussing the finances of the Jesuit order in the Spanish territories after their expulsion from Spain in 1767 stamp- signed by King Charles III and docketed by his secretary. unknown books
1769WRCAM48901Madrid 1769. 7pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Minor worming. Very good. A royal decree attempting to suppress satirical publications of the Jesuit order mentioning "San Ignacio de Loyola" the founder of the Jesuits more than two centuries earlier. Issued after the suppression of the order this is specifically aimed at illicit works printed and circulated in Barcelona. The document is stamp-signed by King Charles III and secretarially docketed. unknown books
162531210Madrid 31 October 1625. Folio 31 cm; 12.125". 4 pp. and 2 blank leaves. <br><br>Diego de Faxardo had been the corregidor of Merida del Campo and he is scheduled to undergo the residencia hearing that will assess his term of office. Here the king gives specific instructions to the residencia judge as to who should be called to testify and who should not.<br>Â Â Â Â This is a certified contemporary copy of the original with the official paper and wax seal now desiccated and detached but present. Very good condition with minimal bleed through. Written in a very clear notarial hand. unknown books
177833498Madrid: Pedro Marin 1778. 4to 28 cm; 11". 2 ff. 19 1 blank 262 pp. <br><br>The seed of the Enlightenment idea of free commerce landed in Spain in the 1770s and blossomed in 1778 just two years after Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations strongly advocating free trade. Here are the laws and regulations that enable and allowed free trade in the Spanish empire. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 68890; Palau 255843; Goldsmiths'-Kress 11717; Medina BHA 4845. Text block loose in a later limp vellum binding. The engraving of the royal arms and the title-page dust-soiled as are the last three leaves. Worming in the lower margins of all leaves. A less than pristine copy and priced accordingly. Pedro Marin hardcover books
1786WRCAM10734London: Printed by T. Harrison and S. Brooke 1786. 15pp. printed in double-column format in parallel English and French. Small quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Near fine. The 1783 treaty between Spain and England had been concluded as part of the general ending of the American War of Independence and left a number of points unresolved. This document settles issues relating to South America Central America and the Caribbean. Specific points include a British pledge to evacuate the land of the "Mosquito" Indians in Belize and other Spanish possessions in return for the right to gather fruits and wood "without even excepting mahogany." OCLC locates five copies. A scarce treaty with significant ramifications for colonial Latin America. DAVENPORT 175. OCLC 12651227. Printed by T. Harrison and S. Brooke hardcover books
1790403582Seville: Imprenta Mayor de la cuidad 1790. 4to 302 x 211 mm. 4pp. Unbound folded sheets. Tears to folds. Red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE SEVILLE PRINTING OF THE 1790 ROYAL ACT PROHIBITING THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS: ". considering the bad consequences that it have and will always come from the overindulgence by the King's people when the bulls run . through the streets day and night; and with the receipt of the news by our King of the recent misfortunes from some of these amusements . desiring to cut these pernicious deaths wounds and other excesses . we instruct our Council to take the appropriate measures to contain such damage." The printed provision concludes with a note from Martin Perez referencing the original document located in the Senior Notary office and accompanied by a signature presumably of Perez. Only one copy of this notice has appeared at auction in at least the last fifty years according to the available databases and Worldcat/OCLC list only two copies. <br/><br/> Imprenta Mayor de la cuidad hardcover books
16108272Aranda 1610 Dated July 8 1610. 12 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches. 1pp. Printed paper woodcut seal. Minor creases where folded. Right upper edge a bit rough small split to one crease repaired with acid-free document repair tape small light stain to portion of first two lines but a fine example. As with all other Spanish royal signatures Philip has signed "Yo el Rey" I the King. With the words "El Rey" at the top this document grants permission to the town of Canical to withhold 20000 Maravedis coin of the time from the sum it owes in taxes in order to settle a municipal debt. Includes 18 lines in brown ink in a miniscule script. Next to the King's signature is a mounted printed paper woodcut seal with the emblem of the College of Notaries of Madrid. Countersigned in a bold dark script Jorge de Tovar. At the bottom are three lines by officials of the town of Canical acknowledging the permission granted. Philip III was King of Spain and King of Portugal from 1598 until his death. He inherited essentially a bankrupt nation with a disastrous economy. His father Philip II had drained Spain's resources with her wealth based on the silver mines of Latin America. Spain's internal economy was weak with little industry and a backward agriculture and large estates worked by peasants ruined by excessive taxation. This document is typical of the economic weakness of Spain with the town of Canical requiring monetary help. An attractive official document with bold signatures. unknown books
173936319London: Printed for T. Cooper. 1739. 63 1 blank pp. Bound in modern vellum. Early leaves dusted minor scattered foxing. Else Very Good. <br/><br/> "In Spanish and English and relates principally to affairs in America" Sabin with particular emphasis on Florida. The book charges that the King of England authorized Captains of the ships 'Pompey Galley' and 'Fortune' to cruise the Florida coast and collect loot from ship-wrecks. With a force of 600 men the English overpowered Spaniards who were guarding their own collection of salvaged loot and "did rob about 400000 pesoes without any other pretense but that of their greediness." <br/> The Madrid printing in Spanish issued earlier in 1739.The document sets forth Spanish grievances dating from the early 1700s relating to conflicts in the New World-- from Newfoundland to Florida and the West Indies. The conflicts came to a head in the War of Jenkins' Ear commenced in October 1739. <br/>Sabin 17026. Servies 334. Bartlett John Carter Brown Library 618. ESTC N27944. Printed for T. Cooper... unknown books
1923313637Madrid: E. Gonzalez y Cia Fototipia 1923. Pochoir title page and back wrapper by Larraya plate of posters in full color ornamental dedication leaf 28 illustrations from photographs 1 folding. 15 leaves with text in Spanish and English. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Cloth spine glazed yellow pictorial boards preserving wrappers. Some minor soiling chips at edges of back wrapper generally fine. Pochoir title page and back wrapper by Larraya plate of posters in full color ornamental dedication leaf 28 illustrations from photographs 1 folding. 15 leaves with text in Spanish and English. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Sport & Wine in Jerez Spain. "The merchant the sportsman the man of business or the man of leisure will always find a welcome in Jerez." Lavishly produced album of the sherry wine and brandy house of Marqués del Mérito in Jerez documenting in equal parts the wine-making activities of the firm and the sporting traditions of the lands around Jerez de la Frontera including pigsticking in the swamps stag and ibex hunting waterfowling and bird shooting with numerous pictures of the bag of princely hunting parties. Uncommon and striking. E. Gonzalez y Cia, Fototipia unknown books
177436365Madrid: En la Imprenta de Pedro Marin 1774. Small 8vo 15 cm; 6". 4 including initial blank ff. 182 pp. <br><br>There were two 1774 editions of this manual for the Spanish cavalry and dragoons: one was a quarto with folding plates the other this pocket unillustrated octavo clearly the more personal portable production and the one more vulnerable to destruction. It begins with general trumpet and drum calls for field camp and battle and proceeds to those specific for certain maneuvers for the dragoons etc. It then moves on to formations and ends with instructions for movements on foot and for the use of carbines.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of NUC WorldCat and CCPBE locate => only two copies of this octavo edition worldwide in the national libraries of Spain and Chile. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Palau but see 255857 for the quarto edition. Contemporary mottled sheep with gilt spine extra and marbled endpapers; spine chipped binding lightly abraded. Front hinge inside open; text block firmly attached to binding. Some very light waterstaining and one short marginal note; a nice clean copy. En la Imprenta de Pedro Marin unknown books
1660WRCAM35380London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1660. Broadside 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. Affixed at corners to a slightly larger sheet. Near fine. Archivally matted protected with mylar sheet. An early diplomatic proclamation by the recently restored British monarch King Charles II and part of his efforts to encourage British colonial and commercial expansion. Though not formally at war hostilities existed between Britain and Spain especially concerning the harassment of commerce at sea and colonies in the Caribbean. Five years earlier the English under Cromwell had seized Jamaica from Spain and in 1656 Spain lent their support to Charles II's restoration to the throne. In this document Charles II proclaims that "all prisoners ships goods merchandize sic or whatsoever else taken upon one another either by any of our subjects or the subjects of our said dear brother since said time of our arrival in England be and shall be upon due proof thereof redelivered and restored." At the same time Charles II was negotiating with the Portuguese against Spanish interests in the New World especially with regard to Jamaica which the British ultimately retained. WING C3287. Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker unknown books
1783WRCAM20585Madrid: En la Imprenta Real 1783. 494pp. in Spanish and French plus a map. Small quarto. Original plain wrappers. Spine bit chipped. A crisp near fine copy. In a half morocco and cloth case. This is the official Spanish printing of the treaty in which England and Spain make peace in the American Revolution. England gives the Floridas back to Spain and Spain returns the Bahamas to England. The navigation of the Belize and Hondo rivers is made common to both nations. They also settle all hostilities concerning the Revolution a necessary component of the final Peace of 1783. England's returning Florida to Spain provided the U.S. with a headache not resolved until the U.S. purchased Florida from Spain in 1819. The engraved map depicts the Hondo and Belize rivers. DAVENPORT 174. SABIN 96558. PALAU 339315. SERVIES 598. En la Imprenta Real hardcover books
181336362colophon: Cadiz: en la Imprenta Tormentaria á cargo de Juan Domingo Villegas 1813. 8vo 21.5 cm; 8.125". 2 281385 15 pp. fold. plts. numbered xxxix lxviii. <br><br>At the base of the title-page of this infantry manual is printed "Reimpreso por disposicion del . . . señor don Carlos Doyle teniente general de los reales exercitos." => That is Lt. Gen. Charles William Doyle 17701842 ordered this work to be printed.<br>Â Â Â Â Doyle was an Irish-born British lieutenant-colonel who in 1808 was ordered to Portugal to help fight Napoleon in the Peninsular Campaign. He very successfully aided the Spanish army in instilling discipline and organizing light infantry and was made a lieutenant general in the Spanish army. In 1811 Britain ordered him home but when he reached Cadiz Sir Henry Wellesley convinced him to command a camp at which a new army was being organized for action in the south of Spain. Again he was highly successful in his military instruction of new troops and as a result was promoted to full colonel in the British army; he remained in Spain till the end of the war in 1814.<br>Â Â Â Â The present work extracted from the larger one of the same title printed at Madrid by the Imprenta Real in 1808 was clearly printed for the instruction of Doyle's southern army.<br>Â Â Â Â At the rear of the volume are => 30 folding plates setting forth various dispositions and movements of infantry troops; clear careful verbal explanations of these precede them.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of NUC WorldCat and the CCPBE locate => only three copies worldwide of which only one is in the U.S. West Point.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Contemporary signature of "Velez" on title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Palau. On Doyle see: DNB online. Dark brown speckled calf black gilt-lettered title-label a little chipped to gilt-ruled spine marbled endpapers; binding lightly rubbed. Age-toning and general light soiling occasionally a dog-ear or a spot all plates clean well-attached and whole at folds. => A very sound very good copy. en la Imprenta Tormentaria á cargo de Juan Domingo Villegas unknown books
18413584Madrid: Boix 1841. Small folio. 4 vols. in 2. I: 6 ff. 335 1 blank pp. II: 1 f. 334 i.e. 332 pp. 1 index f. III: 1 f. 319 1 blank pp. 1 f. IV:1 f. 147 1 blank pp. 1 f.; 105 1 31 1 pp. all indices. <br><br>Handsome mid-19th century edition of the first comprehensive compilation of the laws of the Spanish Indies. Antonio Rodríguez de León Pinello compiled it by 1635 but it circulated only in manuscript until Fernando Jiménez de Paniagua brought it up to date and saw the result through the press in 1681. Prior to the publication of this massive work it was common practice for lawyers and courts in the various legal districts of the New World i.e. audiencias to compile in manuscript the laws in force in order that they might be used as precedents. Upon publication of this code the number of precedents did not as might have been expected decrease via "regularization" but instead increased: The courts continued to accept the cases and laws on point in the old local manuscript compilations and also those contained in the Recopilación! In sum this is a major work for all collections of international and Hispanic-specific law.<br>Â Â Â Â The first edition is very uncommon in today's marketplace meaning most scholars and collectors must settle for a later edition such as this fifth which has the happy advantage of being handsomely printed in double-column format. This copy is attractively bound as well. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Tape adhered to title-pages at inner margin; some other old repairs. Ownership signatures on title-page. All edges marbled. A nice set. Boix unknown books
1609WRCAM33906The Hague: Hillebrant Iacobz 1609. 11pp. Large vignette on titlepage. Modern marbled boards. Very good. The original edition of the official Dutch text of the "Twelve Years' Truce" between the United Provinces and Spain. There are thirty- eight articles of which nine deal with foreign trade. The present issue undoubtedly the first contains a few errors which were corrected in later issues. By this treaty the Dutch agreed to stay out of Spanish controlled possessions in the New World. However it conceded the right of the Dutch to trade in the East Indies and on the basis of this and the breathing room the treaty gave them they were able to rout the Spanish in the 1620s. Savelle calls the Twelve Years' Truce "a great international triumph for all the challengers of the Hispano-Portuguese monopoly" on New World colonization since it marked the first explicit recognition of the right of any non- Iberian people to sail to the Americas. Spain tacitly recognized the right of the Dutch to own colonies in the New World a right which the Dutch French and British vigorously pursued in the ensuing decades. An important treaty and quite scarce. OCLC locates three copies. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. DAVENPORT 28. KNUTTEL 1589. SAVELLE THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY pp.31-34. OCLC 8525118 17751928. Hillebrant Iacobz hardcover books
1795689451795. Madrid 1795. Folio 11-3/4" x 8". Madrid 1795. Folio 11-3/4" x 8". King Carlos IV Organizes Spain's Lucrative Silver Mines of Potosi Spain. Real Banco de San Carlos de Potosi. Real Cedula de Incorporacion de el Banco de Potosi a la Real Hacienda y Ordenanzas Para su Regimen y Gobierno: Con Arreglo a las Leyes de Indias y Demas Reales Disposiciones que al Margen se Citan: de Orden de S.M. Madrid: En la Imprenta de Don Benito Cano 1795. xii 67 107 pp. Final 107 un-numbered pages are charts and tables 4 folding. Folio 11-3/4" x 8". Contemporary tree sheep gilt fillets to boards gilt fillets to spine recased endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some loss to gilding spine abraded corners bumped and lightly worn. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to preliminaries and a few other leaves light edgewear to one of the folding tables. A handsome copy $2500. Only edition. The Bank of Potosi was organized to manage the network of mines in Potosi a mountain in present-day Bolivia. Worked by a brutally exploited force of indigenous workers later supplemented by African slaves these mines were one of the greatest sources of Spain's wealth for nearly 200 years. The Real Cedula de Incorporacion prints the certificate of incorporation granted by King Carlos IV and the charter outlining the bank's purpose organization and regulation. OCLC locates 12 copies in North America 1 in a law library Library of Congress. Sabin A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 68224. unknown books
1783WRCAM15744Bilbao 1783. 10pp. Quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Very good. A rare Spanish edition of the preliminary articles of peace between Spain and England which ended their conflict in the American Revolution. The primary impact of this treaty was to return the Floridas to Spain thus setting the stage for conflicts between the United States and Spain on its southern and western borders and ending twenty years of British control of the Floridas which had effectively been lost when Galvez seized Pensacola in 1781. DAVENPORT 170. SERVIES 597 Madrid ed. hardcover books
1803WRCAM40396Madrid: En la imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra 1803. 2xxxvi19498pp. Folio. Contemporary Spanish calf spine gilt leather label. Lightly rubbed at extremities boards lightly scuffed. Contents bright and clean. Near fine. Administrative regulations for Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and the Philippines. These laws represent the last ditch efforts of the Spanish monarchy to bring reform to the administration of their colonial holdings in the Americas. Six years later in 1809 the first declaration of independence from Spanish rule would be signed in Quito in modern Ecuador which would be the first spark of the movement for independence across Spain's American colonies. With this ORDENANZA Spain hoped to restructure and reform colonial rule in such a way to prevent that from happening. A nice piece of Spanish-American history. MEDINA BHA 5971. PALAU 202973. En la imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra hardcover books
18495749Madrid: La Viuda de Burgos 1850 i.e. 1849. 8vo signed in 4s 22.1 cm 8.65". 761 1 blank pp. <br><br>Bound for presentation by Queen Isabella. Complete budgetary accounting for the year 1850 issued by the Spanish government printed by a woman printer of Madrid and here in an early example of the work of noted Madrid binder Ginesta.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Signed presentation binding by Miguel Ginesta II of Madrid of oxblood straight-grain morocco covers framed in double gilt fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesques and the gilt-stamped coat of arms of Queen Isabella II of Spain; spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesques. Board edges and turn-ins gilt-stamped pink moiré endpapers all edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Infante Duc de Montpensier sixth son of King Louis Philippe husband of the Infanta Maria Louisa Queen Isabella's sister with his bookplate. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 236716. Binding as described above covers showing only very minor wear spine slightly faded. Front pastedown with bookplate described above. Pages gently age-toned a few showing mild foxing but most clean. Very attractive. La Viuda de Burgos unknown books
1783WRCAM15743Paris 1783. 8pp. Tall folio designed to be folded with docket title sideways on last leaf. Later marbled boards leather label. Near fine. A French printing of the treaty between Spain and England adopted as part of the general peace of Sept. 3 1783. Through this treaty Spain reacquired the Floridas and the Mediterranean island of Minorca while Britain retained Gibraltar and acquired the Bahamas. This printing is unrecorded so far as we can discover. It seems to have been printed for the use of the French commissioners at the time of signing and is in folio form with docket printed on the side so that it could be folded and put in a file. It probably represents a printing during the later stages of the negotiation process. OCLC locates only microfiche copies made from an original in the Public Archives of Canada. Rare. DAVENPORT 174. OCLC 19494242. A different printing of this treaty is recorded as: SERVIES 598. SABIN 96558. PALAU 339315. hardcover books
1783WRCAM20839London 1783. 10pp. printed in double-column format in parallel French and English. Small quarto. Dbd. Some old minor ink underscoring. Else very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco box. The official English publication of the preliminary articles of peace between Spain and England. By this treaty an armistice was concluded Britain gave back the Floridas to Spain and Spain restored the Bahamas to England. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 83-44. DAVENPORT 170. unknown books
