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Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![20 ARENAS (Pedro de). Vocabulario Manual de las Lenguas Castellana, y Mexicana. En que se contienen las palabras, preguntas, y respuestas mas com- unes, y ordinarias que se suelen offrecer en el trato, y communi- cacion entre Espanoles, é Indios. First EDITION. I2mo, morocco. Mexico, Henrico Martinez (1611). (See Illustration opposite). £52 Ios Palau’s Manual, Vol. I, p. 103. Sabin, 1935. Ternaux, 340. Medina, La Imprenta en Mexico, 256. : A VOLUME OF GREAT RARITY. The volume is in two parts, Spanish-Mexican Vocabulary, and Mexican- Spanish, with a separate title-page to each part. 21 [ARGENTINE INDEPENDENCE. ] Medios de pacificar las provincias de Buenos Ayres segun se proponen en el papel titulado “ Adicion o Apendice de la Me- moria.’”’ Manuscript in Spanish 4 pp., folio. [ Madrid, circa 1817. | 3 £9 Ios This manuscript consists of twelve paragraphs, outlining twelve measures for the pacification of the disturbed area round Buenos Aires, during the Argentine insurrection. It is apparently the draft of a set of instructions to the Spanish Viceroy, issued by the Indies Ministry at Madrid; and, in the light of subsequent events, the aaa self-assurance of the statement “ give the insurgents to under- stand that they lack the necessary political support in order to obtain the inde- pendence to which they aspire,” makes interesting reading. Likewise, the puerile attempt to frighten the insurgents into abandoning their project by predicting that “instead of independence, they will come under the dominion of Brazil, aided by the British Government ”’.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31649816_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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