Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    89 DAVILA (Dr. Francisco), a Canon of the Cathedral of Lima. Memorial y Informacion sobre las bobedas debaxo su Cemen- terio. 24 pp., folio, wrappers. Lima, Geronymo de Contreras, 1635. £12 Ios Not in Sabin, or Palau’s Manual. This work of the learned canon was unknown to Medina, La Imprenta en Lima. The Cathedral of Lima had erected some booths and let them as shops in its cemetery, but had been prevented by the 2) authorities. | The above gives a history of the dispute and is a defence of the ecclesiastical authorities. 90 DAVILA Y LUGO (Francisco), of the Island of San Juan of Portorico. Memorial al Rey. 4 pp., folio, wrappers. (Madrid, 1638.) £5 58 Not in Medina, or Palau’s Manual. Relation of Services to the King with an account of the part played by his ancestors in the discovery and settlement of Santa Marta, the new kingdom of Granada, Peru, Porto Rico. The Petitioner was taken prisoner by the Dutch in 1629, had been governor of the Honduras, and had many adventures with the Indians, who had wounded him, etc.
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