Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
09-10 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/968
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    226 Molina (Christoval de) Text of a Letter (in Spanish) addressed to the King of Spain, with reference to a reorganization of Indian labour in Mexico, 4 pp. half calf sm. folio. [Madrid, July 26, 1629] ** —that the Natives should not be “ granted ” oftener than once a year, as amongst callous Spanish slave owners, as well as Indian chiefs the practice was, to sell and barter the natives from weekly contracts, which resulted in their exhaustion from overwork, and prevented them from serving in the Gold and Silver mines which yielded valuable tithes to the Royal Treasury. 227 Molina. Letter (in Spanish) addressed to the King of Spain relating to indian labour in Mexico, and pleading for easier terms for the natives, half calf sm. folio. dated Madrid June 28, 1628 228 Molina. Text of a Letter (in Spanish) addressed to the King of Spain with reference to the reorganization of Slave labour in Mexico, half calf sm. folio. [Madrid, 18 August, 1629 | 229 Information Juridica, que remite la Provincia de le SSmo. Rosario de Philipines, de la Orden de Predicadores, 4 su Magestad, a favor de sus Religiosos, por ocasion de auer intenta do sus emulos el de sacre- ditarla en estos Reynos, y ante su Magestad, calf folio. [1682] 230 Dantiny (Don Marcello) Dialogos Familiares de la Agricultura Yndiana entre un Yrlandes Catholico y un Escoces Protestante donde se en- cuentra la piedra filosophal y Medicina universal de el contagio o enfermedad que los Espanoles padecen en su Comercio de las Yndias, ete. the clearly written original manuscript on 62 pp. original calf 1764 *, The first portion of this Manuscript gives an account of the sufferings of the Spaniards during their commercial intercourse with the Indians. The second part deals with the revenues from Tobacco, Minerals, etc. 231 Calderon (Melchor, Commissary of the Inquisition at Santiago) Tratado de la importancia y utilidad que ay en dar por Esclavos a los Indios rebelados de Chile, 24 yp. (text wormed) Santiago de Chile, c. 1600 *, An interesting tract, presenting the case for and against claiming the Chilean Indian rebels for slaves. 232 Xaramillo (Ant.) Memorial al Rey por la Provincia de la Compania de Jesus de las Islas Filipinas [ Manila, 1688|—-Pedroche (Christoval) Breve, y compendiosa relacion de la Estranez, y Destierro de el senor Arcobispo, Don Fray Phelipe Pardo, Arcobispo de Manila [ Hospital de San Gabriel, 1863|—Relacion escrita por uno de los Padres de la Mission, Mariana, remitida a Mexico, desde la Isla que llamavan antes de Goan. &c. [ Seville, 1674|—Manila. Defensa de la Ciudad, y comercio de Manila, Cabeza de las Islas Philipinas [Madrid, 1720], boards (4) D2
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