Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/60
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CORTES (FERNANDO)—continued. occupying a soil that teemed with mineral treasures and with a boundless variety of vegetable products, stores of wealth, both natural and artificial, that seemed, for the first time, to realise the golden dreams in which the great discoverer of the New World had so fondly, and in his own day, so fallaciously, indulged. Well might the scholar of that age exult in the revelation of these wonders, which so many had long, but in vain, desired to see.’’ This letter was translated into Latin by Petrus Savorgnanus, and published in 1524. [Some words on last leaf in facsimile. ] WITH THE LAW FORBIDDING FOREIGNERS TO TRADE IN THE INDIES 1529 A.D. [4921] Quaderno de las Cortes: que en Valladolid tuvo su Magestad del Emperador y Rey nuestro sefior el afio de 1523: En el qual ay muchas leyes e decissiones nuevas: y apro- bacion y declaracion de muchas pregmaticas y leyes del reyno sin el qual ningun jurisperito ni administrador de justicia deve estar. Title in Gothic letter beneath woodcut coat-of-arms within woodcut border. Text in Gothic letter, 46 lines to a full page. Small folio, half morocco. Burgos, Juan de Junta, 1529. £16 16s Palau’s Manual, Vol. VI, p. 183. Not in Ajfibarro’s Burgos bibliography. An interesting publication, containing the text of a hundred and six petitions which were dealt with by the Emperor Charles V at the Valladolid courts in 1523 ; and the rulings given in each case. Amongst them is a petition requesting that the date of term or periods of slave grants should not be altered after the grant had once been made; and that the Emperor should not allow any foreigners to trade in the Indies. The reply is: that the request would be complied with.
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