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Credit: Sales catalogue: Henry Stevens & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![VIII eq] AR’TA de HERNANDO Corres, Marques del Valle a see S. C. C. Mag* el rey don Carlos Quinto Mostrandole su 4) parescer acerca de los repartimientos de los yndios, sobre si conviene al seruj del rey q los naturales de la nueba Spafa esten todos en su cabe¢a, o algunos en los Spajioles pobladores della. Afio de Madxlii, r2 ff. black letter, roan. Lmpressa en Londres por Carlos Whittingham a costa de Enrique Estezans, 20 Oct. 1854 (4° 105 62) First privately printed from the original manuscript in 1854, then in the posses- sion of Mr Stevens. It is not dated, but was manifestly written in 1541 or 1542, when the Emperor and Las Casas were getting up the famous ‘‘ New Laws of the Indies,” printed in 1543. The Emperor had asked Cortes’s advice respecting the encomiendas and the treatment of the Indians in Mexico. This is the Conqueror’s sensible reply. The volume is dedicated in a long epistle in English to Leopold von Ranke, the historian, in which dedication is given an abstract of this important historical document in English. IX He) ARESCER o Determinacid de los sefores theologos de |) Salamanca sobre de que no deben ser baptizados los yndios sin examinacio estrecha de su voluntad y concepto i4ee)3} del dho sacramento. Afio de Mdxli. [In Latin.] 14 fy. eres) black letter, roan. Impressum Londini apud Carolum Whittingham, impensts Henrici Stevens, 1854 (4° 10s 62) This important manuscript was edited by Henry Stevens, and privately printed for him at the Chiswick Press in 1854 from the original, then in his possession. It is dated the first of July, 1541. Las Casas and others had complained much of the ill-treatment and slavery of the Indians by the Spaniards in America, until finally Charles V. referred the grand question to the Faculty of the Univer- sity of Salamanca, whether Indians who had been baptized could be made slaves ? This curious document is the official answer, signed by the Dean and all the Faculty. The volume has a long explanatory dedication to Sir Thomas Phillips. x fae] E MORIAL de Don Dirco Coton, Uirrey y Almirante de 4] las yndias a S. C. C. Mag* el Rey don Carlos sobre la conversion e consvacio de las gentes de las yndias, en q ofrece con su psona y hazienda de ayudar pa q aya efecto cierta negociacié q dlant de S. M. se avia puesto por pte | del clerigo Casas pa el remedio de la tira firme. Ano de Mdxx. 12 fp. black letter, voan. Impressa por Carlos Whittingham en Londres a costa We Enrique Estevans,24 junto, 1854 (4° tos 62) Edited, with Epistle Dedicatory of two pages to Dr. Reinhold Pauli, from the original manuscript of the Second Admiral of the Indies, then in the possession of Henry Stevens, and printed at the Chiswick Press. The young King of Spain, Charles, had.asked Columbus respecting the benevolent scheme of Las Casas for civilizing and christianizing the Indians of Terra Firma, urging the Admiral’s co-operation. This is Don Diego Columbus’s favourable reply. HE six preceding volumes form an interesting series of | Spanish historical tracts, printed uniformly in hlack letter, similar to that of the Las Casas tracts of 1552, and of the same sized page. The six volumes are all bound neatly in paste-grained roan of six different colours, with different side gold ornaments, and different fancy end papers. Only 100 copies of each. were printed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33160569_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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