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(LAW.)
Recopilacion de leyes de los Reynos de las Indias.
[12], 660; [6], 613;
[4], 562, 262 pages. 3 volumes. Folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear, Volume I lacking
spine label; minor worming, minor dampstaining, edges tinted red; inked stamps on title
pages and elsewhere.
Madrid: Ibarra, 1791
[1,500/2,500]
Fourth edition of the compilation of laws governing Spain’s American and Philippine colonies.
Palau 137464; Sabin 68389.
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(LAW.) Solorzano Pereira, Juan de.
Disputationem de Indiarum jure.
2 engraved additional title pages, one portrait plate of the author, lacking one or two plates.
[28], 751, [101]; [52], 1076, [135] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary vellum, moderate
wear; waste sheets from an early book used as endpapers of Volume I, no endpapers in
Volume II, pages I:164 and 173 left blank, a few short tears, minor dampstaining and
foxing; inked library stamps on title pages and elsewhere, small inked “MM” stamps on
verso of titles and page 52.
Madrid: Martínez, 1629 and 1639
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
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An important analysis of Spanish colonial law, by a former Lima judge. The
engraved titles by Cordier depict Philip IV seated between allegorical figures of Spain and
America. Collation is inconsistent in the standard sources: European Americana 629/136,
639/12; JCB II, pages 224 and 278 (calls for portrait of Olivares not found here); Medina
BHA 863, 1006 (calls for frontispieces in both volumes); Palau 318974-5; Sabin 86525-6.
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