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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    14 ALVAREZ (Francisco). Noticia del Establecimiento y poblacion de las Colonias Inglesas en la America Septentrional: Religion, orden de Gobierno, leyes y costumbres calidades de su clima, terreno, frutos, plantas y animales; y estado de su industria, artes, comercio y navega- cion. Small 4to, vellum. Madrid, Antonio Fernandez, 1778. ie 10S Palau’s Manual, Vol. I, p. 56. Sabin, No. 975. Medina, 4832. An interesting history and description of the English colonies in America, with separate chapters on the geography of Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, New England, Florida, Canada, Georgia, Virginia, etc., the customs and religion of the Indian inhabitants of the same, and the natural and mineral resources which were then open to the English. It also includes information on the industry, commerce and navigation of the colonies. 15 ALVAREZ DE CASTRO (Antonio). Por el Licenciado . . . Presidente en la Real Audiencia de la Ciudad de Guadalaxara de la Nueva Vizcaya. Con el Sefior Fiscal de el Consejo. — 60 pp., folio. Nn.p. [circa 1675. ] £10 10s This publication refers to an interesting lawsuit, in which the President of the Real hence at Guadalajara, New Spain, seeks to rescind the sentence pro- nounced against him by the Council for the Indies in 1670, on the charges which are quoted in the text. ‘The President of the Real Audiencia had been deprived of this or any other judicial office; condemned to perpetual banishment from America; a fine of twenty thousand pesos and all costs; and various other fines, on the charges brought against Don Antonio Alvarez de Castro by the “odium, rancour and animosity’ of Don Fernando de Aguilar, and Don Juan Cesati, Oidores of the Audiencia; the hostility arising from the announcement of Don Antonio’s appoint- ment against the oferuaual treatment which his predecessor, Don Antonio de Ulloa, had promised to his own friends. ‘The ninety-three charges included an alleged leniency towards one Lazaro de Mesa, whose sentence of four years’ im- prisonment in Havana had been commuted “for a consideration’; the wrongful imprisonment of the Alcalde Francisco de Mendoza; the appointment of unworthy and incapable persons to judicial and administrative posts; and other unjust and preferential treatment in return for bribes.