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[Argentina, Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata; Philippines interest]
Real ordenanza para el establecimiento é instruccion de intendentes de exercito i provincia en el Virreinato de Buenos-Aires
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
De orden de su Magestad [Part 2:] Leyes de la recopilacion de Indias. Madrid: imprenta Real, 1782. Folio (29.6 x 20.5cm), [62] 326 [140] [24] pp., sigs. pi-O2 P1 A-4M2 4N1 a-2l2 A-F2, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript spine-title and decoration, looped twine fasteners with vellum catches, edges sprinkled red, engraved arms at front (pi1), occasional manuscript marginalia, 3 related manuscript documents bound in at rear, respectively 10, 2, and 1 pp. dated Manila, 1785-6-7, each written in a secretarial hand, the first two signed at foot ‘Gonzalez’, the third signed ‘Ciriaco Gonzalez de Carvajal’ (see note), second part sigs. G-2K with variable worming in gutter, ramifying up to about sig. 2A then receding, occasionally touching text to minimal effect on legibility, a few old paper repairs [Palau 202982]
Provenance
Convent of San Nicolas de Tolentino, Manila, Philippines (inscription to verso of title-page).
Footnote
Library Hub traces one copy in UK libraries (National Library of Scotland). This copy contains three manuscript documents apparently signed by Ciriaco Gonzalez Carjaval (1745-c.1828), a high-ranking Spanish colonial official in the Philippines, who arrived in Manila as a judge in 1777 before serving as director of the Sociedad Patriótica de Manila between 1781 and 1787, after which he was appointed to the Audencia de Mexico, eventually returning to Spain in 1810. Similar documents bearing his signature are held by the Archivo General de Indias (e.g. shelfmark Contratacion 5534, N.1, R.8).