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HISPANICA — Una miscelánea

In SOME Cultures, OnlyBAD Women HIDE Their FACES

•  Scarce royal proclamation forbidding women from appearing in public wearing hats that prevent their faces from being plainly seen and recognized, also printed in Granada in the same year.
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•  Palau 87353 (for Granada printing). Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with shadow of pencilled numeral and faintly inked earlier numeral in upper margin. Pages creased but clean, with tiny hole along fold of last leaf.

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Watch Your Mouth!

•  Proclamation regarding swearing and blasphemy, with the woodcut arms of Spain on the title-page. Swearing using the Lord’s name is only allowed for legal matters, including appearances in court or before the Inquisition, and the making of contracts. Scarce. Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Not in Palau. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with shadow of pencilled numeral and faintly inked earlier numeral in upper margin. Pages creased but clean.

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Free Trade forSouth America

•  The king here adds to his 16 October 1765 decree that established free commerce for the Caribbean islands and the provinces of Campeche, Santa Marta, and Rio del Hacha. He now extends the privilege to the viceroyalty of Buenos Aires, the legal ports on the Pacific coast, and elsewhere in South America. Click the images for enlargements.

Handsomely printed, with the royal coat of arms on the title-page and same page with a handsome decorative border. One large woodcut initial.

•  Palau 251081.   20th-century quarter vellum with green cloth sides. Spine lettered in black and red. Crisp copy.  (28863)

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We Are SERIOUS, Here!

•  Announcing strict enforcement of the law that prohibits importation of all outer and under garments manufactured abroad. A woodcut of the royal arms on the title. Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Removed from a bound volume; a few wormholes.  (24392)

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Encouraging Local Industry

•  Finds that local manufacture of linen and textiles is beneficial and removes restrictions on it; the "locality" is Vich, near Barcelona. The title-page has a nifty woodcut of the royal arms. Originally printed in Madrid. Click the interior image for an enlargement.

•  Modern half vellum over burgundy cloth sides. Contemporary inked notation at top right corner of title-page. Very good. (21056)

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Dyers & Loomers areEngaged in Essential Services!

•  Exempts master dyers, and wool- and silk-loomers, from military service. Woodcut of the royal arms on title.

•  Lightly in later wrappers; small ownership stamp eradicated from title-page. A very good exemplar.  (24386)

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Protecting Cotton Growers

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•  Republication for the Catalan region of a royal decree (San Lorenzo, 14 November 1771) prohibiting importation of cotton goods manufactured abroad. Contains a decorative woodcut initial.

•  Half vellum with brown cloth sides by Brugalla. Very good copy.  (20392)

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Protecting theSpanish Fashion Industry

•  Royal decree forbidding importation of caps, gloves, stockings, sashes, and other goods made of linen, wool, and cotton. A very nice woodcut of the royal arms on the title. Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Disbound, with a bit of pinhole worming not affecting text; lightly laid into later wrappers.  (24388)

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War with England / Free Trade in American Corn & Wheat

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•  Royal decree (original promulgated in Madrid, 10 September 1771) permitting free entry into Spain of foreign grains including wheat and maize. A woodcut of the royal arms on the title.

•  Palau 239456ii.   Half vellum with caramel cloth sides by Brugalla. Excellent copy.  (20394)

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Ecclesiastical Abuses

•  Viceroy Branciforte publishes the royal decree of 29 December 1796 concerning vacant ecclesiastical posts, judicial review of clerics' performance in office, etc. The Mexico City printing is dated 29 August 1797. Click the image for an enlargement.

No copies traced via WorldCat.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico.   Very good condition.  (27951)

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War & Taxes & Exceptions

•  The continued unplanned-for costs of participating in the War of the First Coalition (attempting to contain the French Revolution) are causing tax increases but the king has decided to exept “lanzas y medias-anatas de los titulos.” Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico.   Very good condition.  (27952)

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Troublesome Soldiers to FaceCriminal Courts

Spain.

•  Mexico City printing of the royal decree of 31 August 1799 in which the crown declares null and void the use of the fuero militar in cases of mutiny, attempted mutiny, and rebellion. He orders that all such cases fall under the jurisdiction of the audiencias and not the military courts.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in not in González de Cossío, 510.   Removed from a nonce volume. Left margin irregular.  (25824)

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Sumptuary Standards — Barcelona Edition

•  Reprinting in Barcelona of this royal decree promulgated 19 July 1804 and first published in Madrid. Regulating the gold braid and other ornaments worn by liveried servants, and concerning uniforms of coachmen and runners. With a woodcut of the royal arms on the title-page.

•  Folded and never sewn; as issued.  (24389)

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Educational & Career Rights for
    Blacks in the Spanish Empire

•  First New World printing of a major human rights act.  The decree granting all Spanish subjects of African heritage the right to an education through the university and post-graduate level and the right to take orders and habits in the clergy. Click the image to the right
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While Ferdinand VII remained the prisoner of Napoleon, the Regency promulgated several important human rights acts, and this was one of the most important. The Regency ratified and published it 29 January and on 31 January it was ordered distributed throughout the empire.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in Garritz, Impresos novohispanos; not in Sutro. One horizontal fold, top margin a little crumpled and irregular; left margin with a V-shaped bit of blank margin missing at fold, otherwise only a little irregular. Revenue stamps on the verso. Viceroy Venegas’s paraph (“rúbrica”) below his printed name. A very good copy.

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Freedom of the Press in the Spanish Empire

Spain.

•  First New World printing of the 12 November 1810 human rights act granting freedom of the press to the inhabitants of the Spanish empire. This 20-article decree does set a few limits on the freedom, but none that are onerous, simply making one liable for slander, sedition, and the like. While Ferdinand VII remained the prisoner of Napoleon, the Regency promulgated several important human rights acts; the Regency ratified and published this one 10 November 1810, but Viceroy Venegas delayed publishing it because of the Hidalgo and other rebellions.

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1612. Not in Medina, Mexico; not in Sutro. One horizontal fold; right margin a little crumpled. Revenue stamps on the verso. Viceroy Venegas’s paraph (“rúbrica”) below his printed name. A very good copy.

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A Truly PECULIAR Publication

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•  Bizarre concatenation of document and newspaper accounts: A royal decree forbidding government employees to receive two salaries, another ending taxes and fiscal impositions of the already abolished Inquisition, a circular from the Minister of War, a news report of a boy in South Carolina who suffered severe burns and how the application of raw cotton helped.

No copy located via NUC Pre-1956 and WoldCat locates only the copy at Yale.

•  Medina, Puebla, 1842.   Folded as issued; never bound. Light foxing.  (29988)

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The KEYSTONE of Hispanic-American Colonial Law
A VeryHANDSOME Edition

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•  Handsome mid-19th century edition of the first comprehensive compilation of the laws of the Spanish Indies. Antonio Rodríguez de León Pinello compiled it by 1635, but it circulated only in manuscript until Fernando Jiménez de Paniagua brought it up to date and saw the result through the press in 1681. Prior to the publication of this massive work, it was common practice for lawyers and courts in the various legal districts of the New World (i.e., audiencias) to compile in manuscript the laws in force in order that they might be used as precedents. Upon publication of this code, the number of precedents did not (as might have been expected) decrease via "regularization" but instead increased: The courts continued to accept the cases and laws on point in the old local manuscript compilations and also those contained in the Recopilación!

In sum, this is a major work for all collections of international and Hispanic-specific law. The first edition is very uncommon in today's marketplace, meaning most scholars and collectors must settle for a later edition, such as this fifth—which has the happy advantage of being handsomely printed in double-column format. This copy is attractively bound, as well.

•  Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Marbled edges. Tape adhered to one title-page at inner margin. Ownershjp signatures on title-page. A nice set.

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Abolition of theTOBACCO Monopoly

Spain.

•  The first printing of the 31-clause decree abolishing the Crown's tobacco monopoly, creating free trade in the commodity "in both [the Old and New] worlds," scrapping the old tax structure and instituting a new one, and addressing what is to be done with the government employees in the Tobacco Branch.

•  Not in Palau (?); not in Maggs, Bibl. Amer.; not in Harper, Catalogue XVI. Excised from a volume and leaves no longer integral, but now rehinged. Light stain in inner margin. Rubber-stamped numbers in upper margins. Manuscript notes indicating that this copy was sent to authorities in Chile. Now housed in a quarter cloth (faux leather) folder with marbled paper sides. A nice copy of an important economic document.

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Bound forPresentation by Queen Isabella

Spain. 

•  Complete budgetary accounting for the year 1850, issued by the Spanish government, printed by a woman printer of Madrid, and here in an early example of the work of noted Madrid binder Ginesta.

Binding: Signed presentation binding by Miguel Ginesta II of Madrid, of oxblood straight-grain morocco, covers framed in double gilt fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesques and the gilt-stamped coat of arms of Queen Isabella II of Spain; spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesques. Board edges and turn-ins gilt-stamped, pink moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.

Provenance: Infante Duc de Montpensier (sixth son of King Louis Philippe), husband of the Infanta Maria Louisa (Queen Isabella’s sister), with his bookplate.

•  Palau 236716. Binding as described above, covers showing only very minor wear, spine slightly faded. Front pastedown with bookplate described above. Pages gently age-toned, a few showing mild foxing but most clean. Very attractive.

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He’s Back! — Occasional Poetry “del pueblo”
 An Ephemerum of 1814

•  An anonymous patriotic poem/song (without music), printed in double-column format, celebrating the return of Ferdinand VII to the throne of Spain. An interesting and rare example of this sort of Spanish poetry. 

Not in NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, or Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español.

•  Not in Palau. Modern marbled boards with cordovan-colored gilt morocco title-label on front cover. A very good copy.

Satirical Political Poetry

•  The political turmoil of Spain in the poetical form of a romance. References to Felipe V and to Lord Stanhope in Madrid.

•  Palau 308809 and 308810 (same work with different attributed dates; that of 1750 clearly erroneous). Disbound, with pen-trials and some worming in gutter margin.

An Art Collector's Estate

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•  Suárez de Toledo seems to have been a serious collector of oil portraits — including one of Hernando Cortés and one of the Queen of France — as well as of religious art, silver, and other “objets d'art.” The several inventories present in this cahier document his passion, with the other documents further telling the story of the complicated settlement of the estate by the heirs.

•  Written by several notaries so hands are varied. Stitching starting to loosen. A very few leaves with small loss of text to a hungry rodent.  (27598)

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Colonial Support for theRoyal Retreat — MS. Accounting, 1781–85

(Subsidies for the Escorial).

•  Certified copy of a document relating to the 13,200 ducats annually due the monks of the monastery of the Escorial in Spain, promised them in perpetuity by King Philip IV in 1654. In exchange for this annual subsidy of proceeds from encomiendas in Huaylas, Chuquitanta, Conchucas, and other regions in Peru, the monks promised to say masses and to do certain other religious acts for the crown. This document contains specific and detailed accounting data for the years 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, and 1785.

•  Sewn, in good condition.

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A Manual for Confessors

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•  Tamburini (1591–1675) was an Italian Jesuit who published his Methodus expeditae confessionis, tum pro confessariis tum pro poenitentibus for the first time at Milan in 1648. It enjoyed considerable success with at least ten editions in the 17th century and six in the 18th. This is the first New World edition.

An interesting work on confession and Christian ethics, this was written for confessors, covering a multitude of topics from the general concept of confession to superstition, sacrilege, adultery, lying during confession, and on to absolution. Tamburini also addresses condemned propositions and speculations.

Searches of NUC Pre-1956 and WorldCat locate fewer than eight copies of this edition in U.S. libraries.

•  Medina, Mexico. 4745; this edition not in DeBacker-Sommervogel.   Contemporary Mexican sheep binding, gilt spine extra, all edges red; covers with wear and abrasions, spine tips pulled with loss of leather and a small area of old, red, transluscent staining at base. Lacks half-title (half-titles are rare in Mexican books of this era). Small worming to lower inner margin throughout, most often only pinhole but occasionally into the text and touching letters. Generally, a nice and clean little book.  (29855)

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Have You Seen the Light? If Not, Let Mary Help You

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•  Sole New World edition, following the Peninsular editions of 1751 and 1757; on Mary and the religious aspects of light.

Also present in this edition are an “extracto de una carta, respuesta á la en que se pidiò informe de lo sucedido en Sicilia sobre la practica de esta devocion, y un triduo para celebrar la fiesta de la Madre Santissima de la Luz.”

Searches of NUC Pre-1956 and WorldCat locate only six copies in U.S. libraries.

A scarce Mariology work.

•  Palau 32786; Medina, Mexico, 4856.   Original limp vellum; faded red shelfmark at base of spine. Clean, crisp copy.  (29847)

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TEACHINGPoetics & Semiotics in 1753

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•  Mexican schoolbook for use of the students at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso written by an Italian Jesuit (1691–1724) who did not live to see even the very first edition printed (Panormi [i.e., Palermo], 1725). In this, the first New World edition, the text is edited and brought into line with the poetics of the “preceptistas” by Mexican-born Jesuit José Mariano Vallarta y Palma (1719–90).

This Arte is consideredimportant in the history of Mexican colonial poetry and the teaching thereof and isone of the earliest works of the theory of poetics printed in the New World.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership inscription on the front free endpaper of Bach. Angel Francisco Valderas.

•  Medina, La imprenta en México, 4124; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 108; Pimentel, Historia crítica de la poesía en México, 458–59.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties. Fore-edge of front cover and top edge of front free endpaper gnawed by a rodent, though not a very hungry one; vellum of back cover holed near center either by worm action or a natural flaw. Old waterstaining evident diagonally across most leaves, sometimes very faint and sometimes more striking but never offensive, with some corners minimally dog-eared; a neat, good, untattered copy.  (29520)

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The Lost Andrade Copy? — Dedicating a School for Girls

•  The charming parochial church in Tlaxcala was where Dr. Torres preached this sermon on the occasion of the dedication of the new building of the “Colegio de Niñas,” i.e., a secondary school for girls. The tie-in to St. Rita is that she was herself the patron of a school for girls.

In his sermon, Torres discusses the need for and goodness that comes from schools for girls. The text is printed in roman with side- and shouldernotes in italic, and contains two woodcut initials.

Rare: Medina knew of this only from the Andrade copy. WorldCat finds no copies, nor does COPAC; no copy was found via the OPACs of the Spanish National Library and the Mexican National Library. We must wonder if this IS the Andrade copy that was seen by Medina.

•  Medina, Mexico, 1260; Andrade 763.   Modern full red morocco, gilt extra on covers and spine; gilt roll of a chain design on the turn-ins. Partial, unidentified marca de fuego on top and bottom edges. A two-digit number in ink in margin of title-page; an old waterstain curving across the bottom outside page corners, light in front and heavier towards the back. In a neat cloth slipcase.  (25764)

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Grammar Dictionary & Religious Texts in Quichua/Quechua

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•  Interest during the Enlightenment in “the noble savage” helped to reawaken interest in the study of New World languages and that in turn resulted in some long out-of-print works of the early 17th century being reprinted or revised and reprinted.

Torres Rubio (1547–1638) was a native of Spain and a Jesuit: He arrived in Peru in 1579 and devoted himself to the study of both Aymara and Quechua, publishing an Aymara grammar in 1616 and his Quechua grammar in 1619. The latter work was reprinted in 1701 at which time Juan de Figueredo (1646–1723), another Jesuit, made some revisions and added a section, “Vocabulario de la lengua chinchaisuyo, y algunos modos mas usados de ella” being the “first work known to include a section on the grammar and vocabulary of the dialect [of Quechua] common to Lima. The earlier Quechua grammars and dictionaries were based on Quechua as spoken in Upper Peru and in and around Cuzco.” This third edition includes that added material.

In addition to the grammar and dictionary the work includes in Quechua a confessionary, the questions asked during the wedding ceremony, the Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary, and “the hymn and prayer devoted to the taking out of the Holy Scripture that is sung in various of the churches of this diocese every day.”

Provenance:  In an 18th-century hand, “Es de . . . Dn. Mariano Navia de Bolaño. On rear pastedown, “Collated perfect. May 22d / [18]94 J.J.”

•  Medina, Lima, 1068; Medina, Lenguas quechua y aymará, 39; Viñaza 336; Sabin 96271; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2409. Not in DeBacker-Sommervogel.   Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties, yapp edges. Very limited, rather neat pinhole worming; occasional spots of soil and paper somewhat browned in some sections due to nature of water in manufacture; inscriptions as above and one page of the vocabulary with contemporary annotation. A very nice, crisp copy.  (28399)

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MORE War News . . .

•  Account of battles against the French, with the Spanish forces led by Don Diego Messia, Marquis of Leganes and governor of Milan.
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•  Almirante, Bibliografía militar de España, 694; Palau 339184. Removed from a nonce volume; creased, with pages slightly age-toned.

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Survey ofLand Holdings

Ulloa Troche y Sesse, Diego.

•  Gracián and Angelina de Sesse and Sancha de Casasola established an entail (i.e., mayorazgo) and in 1731 Diego Ulloa Troche y Sesse held it. In this series of documents he sets out to get an account, via survey, of all the lands in the estate. In the end, it develops that there are 58 pieces of land in and around Olmedo.

Don Diego styles himself “señor de la Villa de la Ventosa,” and a citizen of Olmedo.

•  Bound in limp vellum. Written in a very clear hand. Very good condition.

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Unique Bifolium: AnUnrecorded Example of Early Printing
      from GUATEMALA

Urbis, & Orbis.

•  All 17th-century, and even 18th-century, printing from Guatemala is extremely rare, and the decree in hand is unrecorded.
Our image above shows clearly that we have in hand an intact bifolium, i.e., two copies, as printed, on an uncut half sheet—one on the recto (at right, in the image, showing through the paper), and one on the verso (at the left)—the two never having been separated.

Guatemala was the fourth Latin American city to have a printing press (after Mexico, Lima, and Puebla de los Angeles); the press was brought at the instigation of the bishop of Guatemala, Payo Enríquez de Ribera, who wished to have a work of his own published. In reply to the bishop's appeal for a printer, José Pineda Ibarra arrived at Antigua in 1660. He had worked as an assistant to several printers in Mexico, but according to Medina did not have his own press; when Payo de Ribera's representative found him, he had moved to Puebla, but was apparently not doing well there. (Medina does not list him as a printer in Puebla—presumably he was again working for others.) The bishop apparently paid for the press that was taken to Guatemala, and Pineda Ibarra later purchased it from him. Torre Revello (quoted in Furlong) remarks that despite the dearth of materials, Pineda Ibarra managed to print exceedingly well: "Ningún tipógrafo de los que le sucedieron, durante el periodo colonial, logró superar la pulchritud y elegancia de sus trabajos." This example shows not only several sizes of type, but a woodcut of a papal tiara, at the top of the edict, flanked by typographical ornaments; a line of typographical ornament also appears on either side of the date of the edict, near the bottom of the page.

The various religious orders in Guatemala had promised to make it worth the while of a printer to come, by giving him commissions. Judging from the list of over 30 works Pineda Ibarra printed before 1673—eulogies, sermons, constitutions, regulations, descriptions of religious festivities—the orders fulfilled their promise; his major productions, however, were Bishop de Ribera's Explicatio apologetica nonnullarum propositionum . . . , 1663, and Diego Saenz Ovecuri's La Thomasiada, 1667. Also a bookseller and binder, Pineda Ibarra died in 1679. He was succeeded in 1681 by his son, Antonio de Pineda Ibarra, under whom the press operated until 1721.

The text in hand, a papal edict of 23 July 1672, changes the office for St. Peter Nolasco used by Mercedarians from semiduplex to duplex, at the request of the Queen of France. The Orden Real de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Redemción de Cautivos, was already established in Guatemala (cf. Medina, Guatemala, 38), and probably paid Pineda Ibarra to print this work.

•  Not in Medina, Guatemala; on the printer, see: Medina's introduction, pp. xviii–xx. Not in Valenzuela, Imprenta en Guatemala; O'Ryan, Bib. Guatemalteca; NUC; BMC. See, however, Oswald, p. 539; Furlong, Orígenes, p. 91; and Woodbridge and Thompson, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, pp. 81–84.

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Avoiding aU.S. Navy Energy Crisis (1860)

U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Naval Affairs.

•  Steam-powered naval vessels of the 19th-century needed coal and lots of it. The U.S. Secretary of the Navy sought to obtain a reliable and abundant supply for the Pacific and Caribbean fleets through a contract with the Chiriqui Improvement Company of Nueva Granada; coal from the Chiriqui region of what is now Panama was to be extracted and transported for the navy's use to two ports, one on the Caribbean coast and one on the Pacific. Present here are the majority and minority reports of the House Committee on Naval Affairs. They are detailed and informative and include three highly important maps of the Chiriqui region.

•  Very Good condition, in recent wrappers.

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For a little more CARIBBEANA,  click here.

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