Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufino, Basilio:

$3,875 · Offered by William Reese Company

ALOCUCION QUE END EL DIA VEINTE DE ENERO DEL AÑO MIL SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y TRES, CUMPLEAÑOS DEL REY NUESTRO SEÑOR D. CARLOS III.... After consecration and service in Spain, Sancho de Santa Justa arrived in Manila in 1767 to take up his duties as archbishop, which included overseeing the expulsion of the Jesuits. He was a native of Aragon and a member of the Society of Scholarum Piarum. In this address on the occasion of Charles III's sixty-seventh birthday he expresses himself no friend of many of the Enlightenment's ideas, but a staunch supporter of the King, his economic policies, and especially of the newly instituted practice of free commerce in the Spanish empire. On the other hand, he rails against England, its foreign commercial practices, and its ascension as a maritime powerhouse. As the title states, this was pronounced before "la Real Sociedad Patriotica de Manila." That august body was "congregada por estatuto en el salon del Real Palacio, y presidida de su protector el muy ilustre señor D. Joseph Basco, y Bargas, Balderrama y Rivera cavallero del Orden de Santiago, capitan de navio de la real armada, gobernador, y capitan general de estas Islas Filipinas, y presidente de su real audiencia, y chancilleria, director g[ene]r[a]l de las tropas de S.M. en estos dominios, superintendente general de la Real Hacienda, y Renta de Tabaco, y subdelegado de la de Correos &c. &c."The work is printed on "rice paper" (i.e. Asian paper probably from the mulberry tree), as was co

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