[Peru and New Spain]:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

EL REY. POR QUANTO CONVINIENDO À MI SERVICIO TENER NOTICIA INDIVIDUAL DE LOS REMATES DE RAMOS DE RENTAS DE MI REAL HACIENDA...[caption title]. A rare broadside proclamation by Philip V, King of Spain, demanding that news of all business closings and information regarding revenues in the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain be transmitted to the Council of the Indies. Printed in Madrid and distributed to royal officials in both Spain and the New World, the document is addressed to the viceroys, officials of the treasury, and other officials whose duties are concerned with executing this order. This copy, accomplished at Aranjuez on May 22, 1737, is signed by Simon Alonso de la Torre as representative of the King of Spain with the inscription: "Yo el Rey." A manuscript note on the verso, written in the city of Santiago de Chile on November 14, 1738, describes the distribution of this copy and reiterates the content of the printed broadside.A rare broadside concerned with royal finances in both the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain, with a contemporary manuscript inscription recording the enforcement of the proclamation. Not in Medina BHA, nor on OCLC.

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