“Tocante a la coca del cuzco…”

by Andrés Hurtado De Menzoda Y. Cabrera, Margués de

$4,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

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Early manuscript ordinance in the name of the 5th viceroy of Peru, Hurtado (1555-60), evidently unpublished, relating to the cultivation of coca leaves in early colonial Peru, and an important document for the importance of the coca trade for both Spanish commercial interests and social control of the indigenous population..... More

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