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MEXICO. Anonymous Manuscript account of the problems faced by the Mexican village of Chicguagua, one of the richest mining camps in North Central Mexico, including observations on the behaviour of native tribes and Spanish settlers, San Felipe el Real, Mexico. Creation dates: June 1775
FERDINAND AND ISABELLA, King and Queen of Spain. Original signed royal decree announcing royal protection to the Arieta brothers during their sea-trading affairs. Creation dates: Dec 1488
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Autograph Letter Signed in his capacity as Court Painter, to Don Pedro Ceballos (then Secretary of State under Charles IV), about portraits of the King and Queen, with an Autograph Note by Ceballos. Creation dates: Aug 1801
Manuscript Commonplace Book, known (since 1985) as Edmond Halley's Commonplace Book, an attribution with no real foundation, and probably based on a misunderstanding, written in a number of hands, on literary and scientific topics ranging from religion and science to carpentry, fishing and the E...
IXTLILXOCHITL, Fernando de Alva. Codex Chimalpahin and historical works, in Spanish and Nahuatl, [Mexico]. Christie's, ref. YN001/10. Creation dates: [17th century]
QUEEN CATARINA OF PORTUGAL. Document signed by the Queen, consort of King Joao III, addressed to D. Lope Hurtado de Mendoza, Spain's ambassador to Portugal, requesting that he should write a letter recommending the appointment of her page to the Spanish royal household, and referring to other ma...