called the Good Huswives Closet, 1596-PARACELSUS, A Hundred and Fourteen Experiments, translated, also certaine secrets of Isacke Hollandus, etc. collected by John Hester, 1596—A TREATISE wherein is declared the sufficiencie of English Medicines for cure of all Diseases, 1580-in 1 vol. thick sm. 4to. a very curious and rare collection in whole russia binding, £10. 10s 1580-96 29026 ORDENANZAS del Consejo Real de las Indias, nuevamente recopiladas, 1637, sm. folio, hf. bd. 68 Madrid, 1647 29027 PAPELES INEDITOS (coleccion de) tocantes al gobierno, y á la expulsion de los Pp. Jesuitas, de Buenos Aires, Paraguai, Lima, Chile, etc. 43 valuable original documents, chiefly MSS. in a folio parcel, £6. 10s 1746-68 Original signed Relaciones, most of them private and official, which reveal a vast number of details absolutely necessary to supplement and correct the existing histories of the period. Amongst the signatures will be found some of the most distinguished notabilities of Spain and the Indies. 29028 PAPELES VARIOS que tocan al Libre Comercio. An extraordinary collection of Documents, containing the royal orders, and the representations in Cortes and in Council, for and against Seville and Cadiz, in connection with trading privileges between those cities and the American dependencies: Louisiana, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Peru, Chile, and La Plata, in all 25 papers, printed and manuscript, with signatures, in 1 vol. very stout sm. folio, limp vellum, from the library of Lord Orford, £5. Sec. XVIII The MS. portion includes a copy of the prohibition against the introduction of Robertson's "America" into the Spanish dominions, followed by a translation of his preface. 29029 RECOPILACION DE LEYES de los Reynos de las Indias mandadas imprimir, y publicar por el Rey D. Carlos II, 4 vols. sm. folio, vellum, rare, £2. 10s Madrid, 1681 29030 otra edicion, 4 vols. sm. folio, calf, £2. Madrid, 1841 29031 SOLORZANO PEREIRA (D. Juan de) Politica Indiana sacada en Lengua Castellana de los dos tomos del derecho, i govierno municipal de las Indias Occidentales, dividida en seis libros, en los quales se trata todo lo tocante al Descubrimiento, Descripcion, Adquisicion i Retencion de las mesmas Indias, stout sm. folio, vellum, £2. Madrid, 1648 This is the first Spanish translation of the "Disquisitiones de Indiarum Jure," published in Madrid, 1629-39. 29032 SOLORZANO y Pereyra (Don Juan de) Politica Indiana, dividida en seis libros, corregida por Fr. Ramiro de Valenzuela, 2 vols. folio, vellum, fine clean copy, 36s Madrid, en la Imprenta Real, 1776 29033 TORRENTE (Mar.) Historia de la Revolucion Hispano-Americana, 3 vols. sm. 4to. map and plans, hf. bd. 28s Madrid, 1829-30 A history of all the Spanish-American States from 1809-29. 29034 VEITIA LINAGE (J. de) Norte de la Contratacion de las Indias Occidentales (en la qual se trata de la Creacion y origen de la Real Audiencia, de los Tribunales del Consulado, de la plata, y oro, y de los assientos, de los licencias de commerciar en las Indias, de las Armadas y Flotas, los Pilotos, y un Epitome de los Puertos de las Indias, etc.), sm. folio, engraved frontispiece, bd. £2.5s Sevilla, 1672 1702 29035 VEITIA LINAGE, Norte de Contratacion, sm. folio, fine copy in old calf, with Marlborough Arms on sides, £3. 1672 29036 Spanish Rule of Trade to the West Indies, made English by Capt. John Stevens, 8vo. calf, rare, 12s 29037 VEITIA LINAGE (J. F.) Declamacion Oratoria, y alegato juridico al Rey en su Consejo de Indias, en defensa de las injurias inferidas por Pedro Domingo de Contreras, folio, limp vellum, 18s 1729 An embezzlement from the royal treasure had taken place between Acapulco and Vera Cruz, in the year 1709, in its transmission homewards from the Philippine Islands through those towns. Accusation was made against Veytia, the author of the Norte de la Contratacion, and the above orator, his nephew and heir, who, twenty years later, makes a defence which is a curious compound of pedantry and passionate fervour. 29038 WALTON (W.) Present State of the Spanish Colonies, including a particular report of Hispañola, with a general survey of the settlements in South America, 2 vols. 8vo. map and 2 plates, hf. calf, 288 29039 ZAPPULLO (Mich.) Historie di Gerusalemme, Roma, Napoli, e Venetia, aggiuntovi un compendio dell' Istorie dell' Indie (AMERICA), sm. 4to. vellum, 20s Mexico, or New Spain. а. Aztec Painted Records. 1810 Vicenza, 1603 29040 MEXICAN CHRONICLES. Pictorial Record of the History of the province of Zempuhalan (Cemboallan), portion of the Tezcuco Monarchy of Acolhuacan, sm. folio, native Manuscript painted on 16 leaves of maguey paper, a coarse cloth-like fabric apparently made from fibres of the American aloe, £500. ?Tezcuco, about 1530 According to the order in which the leaves are numbered by a comparatively modern hand, they run as follows: Folio 1 (pp. 1-2) On the obverse, a picture of Ixtlilxochitl I, King of Tezcuco (sec. xiv). Above his head are two mountainpeaks with an inscription which appears to read Tzinquliocantepetl, which may mean Mountains of Culhoacan, and beneath the hills the words Ne nemi coaxochtli meaning the Boundaryline. These inscriptions are in a large gothic letter of schoolboy style, and indicate a Mexican or Tezcucan hand soon after the conquest. The reverse of the first leaf is blank. 2 (pp. 3-4) On the obverse, a large seated figure of Tenancacaltzin (who was either the Usurper of Tenoyacan, about A.D. 1290, or the brother of the above mentioned Ixtlilxochitl), with his emblem at foot, which is formed by a group of eight amputated heads of princes. On the reverse are the figures of Tecpanacacaltzin-Topiltzin, King of the Toltecs in the twelfth AZTEC PAINTED RECORDS-continued. century, and his son Xilotzin. This leaf is intended to exhibit the ancestry of Ixtlilxochitl. 3 (pp. 5-6) On the obverse, two figures which seem to be intended for the father and mother of the last Ixtlilxochitl (Prince of Tezcuco, who allied himself to Cortes, became Christian, and was King of Tezcuco under Spanish supremacy). On the reverse is a picture of the Temple or Church of Zenpualan. 4 (pp. 7-8) On the obverse are 12 houses, on the reverse more houses and the royal residence. 5 (pp. 9-10) Obverse: two figures of a man and woman seated, with a tree or plant below. Reverse: King Ixtlilxochitl and his bride. 6 (pp. 11-12) Obverse: Maxtla, King of Acaputzalco, and his palaces. Reverse: towns and trees, with names. 66 7 (pp. 13-14) Obverse: towns and trees with names. Reverse: Totlaçata," a cacique and a town with houses. 8 (pp. 15-16) Obverse: Mountain-villages of Tepotzotlan, houses and trees. Reverse: trees, a house, and the figure of a cacique "ye Tzontlimecatl oo o o." 9 (pp. 17-18) Obverse: two figures, with houses below, showing Ixtlilxochitl's conquest of Coatitlan, and his captives. Reverse.. 10 (pp. 19-20) Obverse: King Tlaltecatzin (grandfather of Ixtlilxochitl I) and his wife (?) and some towns. Reverse: Ixtlilxchitl and another personage. 11 (pp. 21-22) Obverse: Tepaneca towns; a figure and other towns on the reverse. 12 (pp. 23-24) Obverse: a seated figure and a town, with the inscription boundary route; on the reverse, two seated figures and another town. 13 (25-26) Obverse: Town of Coaxicaltepec, with trees, and a seated figure; other towns on reverse. 14-16 (pp. 27-32) Six pages of figures of men and women, towns and trees, with inscriptions. This historical record was probably prepared for and used by the last Ixtlilxochitl, whose aid was so important to Cortes, and who was afterwards recognized as King of Tezcuco under Spanish rule. If so, it must have been one of the pinturas to which that prince's descendant Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl refers in his Relaciones, as being in his possession some seventy years later than the Conquest. 29041 MEXICAN CALENDAR, a coloured drawing in circular form on a single leaf of AGAVE-PAPER, containing the symbols of the months (the year was divided into eighteen months of twenty days each) in the outer ring of the circle, and several figures within the ring, including pictures of AZTEC PAINTED RECORDS-continued. Netzcualcoyotl, the great monarch of Aculhuacan, who restored the chief seat of the empire from Mexico to Tezcuco about 1430; and Ytzcohuatl his ally, the contemporary King of Mexico, each enthroned with his symbol in front of him, and a temple or royal residence depicted behind him. And of Hernando decor (? Cortes), seated, with a black Spanish hat on his head; and a round figure painted blue beneath his throne, which probably is intended to represent the Lake of Mexico; and Don Antonio Pimentel (son of Ixtlilxochitl, the ally of Cortes, and last native King of Tezcuco) seated, with a blue-painted figure of a mountain (the Sierras of Acolhuacan) beneath his throne. Behind them, the royal residences are depicted. The leaf is partly in rotten condition, so that the head of Ixtlilxochitl, and some of the symbols of the months, are lost. However, enough remains to stamp this with extraordinary value, enhanced further by the fact that the various figured symbols of deities' heads, birds, etc. by which the months are distinguished, are different from those which appear in the published Mexican Calendars. The names of the months are given in Castilian characters, but in the This leaf, like the historical pictures of Cemboalla or Zenpuhalan, must have been part of the Ixtlilxochitl inheritance, and have belonged to the Don Fernando de Alva of that name whose Relaciones were printed by Lord Kingsborough. 20042 CONQUEST OF CUETLAXTLAN BY MONTEZUMA THE FIRST, in 1457, Mexican painting on leather, 30 inches by 11, containing four large figures, the conqueror in his full panoply striding in front, followed AZTEC PAINTED RECORDS--continued. by a file of three captives tied together, the first of them a prince and the third a woman, £15. Sec. XV The chronological symbol in the upper right-hand corner consists of a house and the sign of the numeral 4, which correspond to the year of Christ 1457. The painting is perhaps nearly contemporary with the event. 29043 SCENES OF MEXICAN HISTORY, Mexican painting on leather, 31 inches by 27, bearing the marks of three epochs equivalent to A.D. 1445, 1456, 1458, with a group of figures to each: the first being apparently the union of a King and Queen and the birth of a child; the second the Surrender of Atonaltzin, the tyrant of Coaixtlahuacan, to Montezuma I (1456); the conquest of the Chalcas by him (in 1458); with a large central emblem which represents a man lying down in a boat in the middle of the sea, looking like a picture of the Deluge, £15. Sec. XVI 29044 THEOGONIC OR GENEALOGICAL TREE, representing apparently the succession or relationship of the deities of Mexican Mythology, including nine human or anthropoid figures, and seven symbolical ones, attached to the branches of a tree; drawn on soft leather, 24 inches by 15, £10. Sec. XVII 26045 HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO BY THE SPANIARDS, represented in contemporary native paintings: copies made in the seventeenth century from the originals which existed in the ancient convent of San Francisco in Mexico, and which have been destroyed long ago; on two long rolled sheets (size 11 ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.; and 11 ft. 8 in. by 23 in.), containing a double row of groups and figures, with explanations in the Mexican language, £70. (1550-1660) There are many hundreds of figures in this pictorial record, which is divided into about forty separate pictures of episodes of Mexican history immediately before, during, and immediately after the conquest of Cortes. 29046 KINGSBOROUGH'S OF (Lord) ANTIQUITIES MEXICO; comprising facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; |