(LAW) Solorzano Pereira Juan de Disputationem de Indiarum ju

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(LAW.) Solorzano Pereira, Juan de. Disputationem de Indiarum jure. 2 engraved additional title pages, one portrait plate of the author, lacking one or two plates. [28], 751, [101]; [52], 1076, [135] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; waste sheets from an early book used as endpapers of Volume I, no endpapers in Volume II, pages I:164 and 173 left blank, a few short tears, minor dampstaining and foxing; inked library stamps on title pages and elsewhere, small inked "MM" stamps on verso of titles and page 52. Madrid: Martínez, 1629 and 1639

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first edition. An important analysis of Spanish colonial law, by a former Lima judge. The engraved titles by Cordier depict Philip IV seated between allegorical figures of Spain and America. Collation is inconsistent in the standard sources: European Americana 629/136, 639/12; JCB II, pages 224 and 278 (calls for portrait of Olivares not found here); Medina BHA 863, 1006 (calls for frontispieces in both volumes); Palau 318974-5; Sabin 86525-6.