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Sale 2687 - Lot 288

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1797.) Juan Navarro. Circular on a duty-free trade mission to the Californias. 2 printed pages, 11½ x 8 inches, signed in type by Juan Navarro with his manuscript rubric, and marked in manuscript with the alcabalas office in the city of Durango; folds, minor wear. Mexico, 26 January 1797
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Grants Captain José Ignacio de Inciarte of the Frigate Neptuno an exemption on alcabalas duties for goods shipped from Cadiz to San Blas in Baja California and to elsewhere in the Californias. The proposed voyage is discussed in Bancroft's "History of California," page 627, as part of an effort to stimulate trade with the remote Baja California settlements. Not traced at auction; not in Medina or Palau.

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