Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 384

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICO--1771.) Plan de una compañia de accionistas para fomentar con actividad el beneficio de las ricas minas de Sonora y Cinaloa, y restablecer la pesquería de perlas en el Golfo de Californias. [8] pages. 4to, unbound; small inked "MM" stamps on pages 2 and 6. In modern cloth folding case. [México, 15 April 1771]
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Prospectus for a Spanish mining company, issued 4 years after the expulsion of the Jesuits who had previously dominated Spanish activities in Arizona. "The company proposed to work old mines which had been deserted, prospect for new ones, deal in goods, purchase gold dust, and finally dive for pearls in the famous pearl beds which are found in California"--Wagner, Spanish Southwest 156. Medina, México, 5427; Palau 228087-III; Streeter sale IV:2439. Not known at auction since Swann sale, 4 February 1982, lot 392.