Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MEXICAN PRINTING OF THE INFAMOUS ASIENTO (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SPANISH AMERICA.) Assiento ajustado entre las dos magestades catholica y Bretanica sobre encargarse la Compañía de Inglaterra de la Introducción de esclavos negros en la America Española. [2], 29 pages. 4to, disbound; moderate worming, slightly cropped; edges tinted red; inked stamp of historian Felípe Teixidor on page 1. Mexico: María de Rivera, 1734

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A later publication of the infamous Asiento of 1713, which gave Great Britain's South Sea Company the exclusive rights to export enslaved Africans to Spanish America. This edition not in Medina, Mexico or traced at auction; one in OCLC.