Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CAMPILLO Y COSIO, JOSEPH DEL. Nuevo Sistema de Gobierno Economico para la America. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; minor foxing; faint embossed library stamp on title page, release stamp on free endpaper, bookplates of Luis Montt and Alberto Parreño. Madrid, 1789
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first edition. "A master plan to revive the economy of the empire. . . . Nowhere in Spanish thought were the arguments for trade with independent Indians articulated more clearly"--Weber, Bárbaros, 181. "Written in 1748, but never printed until 1789, probably on account of the unpleasant truths it contains relating to the treatment of the unfortunate Indians"--Sabin 10314. Palau 41265. No other copy noted at auction; WorldCat lists two copies, both in Germany.