Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
DIEZ DE LA CALLE, JUAN. Memorial Informatorio al Rey Nuestro Señor, en su Real y Supremo Consejo de las Indias, Camara, y Junta de Guerra. 4to, contemporary vellum; lacks "Al Lector" leaf following index and second title (leaf A1); signature of early owner Guillermo Godolphin (Sir William Godolphin) on title page. [Madrid], 1645
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"Privately printed for the use of the King and Council . . . A book of the utmost importance to the historian of Spanish America, being a kind of private official handbook or directory of Mexico, Yucatan, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc."--Sabin 10057. No cother opies traced on the market since 1927. European Americana 645/45 (lists only 3 copies in libraries); Medina BHA II:1076; Palau 73741.