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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. 1733. BOOK. (HUMANITIES). PEREZ DE LARA, ALONSO. OPERA OMNIA IN TRES TOMOS DISTRIBUITA. COMPENDIO DE LAS TRES GRACIAS DE LA SANTA CRUZADA, SUBSIDIO Y ESCUSADO... In Lyon, France: Imprenta Deville Hermanos y Chalmette, 1733. Folio. 6 sheets + 151 pp. + 4 sheets [It follows:] COMPENDIUM VITAE HOMINIS IN JURE FORI ET POLI... Lugduni, Q. 4 sheets + 221 pp. + 23 sheets [It follows:] DE ANIVERSARIIS ET CAPELLANIIS LIBRI DUO. Id. 5 sheets + 158 pp. + 18 sheets Each part with its own title page in two colours and with a woodcut. All with beautiful woodcut tops. Fine bookworm line in the inner margin of the last sheets, without affecting the text. Quarter binding with somewhat dirty fabric covers. Palau 221228. First edition of the complete works of this Toledo jurist. CCPB 64052-2.
Important work dealing with the contributions that the King of Spain will collect in all his kingdoms through the Church to make war on the infidels. From page 148 to 214, it contains: Forma de los despachos que de su Majestad, y del Comisario General, se envían a las Provincias de Nueva España, y sus partidos. Guatemala y sus partidos. Santo Domingo e Islas de Barlovento y sus partidos. Filipinas y sus partidos. Provincias de Perú. All the cities of each province are named. In the section for Cuba, it’s mentioned: ‘Para el Governador de la Provincia de la Florida.’ A chapter is dedicated to the installation of a printing press in Toledo.
For their use in defence of the Catholic faith, the Holy See granted the Spanish crown the so-called three graces: bull of crusade, subsidy and exemption. The revenue from them was managed and administered through the Crusade Council.’ (Source: Vialibri.net) 67547175
