Földvári Books

Administrative History of the Indies, Treatment of the Native Americans

[Council of the Indies / Consejo de Indias]; [Philip IV of Spain] [Pinelo, Antonio de Leon]

Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias. Nuevamente recopiladas, Y por el Rey Don Felipe Quarto N. S. para su govierno establecidas Año de M.D.CXXXVI. [Autos, acuerdos, y decretos de gouierno del Conseio Real y supremo de las Indias.]

Madrid: Por Julian de Paredes, 1681. Second, revised and enlarged edition. In contemporary limp vellum. 206, [14] p. Engraved device on title page. Woodcut initials throughout and a tailpiece at end of each part. Tinted edges. Stains on binding, string missing, panels with small damage at the outer edge. Tinted title on spine, rubbed. 19th-century shelfmark on the inner front panel in ink. Contemporary notes and sings to the margins throughout the first part. Old restoration with paper tape to a few pages in the first part. Otherwise in very good condition.

Revised and enlarged second edition of these substantial bodies of law relating to the New World and the treatment of Native Americans, an important volume on the Administrative History of the Indies.

One of the most important volumes of the administrative history of the Indies, a fundamental collection of laws and ordinances decreed by the Council of the Indies, the supreme governing body of Spain’s colonies in America, during the reign of Philip IV.

The first part, Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias, contains 245 ordinances of the Council of the Indies (pp. 3–112; first published in 1636), the second part, Autos, acuerdos, y decretos de govierno del Conseio Real y supremo de las Indias, embodies an additional 190 ordinances concerning, for the most part, the administration of Spanish America (pp. 113–206, plus 14 p. of index; first published in 1658).

Any editions of these bodies of law are extremely scarce on the market, RHB lists only 2 copies of the present edition within the last 70 years. Sabin 57477.

Price: €15,000.00