[Peru]

D. Jose Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Caballero del Habito de Santiago, Teniente General de los Reales Exercitos...Por Quanto con Carta Acordada del Supremo Consejo de Indias Se Me Ha Remitido el Real Despacho Siguiente... [caption title and first line of text]

Lima: April 24, 1811. Broadside, approximately 17 x 15.75 inches. Printed on two joined sheets. Some worming, affecting a few words of text; larger losses reinforced with tissue on blank verso. Light toning and scattered, small patches of staining. Contemporary manuscript rubric at foot. About very good. Item #3541

A scare, late Spanish colonial broadside, regarding appointments and alterations to administrative councils that had authority over Peru, particularly the Supreme Council of the Indies. The text of this decree, issued by Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa in Lima on April 24, 1811, promulgates orders from the King-in-exile, Ferdinand VII, and the Supreme Central Council that concerned the appointment of new officers and members of the Council of the Indies and several other government positions in the Spanish American colonies. The Supreme Central Council was a body that administered Spanish interests for the King during a six-year period following his abdication forced by Napoleon. OCLC locates one other copy, at the John Carter Brown Library; Medina adds only his own example.
Medina, Lima 2596. Vargas Ugarte 3572.

Price: $475.00