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Twelve-page handwritten document detailing the itinerary of the fortieth Viceroy of Veracruz, as well as the route from Veracruz to Mexico City along the Road of the Viceroys. The document details the distance between locales, overnight stops,…

Comunicado imprimido, de dos páginas, en defensa de Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna. Titulado, Plan Regenerador Del Supremo Gobierno. Circular del Ministerio de Relaciones. El documento concluye con estos sentimientos anónimos: Dios y libertad!…

Legal documents from the Convent of Santo Domingo in Mexico dated from 10 September 1572 to the mid 1620's. These documents touch on various matters associated with the administration of the Convent's property, its boundaries, and even a contract for…

Incomplete record of what appear to be some of Laws of the Spanish Inquisition. Written ca. 1785, this document contains no signature or specific date. The fifth page of this incomplete record mentions the natural children, indicating perhaps a…

Printed broadside by the parish Priest José María del Refugio Guerra y Alva (ordained Bishop of Zacatecas on 29 December 1872) decrying the influx of prohibited books, brought into a the country from the United States. Chief among these banned…

Four hand-written pages describing, in part, the copious number of Bibles introduced into the country by what the author terms as the Bible Societies of London. The author complains that the Bibles are sold as one single book (both Old and New…

Chart includes breakdown of 1807 population of Spain by professional, institutional and academic affiliation, occupation and marital status. Segun el Estado del año 1787 la poblacion de España era de 10.258 150 individuos; el presente manifesta…

Broadside memorializing the anniversary of the assassination of Governor Julián de los Reyes. With engraving of mourners at tomb.

With engraving of mourners at tomb. Description on label of collection folder: Manifiesto en contra de los asesinos del Gobernador de San Luis Potosí. Ocurrida el 8 de enero de 1861 i.e., 1853. Broadside memorializing the anniversary of the…

Map depicting the battle on the hill of Barrabás, near Zirándaro, now in the state of Guerrero. The map shows where Don Vicente Guerrero, Commander in Chief of the Revolutionary troops of the South set up his fortifications from which his troops…

Broadside soliciting citizen participation in the impending fight against the French intervention. With names of 13 congressional signatories: Ambrosio Espinosa, Diputado Presidente; Antonio Portillo; Angel A. Diaz; Francisco Martinez; Miguel…

Manifesto written by Felipe Codallos, Governor of the State of Puebla and directed at the citizens of Puebla. Governador Codallos informs the citizens of his state about the actions of Rear Admiral Charles Baudin during the Pastry Wars wherein…

Signed Los amantes de equidad. Ornate print in title lettering. 1851 broadside reflecting political infighting and attacks.

Broadside-dated 1781 under the Royal Spanish seal. This broadside communicates the orders of the Provisional Viceroy D. Martin de Mayorga, a knight of the Order of Alcantara who became Viceroy upon the death of the previous Viceroy of New Spain,…