Tratado de Paz

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ID 752789
Lot 22 | Tratado de Paz
Tratado de PazMadrid, 1713TREATY OF UTRECHT – Tratado de Paz ajustado entre las coronas de Espana, y de Inglaterra en Utrech. Tratado de comercio ajustado entre las coronas de Espana, y de Inglaterra en Utrecht. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1713. Spanish edition of the Treaty of Utrecht, bound for the South Seas Company. The result of the long and complicated War of Spanish Succession, these treaties were engineered to restore the balance of power in Europe, but ended up inaugurating Great Britain's maritime supremacy. They granted Britain the right to sell enslaved Africans in New Spain, which Queen Anne contracted to the South Sea Company, for whom this copy was bound. Signed in ink at the conclusion by Diego del MORALES VELASCO, a member of the Council of the Indies. Sabin 96542; Palau 339267 Quarto (197 x 141mm). Woodcut arms and ornament borders on both title pages, woodcut tailpieces (some spotting, signs of previous folds). Contemporary paneled calf gilt-stamped SSC [South Sea Company] (joints split but holding, surfaces abraded). Custom chemise and half-morocco slipcase. Provenance: Daniel Wescomb (d. 1731, secretary to the South Sea Company; signature) – John Landon Sheffield (signature dated 1856) – British Foreign Office (dispersed via the trade in the 1990s). [Bound with:] PHILLP V (1683-1746). Letter signed (with a stamp) to the Lt. General of Portobello, New Granada; El Pardo, 22 June 1714. 3 pages, folded. Notifying the commander of one of the most important ports in the New World about the signing of peace & commerce treaties with England. Countersigned by Diego de MORALES VELASCO.
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