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THE EARLIEST DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS ON AMERICA, THE PAPAL BULLS OF 1493 AND THE TREATY OF TORDESILLAS REPRODUCED AND TRANSLATED.
Gottschalk, Paul
With Historical Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Paul Gottschalk.
172 copies printed of which 150 are for sale. This volume is an examination and translation of the Bulls of Pope Alexander VI issued in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are the earliest documents relating to the diplomatic history of America. With a preface, an historical introduction, an examination of the papal bulls, and a discussion of international and maritime law and colonization. Latin text with English translations. 130 black-and-white plates of documents and registers and maps dispersed throughout. With a bibliographical list and a selected list of maps. Soiling to vellum. Cloth curled away from vellum slightly on front cover, corners bumped with minor wear to extremities.
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THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES.
by Nicholson, W.
"A new edition, corrected." Dedicated to Thomas Watson Wentworth, the Earl of Marchmont, and Geroge Stacpoole. Three volumes in one (England, Scotland and Ireland), originally published separately 1696-9, 1702 and 1716, First published in one volume, 1736 (Watson II, 1612, 1795). "A new edition, corrected." Author William Nicholson (1655-1727) was Bishop of Carlisle. A basic bibliography of sources relating to the history of the British Isles. Indices and appendices. Boards scratched and worn at corners. Ex library copy including bookplate on front pastedown and embossed stamp with library name on the title page. Endpapers torn at edges.
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