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Creator:
Serra y Canals, Francisco
Published / Created:
1806
Call Number:
MS 1775
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 12 | reel 14U
Image Count:
8
Description:
[Original?] Handwritten volume dealing with the practices of the silver mining industry, written in the form of a dialogue. The book contains eight plates documenting the techniques and machinery used in the production of silver.
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Andean collection (MS 1775) > Part II > Bolivia > "Tratado del beneficio de metales de plata por amalgamación según se practica en América."
Published / Created:
1884 May 8
Call Number:
MS 1779
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 20 | reel 1U
Image Count:
1
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Central America collection (MS 1779) > Original accession > Guatemala > Author: Barrios, Justo Rufino. Title: Letter to General I. McDowell. Description: Handwritten letter on official stationery in which President Barrios invites McDowell to visit Guatemala. Barrios also briefly discusses a plot against his life. Includes a typed English summary.
Published / Created:
1522-1915
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 35, folder 26, reel 1 | reel 1U
Image Count:
19
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part II. I: Chronological > Author: Martínez, Enrico. Title: Rueda boladera. Place: [Mexico City?] Description: Manuscript describing the workings and construction of a type of mule powered wheel known as the "boladera" for use in sugar processing, wheat refining, and pumping water. The text contains several diagrams of a boladera and its component parts. [16--?]
Published / Created:
1529-1907
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 14, folder 148, reel 14 | reel 14U
Image Count:
1
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Nava, Joséph. Title: "Mapa y tabla geográfica de leguas comunes que ai de unos a otros lugares y ciudades principales de la América Septentrional." Place: Puebla. Description: Printed sheet containing a map of the Mexican Viceroyalty, a table with distances among the principal cities of its territory, and an allegorical representation of Mexico City. The engraver's initials and the date of the printed sheet are on the lower right-hand corner. 1755 Dec
Published / Created:
1529-1907
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 29, folder 513, reel 27 | reel 27U
Image Count:
1
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Rincón, Manuel. Title: "Demostración del sitio nombrado La Palmilla." Place: Mexico. Description: Two texts: a report and a sonet. The report, by Manuel Rincón, dated in Xalapa on 2 July 1816, concerns La Palmilla, a small fort occupied by rebel troops in Veracruz. Addressed to Commander Xavier Llamas, the report describes La Palmilla, includes a watercolor drawing of it, and proposes a military attack on it. The second text is an untitled sonnet, by an unknown author, dedicated to José Nicolás Maniau, for his election as lectoral canon. On the back cover there is a handwritten note by Joaquín García Icazbalceta stating that the only Rincón signature known to him is the one included in the report. 1816
Published / Created:
1529-1907
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 29, folder 512, reel 27 | reel 27U
Image Count:
2
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Río Fernández, Andrés Manuel del. Titulo: Texts on mineralogy. Place: Mexico? Description: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández was a prominent Spanish scientist. Between 1792 and 1849, del Río was professor of chemistry at the Real Seminario of Mexico City and explored mines in the Mexican territory. This volume contains three of his works: "Arte de minas" (1 May 1816); "Tratado de vetas...para uso de Mariano Goyzueta (n.d.);" and "Tratado de geometría subterránea (n.d.)." The texts, probably handwritten by the author, deal with the construction of mines and the exploration for minerals. Includes drawings. 1816
Creator:
Cañete Domínguez, Pedro Vicente
Published / Created:
1787
Call Number:
MS 1775
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 169
Image Count:
1
Description:
Account of the history, mining production and industry, geography and economy of Potosi.
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Andean collection (MS 1775) > Part I > Peru > Guía histórico, geográfico, físico, político, civil, legal del govierno e yntendencia de la provincia de Potosí."
Published / Created:
1529-1907
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 15, folder 149, reel 15 | reel 15U
Image Count:
7
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Veytia, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y. Title: "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la América Septentrional, que llaman la Nueva España, con noticia de los primeros que establecieron la monarquía, que en ella floreció de la nación tolteca y noticias que alcanzaron de la creación del mundo." Place: Mexico. Description: A member of the Royal Audiencia of Mexico and historian, Mariano Fernández was a prominent scholar of Mexican pre-Columbian history in the second half of the eighteenth century. This work constitutes an extensive account of the political, religious and economic organization of the peoples who inhabited Mexico before the Spanish conquest. Contains six watercolor drawings of the toltec calendar, based on Lorenzo Boturini's texts. This is a copy of Veytia's manuscript, apparently made in the early nineteenth-century, from the original written in 1755. [18--?] > Libro 1
Published / Created:
1529-1907
Call Number:
MS 1776
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 171, reel 16 | reel 16U
Image Count:
2
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Title: "Aranzel para todos los curas de este arzobispado, fuera de la ciudad de México." Place: Mexico City. Description: Two copies, printed and handwritten, of the fee schedule, issued by the Archbishop of Mexico Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana, for the services of parish priests in the Mexican archbishopric. 1767 Jul 30
Published / Created:
1773
Call Number:
MS 1779
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 13 | reel 1U
Image Count:
1
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives > Central America collection (MS 1779) > Original accession > Guatemala > Title: "Copia de carta de mi primo Dn. Manuel Fernandez de Villanueva y Armiño, oydor de la Real Audiencia." Description: Copies of two personal letters from Manuel Fernandez de Villanueva to an unidentified cousin. The letters discuss the earthquake that destroyed Santiago de Guatemala and its aftermath.
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