Pencil and watercolor drawings of precolumbian pottery from Peru, Mexico, and New Granada. The illustrations of Peruvian pottery are the most numerous and depict pieces from the collection of Leonce Angrand, preserved at the Museum of Louvre, in Paris, and other private collections.
Contains numerous copies of royal, viceregal and Royal Audiencia decrees on tribute, labor, administration of justice, and indoctrination of Indians; and civil and ecclesiastical administration and economy of the Peruvian viceroyalty.
Book of the confraternity founded at the church of San Pedro and Pablo in Lima. Contains the rules of the confraternity, lists of its members, agreements, and a calendar of religious festivities. The title page is decorated with a watercolor drawing which depicts an allegorical religious scene.
Printed report on the grievances made by corregidores and rural priests against Indians in the viceroyalty of Peru. Signed by Vicente Mora Chimo, representative of the Indians of Peru.
Contains several texts on natural resources, particularly botanical, in the Peruvian viceroyalty. Some of the texts have authorship. The volume includes "Dase noticia de las riquezas que encierra en sà los reynos del Perú...;" "Riquezas de oro, plata y otras varias de la provincia de Quito;" "Noticias varias sobre las quinas oficinales, sus especies, virtudes, usos, comercio, acopios y su descripción botánica" by José Ignacio Pombo (this text is illustrated with watercolor drawings of the quina plant); "Plantas del Perú por sus nombres vulgares determinados a géneros botánicos;" "Noticias que da de esta ciudad de San Luis de Loyola y su jurisdicción don Juan de Videla;" and "Virtudes de las plantas del Perú" by MartÃn Melgar.
An extensive and detailed report on the administration of the Duke of La Palata, who was viceroy of Peru in the second half of the seventeenth century. Includes information on ecclesiastical, economic, cultural, military and political affairs.
