Lot 113
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MERCADO, Tomas de (c.1525-c.1575). Tratos y contratos de mercaderes y tratantes discididos y determinados. Salamanca: Mathia Gast, 1569. 4° (195 x 135mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, D and H 3.4 and 5.6 reversed in binding. (Without final blank, some browning, staining and spotting, extreme fore-margins of first and last few quires renewed, some repairs, mostly marginal but affecting some headlines, occasional small wormhole affecting a few letters.) Brown morocco by Miralles tooled in gilt and blind to a mudejar design, watered silk doublures, gilt edges. Provenance: early inscription on title -- purcahsed from José Porter, 1957.
MERCADO, Tomas de (c.1525-c.1575). Tratos y contratos de mercaderes y tratantes discididos y determinados. Salamanca: Mathia Gast, 1569. 4° (195 x 135mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, D and H 3.4 and 5.6 reversed in binding. (Without final blank, some browning, staining and spotting, extreme fore-margins of first and last few quires renewed, some repairs, mostly marginal but affecting some headlines, occasional small wormhole affecting a few letters.) Brown morocco by Miralles tooled in gilt and blind to a mudejar design, watered silk doublures, gilt edges. Provenance: early inscription on title -- purcahsed from José Porter, 1957.

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MERCADO, Tomas de (c.1525-c.1575). Tratos y contratos de mercaderes y tratantes discididos y determinados. Salamanca: Mathia Gast, 1569. 4° (195 x 135mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, D and H 3.4 and 5.6 reversed in binding. (Without final blank, some browning, staining and spotting, extreme fore-margins of first and last few quires renewed, some repairs, mostly marginal but affecting some headlines, occasional small wormhole affecting a few letters.) Brown morocco by Miralles tooled in gilt and blind to a mudejar design, watered silk doublures, gilt edges. Provenance: early inscription on title -- purcahsed from José Porter, 1957.

FIRST EDITION of a treatise on trade and commerce, written for businessmen and scholars, including those trading with the Spanish-American colonies. It treats of commercial contracts, gives useful information about trade fairs in Burgos and Medina del Campo, and discusses the African slave trade, specifically the treatment of slaves in Cape Verde. Alden European Americana, 569.33; Kress 105 (1571 ed.); Salvá II, 3703; Palau IX, 165051; not in Goldsmiths'.

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