Cuevas Aguirre y Espinosa, J.F.

Ordenanzas, y preceptos para medir citios, de Ganados mayores, y menores, y Otras Tierras segun Ordenanzas Reales dispuestas por el Real Acuerdo las mismas que se hallan en el Oficio de Secuestros..., calligraphic manuscript on paper, mostly in red and black, with yellow and blue details and with silver highlights, 14 leaves, of which 2 are folding, text in 2 columns ruled in red and black, title within historiated and decorative frame, other pages with decorative and coloured initial letters, birds, animals, figures, etc.



2 works in one volume, folio (298 x 200mm.), contemporary calf, spine gilt, ex libris M. Porrua, binding marked, lacking most of ties

The first work concerns the draining of the waters of Mexico's lagoon, the most expensive and ambitious project of public works undertaken by the Spanish colonial administration in Latin America.

The second, charmingly illustrated in a colonial hand, is an eighteenth-century copy of the Ordenanzas y preceptos hechos por los Oidores y Cabildo de la real Audiencia de México, confirmed by Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of Nueva Espana (1535-1550), which were proclaimed on 4 July 1536, and subsequently confirmed and extended on 9 September 1577. The Ordenanzas deal with the establishment of farming in Latin America. The text is apparently unpublished.