MEXICAN COPPER PRICES

[Mexico. Copper prices] Don Miguel Joseph de Azanza, Caballero de la Orden de Santiago, del Consejo de Estado de S.M. Virey Gobernador y Capitan general de esta Nueva España y Presidente de su Real Audiencia &c. &c. Begins "Para proporcionar á los dueños de la Minas de Cobre auxîlios y ventajas capaces de alentarlos á que se dediquen con mas constancia y empeño a laborío de éllas". [printed Mexico City, after 19 July 1799].

Broadside decree setting prices that the government would pay for copper from: Santa Clara (Michoacán), Veracruz, Valladolid (Yucatán), Nuevo Santander, Perote, Somelahuacan, Matehuala, Sayula, and San Luis Potosí. There are provisos about the form and purity of the metal. Miguel José de Azanza (1746-1826) was viceroy of New Spain from 1798 to 1800.

Description

Broadside, 300 mm x 430 mm., title, 35 lines of text, printed sign-offs. Foxing, fold-lines (tear to horizontal fold-line at left-hand margin (blank)).

Provenance etc.: inscription to verso "Balen los clabos [?]G [?]Srr".

Bibliography

Not located in OCLC (a digitised item from 1799 concerning copper mines is shown not to be this). Not located in Medina, La Imprenta en Mexico.