[Aviendo entendido la materia que se controvierte sobre si se deben fortificar la boca del Rio de la ensenada del Dariel, y el desembarcadero del Playon en el parage de los Cayos de las Cabeças, para estorvar à los Piratas el poder passar à las Costas del Perù ...]
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1694
Place of publication: [Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Spain. Sovereign (1665-1700 : Charles II); Buccaneers -- Early works to 1800; Pirates -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800; Naval art and science -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800; West Indies -- Early works to 1800; Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Early works to 1800; Spain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800; Spain -- Colonies -- Defenses -- Early works to 1800; Spain -- Politics and government -- 1665-1700
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: A viendo entendido la materia que se controvierte ...; Habiendo entendido la materia que controvierte sobre si se deben fortificar la boca del río de la ensenada del Darién, y el desembarcadero del playón en el paraje de los cayos de las Cabezas, para estorbar a los piratas el poder pasar a las costas del Perú ...; Forma de assegurar los puertos y poblaciones de todas las costas de las Indias; Aviendo prevenido en el papel antecedente la mejor forma de assegurar los puertos y poblaciones de todas las costas de las Indias; Facturias que dichas naciones tienen en las islas de Barlobento son como se sigue
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Recommendations, apparently addressed to King Charles II of Spain, on fortifying Spanish ports in the West Indies against pirates. Discusses the geography, demography and navigation of the coastal West Indies as well as piracy and European claims there from 1655 through the following roughly "forty years."
Title from first line of text.
Signatures: A⁴ 2A-B⁴.
Printed iron cross at head of text on first page of each of first two gatherings.
Decorative wood-block initial begins text on p. [1] of second gathering.
Typeface and woodcut initial strongly resemble those in Francisco de Ayeta's Crisol de la verdad, published in Madrid in 1693 or 1694. (Cf. Bibliotheca Americana: Cat. of the John Carter Brown Library, under the year 1693; Palau y Dulcet, 20802; Medina, Biblioteca hispano-americana, 1493-1810, item 6240.) The paper in the two books also appears similar, and the chain lines and watermarks appear to match.
Could not identify author or title in Palau y Dulcet, any of the Medina chronological lists of imprints, nor in the Guide to Latin American pamphlets from the Yale University Library, selections from 1600-1900.
LC copy has inscription on first page: 1694, D. Seb[astia]n Roteta. The year 1694 appears twice more in ms., in an inscription on p. [1] of second gathering and at end of text.
LC copy in modern binding. Has bookplate: Wichita City Library, Driscoll Piracy Collection.