Instruccion para la obseruacion del eclypse de la luna, y cantidad de las sombras
Subtitle: que su Magestad manda hazer el año de mil y quinientos y ochenta y dos en las ciudades y pueblos de españoles de las Indias: para verificar la longitud, y altura dellos, que aunque pudiera auer otros medios mathematicos para ello, se an elegido por mas faciles los que se siguen
Contributors: Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1581
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa
Subjects: Observations; Broadsides; Administration; Colonies; Astronomy; Lunar eclipses
Other titles: Instruccion para la observacion del eclypse de la luna, y cantidad de las sombras.
Notes: Caption title.

Place and date of publication of Madrid, 1582 suggested by Medina and by the JCB Short-title catalogue.

Date of publication was probably not after October, 1581, as the lunar eclipse occurred in January 1582, and the sending of this instruction from Spain would have taken approximately three months to arrive.

Royal decree issued by Philip II on how to observe and record the lunar eclipse of 1582 in the Spanish colonies.

Woodcut initial.

Cf. Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 120120.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 246.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, short-title list of additions, books printed 1471-1700, 14.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of the JCB Associates.