REGLAMENTO PROVISIONAL DE CORSO. A PROVISIONAL ORDINANCE TO REGULATE PRIVATEERING.
[Argentina]:
[Buenos Aires. 1817]. 73pp. Mid-19th-century vellum over boards, contemporary blue paper wrappers bound in. Covers and spine moderately worn, with some vellum lacking. Foxed throughout. A half dozen leaves with small tears at inner margins, not affecting text. A good copy. An extremely rare set of ordinances, printed in parallel Spanish and English translations, issued by the United Provinces of la Plata during the wars of independence against Spain. This is one of the very few early Argentinean imprints with English text. The regulations were intended to control the activities of privateers from various countries who sailed for the United Provinces "against the subjects of Ferdinand VII, and their properties." The provisional ordinance, issued on May 15, 1817 and signed by Supreme Director of the provinces Juan Martín de Pueyrredón and Secretary of War and the Navy Matías de Yrigoyen, consists of forty-six articles detailing legal and unlawful actions. The work includes additional bilingual sections devoted to "Penal laws extending to the officers of the Navy" and "Penal laws for the ordinary crimes of seamen & marines on board the vessels." Extremely rare, OCLC locates a single copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. An additional copy is located at the Bancroft Library. PALAU 255378. OCLC 55244635.
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