Book #65768
Item #65768 Monte Pio de Corregidores y Alcaldes Mayores que nombra SM. Spain, Loans, Pensions.
Monte Pio de Corregidores y Alcaldes Mayores que nombra SM...

Monte Pio de Corregidores y Alcaldes Mayores que nombra SM...

Eighteenth-Century Spanish Regulations Concerning Loans to Government Officials [Spain]. [Loans]. [Pensions]. Monte Pio de Corregidores y Alcaldes Mayores que nombra S.M. Inclusos los del Territorio de las Ordenes Militares. Madrid: En la Imprenta de Don Benio Cano, 1790. 467 pp. Folio (11-3/4" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary tree sheep, gilt fillets to boards, gilt fillets and ornaments to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, marbled endpaper, detached ribbon marker laid in. Some minor nicks to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped. Very light toning to text, faint dampstaining to a few leaves, a few minor worn holes. A handsome copy. $750. * Only edition. A collection of legislation establishing a system of low-interest loans for aldermen, mayors and the governors of military districts in Spain (and New Spain). This legislation has its roots in the "Mounts of Piety," a system of pawnbrokers run as a charity by the Catholic Church in Europe in the Late Middle Ages to offer low-interest loans to the needy. The regulations in the present volume offered low-interest loans from the state treasury secured against amounts intended to fund the borrower's pension. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America (Duke University). Palau, Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano 177.666.

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