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- Creator:
- Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1970
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of...
- Description:
- Louis C. Hubert, called Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac, was an espionage agent for Louis XVIII, and submitted secret diplomatic reports to Elie Decazes while living in London. He published a work entitled L'europe et ses colonies en decembre 1819, con...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., France., Arctic regions, Northwest Passage, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, America, United States, France, and South America
- Subject (Name):
- Buchan, Captain., Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821., and Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Espionage, Spies, Discovery and exploration, British, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Colonies, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac reports, 1817-1819
3.
- Published / Created:
- 1537 February 27.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 616
- Container / Volume:
- (Box)
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Land grant, manuscript on parchment, originally made to Alonzo Prieto, and awarded after his death to his brother Gonzalo Prieto, following litigation. The grant, valued at 35,000 maravedis annually, was given to defray the costs of preparing land and...
- Description:
- In Spanish.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain, Jerez de la Frontera., Connecticut, New Haven., Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), and America
- Subject (Name):
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
- Subject (Topic):
- Land grants, Land titles, Manuscripts, Medieval, Colonies, History, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Land grant made by Emperor Don Carlos I to Gonzalo Prieto in Jerez de la Frontera
4.
- Creator:
- Ross, Andrew, 1773-1812
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 108
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 11
- Abstract:
- Letters, manuscripts and printed documents relating to the life and career of Andrew Ross. Three letters to him dating from 1808 are connected to his appointment as governor of Essequebo and Demerara. An 1808 letter from the Governor of Puerto Rico, T...
- Description:
- Andrew Ross (1773-1812), Army officer who suppressed the 1802 mutiny of several regiments at Gibraltar; probably appointed Governor of Essequibo and Demerara in 1807 or 1808. He retired to Madeira for his health in 1809, but returned to service in the...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Caribbean Area., Spain., Caribbean Area, Cartagena (Spain), Demerara, Essequibo, Guyana, Great Britain, America., Spain, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Copons y Navia, Francisco de, 1770-1842., Inciarte, José Felipe., Montes, Toribio de., and Ross, Andrew, 1773-1812.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Peninsular War, 1807-1814, History, Colonies, Administration, and Foreign relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters and documents relating to Andrew Ross, 1791-1829
5.
- Creator:
- Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
- Published / Created:
- Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
- Call Number:
- Taylor 214
- Image Count:
- 16
- Alternative Title:
- Brevissima relacion. Latin, Narratio regionvm Indicarvm per Hispanos qvosdam deuastatarum verissima, Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima, and Crudelitates Hispanorum in Indiis patratae
- Description:
- Signatures: )(⁴ A-S⁴ (S4 blank).
- Publisher:
- Sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain and America
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians, Treatment of, Indians of South America, Colonies, Discovery and exploration, and Spanish
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598
6.
- Creator:
- Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
- Published / Created:
- 1656.
- Call Number:
- C72 67b
- Image Count:
- 192
- Alternative Title:
- Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. English
- Description:
- BEIN C72 67b: The plates (bound to face p. 6, 9, 17, 52) are duplicates of the four compartments of the frontispiece. Imperfect: frontispiece mutilated. Brook's catalogue ([6] p., signature [?]4) inserted after p. 134.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.C. for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhil
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain and America.
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians, Treatment of. and Colonies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The tears of the Indians : being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people; committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. As also in the continent of Mexico, Peru, & other places of the West-Indies, to the total destruction of those countries