355

Sagues Ibero: El Oro y la Plata de las Indias en la Epoca de los Austrias

Currency:USD Category:Books / Nonfiction Books Start Price:35.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
Sagues Ibero: El Oro y la Plata de las Indias en la Epoca de los Austrias
Sale order:

SESSION 1:

Books: 1 to 467
Auction Catalogs & Dealer Fixed Pricelists: 468 to 734

SESSION 2:

Auction Catalogs & Dealer Fixed Pricelists: 735 to 1267
Journals & Magazines: 1268 to 1345
Posters: 1346
Newspapers: Lot 1347
Photos: 1348 to 1349
Postcards: 1350 to 1351
VHS Tapes: 1352 to 1354
DVDs: 1355

To bid in this sale, you must agree to our terms
Sagues Ibero, Isabel (Dir.). EL ORO Y LA PLATA DE LAS INDIAS EN LA EPOCA DE LOS AUSTRIAS. Fundacion ICO, Madrid. 1999. Large 4to. 797, (1) pages. Original oversized pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalog. b&w and color historical, print, painting, map, document, antiquities and coin photos throughout. Near Fine. This well illustrated book serves as the catalog of an extraordinary exhibit that commemorates the fifth centenary of the discovery of the New World by the Spanish. The exhibition, 'The Gold and Silver of the Indies in the time of the Habsburgs', was financed by the ICO Foundation and held at the Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid. La Villa y Corte, which irradiated in the New World all the vicissitudes of politics, science, arts and religion that were common here, is a propitious place to welcome the work of forty specialists who have studied in detail the cycle that begins with samples of pre-Columbian works in gold and silver and extends to the testimony of the influence exerted by gold and silver from America on the development of the arts, the economy and finances during the 16th and 17th centuries. Throughout the 2,000 square meters that the exhibition occupies, visiters can see paintings, prints, cartography, plans of cities, ports and fortifications, jewelry, coins, shipwrecks, construction models, ships, etc. Although the memory of the colonizing feat carried out by the Spanish and the development of mining is extremely attractive, it is no less attractive to recall the difficult problems of transport, with the added risk of storms, piracy and the arrival of silver in Seville, first, and later to Cadiz. And, along with these historical milestones, the role of Madrid as the capital of an Empire where the sun did not set, the residence of the Court and the cultural and political capital of the entire world. Lot weight: 9 lbs 0oz. Subject(s): Spanish American Coinage.