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Junta de Autoridades. Acta general de la Junta de autoridades, funcionarios públicos, prelados eclesiásticos, gefes militares y diputaciones de las corporaciones en que se aclamó Presidente Perpetuo de la República de Guatemala al Excmo. Señor Capitán General, Don Rafael Carrera.
In folio. 1 sheet. Broadside (53,5 cm. x 58 cm.) (21 x 30 ¾ inches). Declaration followed by list of authorities within elaborate border.
THE LARGER (BY NEARLY FOUR TIMES) AND MORE ELABORATED OF TWO VERSIONS OF THIS BROADSIDE PROCLAIMING RAFAEL CARRERA AS PRESIDENT FOR LIFE.
José Rafael Carrera Turcios (1814 -1865) was the President of Guatemala in two distinct periods: 1844 to 1848, when his policies attempted to balance liberal aspirations against the conservative elite and from 1851 to 1865, during which period he was president for life, when he closely allied himself with the conservative establishment, the church hierarchy and the rich landowners. As the most influential politician in Guatemala, with virtually… Read More

Magnificent Work of Engineering to Improve the Irrigation System in Spain * Remarkable Illustrations
Folio; [42] leaves of plates (40 folded) maps, plans, portrait. (King and Queen of Spain); contemporary Spanish calf.
FIRST EDITION. This Aragonese "pharaonic work" was developed in the last third of the 18th century between Fontellas, near Tudela (Navarra, Spain), and Zaragoza. This new system improved the way of watering that until then gave its predecessor, the old "Imperial Acequiade Aragon"; this system brought the water from the Ebro to Zaragoza, which made it possible to considerably extend irrigation in the city, and established a passenger and freight transport service between Tudela and Zaragoza. It was projected as far as Sástago, in order to irrigate a wide area between Zaragoza and this town and, above all, to have a channel that would allow navigating the Ebro along its entire length, avoiding the difficult middle course, but this utopian plan never became reality.
*Palau 302758;… Read More