Por don Fernando de la Riba-Aguero, cauallero de la Orden de Santiago, gouernador que fue de Cartagena y Puerto-Rico. : En la causa con el señor fiscal del Consejo Real de las Indias.

Riva Agüero y Setién, Fernando de la, 1606-1663 · 1651 · [Madrid?] : [publisher not identified] · 1 picture

This is a 1651 legal defence printed in Spanish, presumably Madrid, by or for Fernando de la Riba-Agüero, a former governor of Cartagena and Puerto Rico, answering a case brought before the Council of the Indies on embezzlement charges. The single woodcut shows a haloed Virgin in a flowing mantle standing on a crescent moon amid clouds and rays, flanked by a small chapel, a tower, a tree and a fountain, a compact devotional emblem with strong black contrast that a designer could take for bold frontispiece-style framing.

Riva Agüero y Setién, Fernando de la, 1606-1663 · Aguilera y Gamboa, Diego de, 1606-1662 or 1667 · Embezzlement -- Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico -- Politics and government · Imprint 1651

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