Spanish Fleets

grossmusic

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I detect the history: I've visited archives up & down the entire US East Coast, Bahamas, Jamaica, Kew, The Hague, etc. Have yet to go to Seville or S.American archives.
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Using the same method of Chaunus (information with Statistics), various Spanish authors have published important work. These are:
Lutgardo Garcia: El comercio español con America (The Spanish trade with America) (1650-1700).
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Any chance this book is translated to English? Or available (any language is better than none) for download/purchase? I don't speak Spanish, but that's never stopped me from trying to google translate the gist of things.

I need the years from 1680s–1690s related to the Manila treasure ships. (Not just wrecks.)

Thanks for all the great info here!
 

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Any chance this book is translated to English? Or available (any language is better than none) for download/purchase? I don't speak Spanish, but that's never stopped me from trying to google translate the gist of things.

I need the years from 1680s–1690s related to the Manila treasure ships. (Not just wrecks.)

Thanks for all the great info here!

I don't know if you are going to find a download...it may even be tough to find a hard copy for sale, but if you happen to drift up into Georgia for any reason, the library at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro has a copy of El Comercio Espanol con America. You could scan the pages and then convert the scanned images into something like a PDF file which you could then translate digitally.

I would call the library and get them to hold the item before you took a road trip, though. Sometimes obscure books have a way of disappearing from a library's inventory...
 

grossmusic

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I detect the history: I've visited archives up & down the entire US East Coast, Bahamas, Jamaica, Kew, The Hague, etc. Have yet to go to Seville or S.American archives.
Primary Interest:
Shipwrecks
You could scan the pages and then convert the scanned images into something like a PDF file which you could then translate digitally.

Thanx! I'm the queen of scanning to PDF!
 

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I don't know if you are going to find a download...it may even be tough to find a hard copy for sale, but if you happen to drift up into Georgia for any reason, the library at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro has a copy of El Comercio Espanol con America. You could scan the pages and then convert the scanned images into something like a PDF file which you could then translate digitally.

I would call the library and get them to hold the item before you took a road trip, though. Sometimes obscure books have a way of disappearing from a library's inventory...

Prof's like to squirrel them away; good luck even finding them then.
 

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