The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Pedro Murillo Velarde’s Historia de la provincia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749); from copy possessed by Edward E. Ayer, Chicago Frontispiece
Map of Mindanao, showing Spanish settlements, and districts occupied by the Jesuits and Recollects; photographic facsimile from original MS. (dated 1683) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 51
Plan of the palace, Audiencia hall, and exchequer of Manila; photographic facsimile from original MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 153
Plan of fortifications at Zamboanga, 1719; photographic facsimile of original manuscript map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 163

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