Jose de Veitia Linage, Norte de la contratacion de las Indias Occidentales (Seville, 1672)

The working manual of the Casa de la Contratacion, written by its treasurer and judge and printed at Seville in 1672: the offices, the courts, the fleets, the duties, the registers, the seamen's corporation. Thirty years later it was translated into English and sold in Cornhill, whose translator opened by denying that Spain kept the Indies trade a secret - his evidence being the book in his hands.