A shipment of broken books (Lima, 1719)

Abstract

This article presents the fraud which occurred to a book merchant based in Lima, when he acquired an important number of book volumes in Mexico City in 1719. It offers a look into book commerce in Lima during the first decades of the 18th century, the profile of a merchant —Gregorio de Carrion— who, among other products, also sold books, and which titles he acquired for his Lima-based business.
The document, with the appraisal of the damaged books, allows us to learn, apart from titles and authors, the prices of these books once they arrived to Lima.