Don Quijote: shipments to America.

Manifest of the vessel 'El Espíritu Santo', its master Cristóbal López, of the fleet of Nueva España: Andrés Hervás, 'two boxes of books to deliver in San Juan de Ulúa to Clemente de Valdés, resident in Mexico'. Amongst them, 'with seventy six books of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, priced 12 reales' (crate num. 9); 'eighty four books of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, priced 12 reales' (crate num. 10). Archivo General de Indias. CONTRATACION,1146A,N.1