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Excerpt from The Lowery Collection: A Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions Within the Present Limits of the United States, 1502-1820 In the Report of the Librarian of Congress, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, is this extract from the will of Woodbury Lowery: The late Woodbury Lowery, of Washington, D.C., scholarly investigator and historian of the early Spanish settlements in this hemisphere, died in Sicily, April 11, 1906, leaving in his will, dated the 5 th of July, 1904, the following important bequest: "I give, devise, and bequeath unto the Library of Congress, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, my collection of Manuscripts, to wit: "Eighteen(18) volumes (including the Indexes) of Copies of Manuscripts relating to Florida, New Mexico, California, etc., bound with white parchment backs; Two(2) volumes of original Manuscripts entitled': (l)Manuscriptos historicos; (2) 'Visitas de Presidios por Rubi etc.' "The anonymous original manuscript entitled: 'Descripcion Historica, Cronologica, etc., de la Florida.' "My manuscript entitled: 'A Preliminary List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions within the present Limits of the United States.' "I also give, devise and bequeath unto the same the following printed books and maps, to wit: "(1) 'Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en la Lengua Castellana yMexicana, ' printed in Mexico in 1555; (2)The Biblia Mariana; (3)'II Principe' of Machiavelli, printed at Venice, 1550; (4)my collection of maps, with the condition that it be preserved intact and be known as the Lowery Collection of Maps relating to the Spanish possessions within the present limits of the United States. I also give, devise, and bequeath unto the same the photographic negatives of manuscript maps contained in two boxes marked Negatives of manuscript maps. I also direct that the Librarian of Congress be allowed to select for the Library of Congress, from among the following books in my library, such works as may not at the time be in the possession of the Library of Congress, to wit: "(1) Books relating to the history of Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, and Mexico;(2) books on palmistry;(3) books on Jewish history;(4) my Spanish booka generally." In the Librarians report for 1908 Mr. Worthington C. Ford, at that time Chief of the Manuscript Division, pays a willing tribute to the testator and to that portion of the bequest of concern to his Division, as follows: About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.