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SOLIS (Duarte Gomes). ALEGACION en Favor de la Compañia de la India Oriental, Comercios Ultramarinos, que de Nuevo se Instituyó en el Reyno de Portugal. Lisboa. 1955. - SOLIS (Duarte Gomes) ALEGACION en Favor de la Compañia de la India Oriental, Comercios Ultramarinos, que de Nuevo se Instituyó en el Reyno de Portugal . Edição organizada e prefaciada por Moses Bensabat Amzalak. Tiragem de 175 exemplares. Lisboa: s.n., 1955. 216 pp.; 250 mm. Limited edition of 175 copies of the original work published in Madrid in 1628, with an edition organized and prefaced by Moses Bensabat Amzalak. Duarte Gomes Solis (Lisbon, c. 1562 - Madrid, 1632), a New Christian of Portuguese origin, left for Portuguese India around 1585, where he was factor of the cinnamon contract in Cochin before being exiled in 1592, accused of illicit silver trafficking. Settled in Madrid in the context of the Iberian Union, he dedicated himself to reflecting on the decline of Portuguese overseas trade and to proposals for its reform, also being the author of Discursos sobre los Comercios de las Dos Indias (1622) and Armadas da Carreira da Índia de 1560 a 1590 (1622). The * Alegación en Favor de la Compañia de la India Oriental* , dedicated to the Count-Duke of Olivares, advocates for the creation of a Portuguese trading company with the East Indies, similar to those already established by the Dutch and English, as a response to the growing competition from these powers in the East. The text constitutes one of the most lucid testimonies of 17th-century Portuguese mercantilist thought and a fundamental source for the study of the decline of the Portuguese Asian empire and the debates surrounding its economic reorganization. [Estimated/Dear/Acknowledged/etc.] ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate