The Legacy of Christopher Columbus: The Historic Litigations Involving His Discoveries, His Will, His Family, and His Descendants (Two Volumes, complete) [SIGED by author

First Edition, First Printing; 236 clean, unmarked pages; blue c w/gilt spine titles; 30 sepia plates of photos & documents, followed by sevenfold-out plates of family trees, in a pocket at the rear of vol. 2; Author's signature in on a card tipped in to the front of volume 1. 349+320 clean, unmarked pages.the study three centuries of lawsuits (Pleitos Colombinos) that followed Columbus's discoveries, focusing on his family's fight with the Spanish Crown and among themselves for the promised rewards, titles, and wealth, covering his will, inheritance disputes, family schisms, and even foreign interference, compiled from archives in Spain, France, and the Americas. It's a scholarly study of legal struggles over land, titles (like Viceroy and Admiral), and fortunes promised in his 1492 contract, involving his descendants for over ten generations, revealing the complex legal and estate issues of the time.