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- ↑ Boletín, Volume 28, Part 1, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1944
- ↑ Historia de la ciudad de Buenos Aires: 1719-1800, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Secretaría de Cultura, 1980
- ↑ Historia social y cultural del Río de la Plata, 1536-1810, Guillermo Fúrlong Cárdiff, 1969
- ↑ Todo es historia, Issues 86-91, Honegger., 1974, 1974
- ↑ Los planos más antiguos de Buenos Aires, 1580-1880, Alfredo Taullard, 1940