To mark the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Commission of General Statistics of the Kingdom, the INE has recovered three historical issues: the Statistical Yearbook of Spain from 1858, the first to be published; the Elementary Treaty of Statistics, by the teacher José María Ibáñez, dated 1844, and issue 1 of the General Statistics Magazine, of March 1862, which may be regarded as a forerunner to the present-day magazine, Spanish Statistics.