ARGENTINA. - SAN MARTIN (General). - General San Martin. Buenos Aires, Imprenta del Commercio del Plata, 1863. In-folio, green half-chagrin, spine decorated with golden stars (Binding of the time). Rare publication, printed at the expense of the Argentine government on the occasion of the erection of the statue of General San Martin, the other great liberator of South America with Simon Bolivar. It is decorated with 3 plates: a photographic plate of the statue erected in Buenos Aires on July 13, 1862, a portrait of the Argentine hero, and a chromolithographic plate representing the standard held by Francisco Pizarro during the conquest of Peru. The book includes, among other things, a biography of the general and poems celebrating him. Rubbing to the spine, especially to the headpieces.

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