[Rarebooks] FS: Sarmiento, Life in the Argentine Republic
Kaaterskill Books
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Tue Aug 4 11:47:40 EDT 2009
We offer for Sale:
Sarmiento, Domingo F. [Faustino]. LIFE IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN
THE DAYS OF THE TYRANTS; OR, CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM. Mrs. Horace
[Mary] Mann, preface. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868.
frontis, xxxv, 400 pp. + [adv] 24 pp. 12mo. Modern blue cloth with
gilt title (hardback). Palau 302204 (American). Sabin 77078. Larned
4088. First English edition. From the third Spanish edition.
"Written in the style of historical fiction so popular with the
Spanish-American public, by one of the most intelligent and
well-informed among the leaders in Argentine affairs during his
generation. The book seems to give a very fair idea of the period of
the Tyrants," (Larned p. 458).
A very good+ copy, some light soiling, in a fine cloth binding.
[35000] $450.00
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