Diccionario Historico-Biografico del Peru

Manuel de Mendiburu

Lima : J.F. Solis, 1874

8 volumes. : portrait ; 22 cm. Bound in contemporary 1/4 leather over speckled paste boards.  Three of the volumes lacking some or all of the spine leather. Vol. one's joint split. Unmarked with scattered  spotting and foxing to edges.  V. 4 has a damp stain to the rear most pages, but still in good shape. "An indispensable book of reference for students of the history of Peru under Spanish rule. In addition to biographies of all the political, judicial and other important personalities connected with that period, there are copious historical notes and quotations from original documents, indices, etc."  From the library of Ramon A. Laval, noted Chilean writer.  With Laval's book plate, "State Et Tenete Traditiones Quas Dedicistis."