Lucio V. Mansilla - Una excursión a los indios ranqueles - 1877

Major bibliophilic rarity for collectors of Latin American history and literature. This is the highly sought-after European first edition of the absolute masterpiece of Argentine literature: Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, written by the colonel, diplomat and writer Lucio V. Mansilla (1831-1913).
Edition details:
Publisher: Published in Leipzig (Germany) by the famous publishing house F. A. Brockhaus.
Year: 1877.
Content: Complete Volumes One and Two combined into a single substantial volume of this prestigious edition. The work notes the prestigious distinction awarded at the International Geographical Congress in Paris in 1875.
Importance of the work:
This expedition narrative into the heart of the territory of the Ranquel Indigenous people of the Argentine Pampas (conducted in 1870 to negotiate a peace treaty) is considered one of the most fundamental anthropological and literary texts of the 19th century in South America.
Binding and condition:
The work is magnificently preserved in an elegant period half-calf binding (veal/bovine leather), with a spine of raised bands richly ornamented with gilt fillets and with red morocco and bright blue title pieces for striking effect. Marbled edges matched to the inner guards. Interior in superb freshness, paper with a lovely whiteness and only very rare and discreet light foxing scattered about. A prized piece for a cabinet of curiosities or a library of rare books.