La Batalla de Ingavi.

Recuerdos Históricos. Second Edition, Corrected & Enlarged. Small 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and four other portraits, folding map at the rear, short tear without loss. Bolivian bookseller's ink stamp to the half-title, occasional light soiling to the text, one leaf re-attached to a stub, another with paper patched repair, but overall a very good copy in a contemporary green quarter leather binding, slightly rubbed at the extremities, spine sunned. xxxii, 334pp. index leaf. Escuela Tipográfica Salesiana Premiada, La Paz,

Battle which in 1841 ended Peruvian attempts to expand into Bolivian territory. The Peruvian President Agustín Gamarra's 5,400 strong Army was defeated by the weaker Bolivian force under Josíé Ballivián, and Gamarra himself was killed.

Stock Code: 89454