BROSSARD (Alfred de). Lot n° 6

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE REPUBLICS OF LA PLATA in their relations with France and England. Paris, Guillaumin, 1850, in-8, green half-basin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, speckled edges [Rel. of the period]. 2 ff. n. ch., 472 pp. Sabin 8387. First edition. The author was attached to the extraordinary mission of France in the Plata in 1847; he gives an excellent historical and contemporary overview of the difficulties of European powers with the successor states of Spain in the Rio de la Plata.