et le Gouvernement Dictatorial du Docteur Francia… First edition. Folding map & engraved facsimile. 8vo. Fine contemporary half green morocco. xxxv, 300pp. Paris, 1827.
An extremely attractive copy of the first edition of this classic, which was translated into both German and English. The authors, two Swiss doctors, were held by the despotic Dr. Francia in the early years of his eccentric regime. Their account is the first of post-colonial Paraguay.
