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El Tempe Argentino ó El Delta de los Ríos Uruguay, Paraná y Plata. Con la Biografía del autor y un Discurso preliminar por el Dr. D. Alejandro Magariños Cervantes seguido de los Consejos de Oro sobre la Educación. Sexta Edición Corregida y aumentada. Buenos Aires. Imprenta Ostwald. 1881.

Two works in one volume, Quarto (23 x 14.3 cm / 9.05 x 5.63 in), bound with leather spine, ribs, fillets and gilt titles. Copy dedicated by the author to Rafael Hernández, with the wet seal of his belonging. Volume I: Half title, with a dedication, 297 pp., (includes Title page, sheet with signatures and dedications). Volume II: 289 pp., includes Half title and Title page, blank.

Bound with:

Consejos de Oro sobre la Educación dedicados a las Madres de Familia y a los Institutores. Undécima Edición. Buenos Aires. 1881.

26 pp., includes Title page, blank.

The first of the titles gathered in this volume, one of his best books, deals with the Delta, on whose islands M. Sastre lived and developed some of his projects. The first edition was from 1858, and the following year, the new version was expanded, a feature of the author, return to the texts of him and improve them. Here we find it in the sixth edition: corrected and enlarged.

The second text, also applied to his work as an educator, is included among his creations edited for educational purposes, focused on spelling, arithmetic and geography.

Marcos Sastre (1808-1887), distinguished educator born in Montevideo and emigrated as a child to the current Concepción del Uruguay -when his parents decided not to submit to the Luso-Brazilian invaders-, studied in Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Buenos Aires. After a stay in Montevideo, he opened a bookstore in the capital of the Argentine Confederation, where he created the famous Literary Hall, of ephemeral life, with a reading space and a circulating library. After that brief affectus with the Rosas government, the Hall was closed and Sastre had to close that area of ​​intellectual debate and even his bookstore, finishing off the stock.

Some time later, when Rosas was exiled, Marcos Sastre dedicated himself to journalism and his work as an educator, being the Inspector General of Schools. In those years he edited numerous texts in his commitment to educate the entire population.

Rafael Hernández (Buenos Aires, 1840 - 1903), to whom this copy is dedicated, younger brother of José Hernández -author of the Martín Fierro-, was a surveyor, politician and journalist, founder of the National University of La Plata. Being Avellaneda President of the Republic, Rafael Hernández was appointed member of the Department of Engineering of the Province and in charge of the Land Registry and Geodesy Section. He founded and traced the towns of Tres Arroyos, Pringles, Pehuajó, Coronel Suárez, San Carlos de Bolivia, and Colonia Nueva Plata.

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