Formosa. Peuser. Buenos Aires. 1894.

Formosa. Peuser. Buenos Aires. Printing, Lithography and Binding by Jacobo Peuser. 1894.

Octavo, (17.3 cm x 12.5 cm), 141 pp., (includes Title page) Modern binding preserving its original covers. Copy in good condition, with a restoration on the front cover, title page and first page; especially the lower right corner. Suarez, b. 8009.

The text was originally formed by letters written by the author "for Miss Emilia Chueco, to be read only within the family (...)" but having shown that with their publication they could be useful for the country, giving to know that territory, they finally came to light in this book. Gathers in his texts a sharp look at that space so far from the center of power: Buenos Aires.

Manuel Cosme Chueco (1847-1916) was an important editor known for the Albums that he prepared for the Centennial of independence in 1910; by then he had already published his first book that refers to the National Territory of Formosa after the war of the Triple Alliance and the international award.

Chueco analyzes in these pages the data of the geography, the flora and fauna, the indigenous population, the forestry mills and the carpincheros. He mentions the founding of Villa Emilia, a colonization settlement on land previously occupied by a Paraguayan fort, which, however, did not survive the floods and plagues of locusts that prevented the maintenance of basic agriculture. This book is a highly sought-after work on the incipient colonization of northeastern Argentina.