[Exlibris of Hiram Bingham]

Bookplate of Hiram Bingham (Hawaii, 1875 - Washington, 1956), collected in the album Ex Libris 1, compiled from the bibliographic collection of the National Library of Peru.
Bookplates are labels or marks placed as ownership seals on books, commonly on the inside of the cover, flyleaf, or frontispiece. They are elements that reflect qualities, tastes, trajectory or the history of its owner, usually with a great aesthetic charge.
Bingham was a renowned American explorer and politician. In 1911, he made the existence of the Inca city of Machu Picchu internationally known.