[Exlibris of José Agustín Pardo de Figueroa]

Exlibris or bookplates are labels or stamps that mark the ownership or provenance of a book. In particular, it belongs to José Agustín Pardo de Figueroa (1695-1747), collected in the album Ex Libris 1, compiled from the bibliographic collections of the National Library of Peru.
Pardo de Figueroa was a colonial official who lived for some time in Spain and Mexico, and who came to occupy the position of Mayor of Cusco between 1742 and 1744. His exlibris is of the heraldic type, through which the coat of arms or blazon of his family is represented.
This bookplate was made by Pablo Minguet (1733-1778), a Spanish publisher, as well as an engraver of seals, plates and signatures. The composition rests on a surface below which is written "ex bibliotheca", a way of naming these marks of provenance until around the first half of the 18th century.