Exlibris of José de San Martín (Yapeyú, 1778 – Boulogne sur Mer, 1850), liberator of Peru and founder 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.
In particular, this ex libris is of the typographic type, a simple elaboration style that includes the name or some signature related to the owner.