Unfortunately it may not be in many local libraries but you may find it in some big-city main library. If you want to know the complete history of your Mauser check out Webster's book.
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The only thing I didn't find was correlation between date of manufacture and serial number, which I have just found on "Culver's Shooting Page", on a thread called, as you would expect, "1891 Mauser Serial Numbers". He even details modifications to each model and when and why they were made. It's not cheap, ($63.00 +) but there can't be a more thoroughly researched and profusely illustrated reference anywhere on the planet. Then I recently googled "Argentine Mauser Rifles" to learn more about it and found an amazingly detailed 296-page book online, available from Amazon, "Argentine Mauser Rifles 1871-1959" by Colin Webster. 22 for just plinking around and have never fired the Mauser since, only unwrapping it occasionally to oil it and admire the beautiful design and workmanship. Since I'm not a marksman or hunter I've stuck to an old. I shot up a few cacti in the Arizona desert, placed it in a gun bag and stored it in my closet. Apparently Argentina sold off thousands as surplus. I bought a Modelo 1891 in the 1960s from Montgomery Ward, wrapped in oil and wax paper, for about $15 along with the bayonet and some ammo. The design was wildly successful and, in 1891 Argentina, who had completed their transition to Remington Rolling Blocks only 11 years earlier, purchased an improved version: the Modelo 1891 rifle, in 7.65x53mm (a caliber now known as "7.65 Argentine.")
(the owners of Mauser) and the Belgian State arms factory at Liege formed a new syndicate, known as Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (now known universally as "FN") to manufacture the new rifle. Due to the fact that the Mauser works were running nearly at capacity supplying the Turks, Ludwig Loewe & Co. 88 in every way, and shopped it to the Belgians. Mauser, feeling snubbed, set to work designing a rifle that eclipsed the Gew. 1888 "Commission Rifle", so called because it was designed by a committee, rather than any independent factory. The Germans responded by fielding the Gew. 1886 Lebel by the French had, almost overnight, obsoleted every other military rifle in the world. The late 19th Century was witness to a frantic global arms race the introduction of the Mle. 71 Vetterli: A 19th Century assault rifle.
Mauser 1909 cavalry carbine: shortened variant, with a straight grip stock and a forecap that covers all the barrel.Mauser 1909 sniper rifle: version with a German-made scope and a bent-down bolt handle.Some Argentine Mauser 1909 rifles and carbines without crests were sold to Paraguay during the Chaco War. The Model 1909s were replaced by FN FALs without having seen combat. The main producer in Germany was Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken that delivered 200,000 rifles while around 85,000 rifles were manufactured by the Fabrica Militar de Armas Portatiles, governmental plants in Rosario and Santa Fe. The M1909 was also able to use the bayonet of the Mauser 1891 it replaced. Among other modifications, the Lange Visier sight was replaced by a tangent leaf sight. Mauser Comparison - 1891 Argentine to 1895 Chilean.
The Mauser 1909 was a slightly modified copy of the Gewehr 98. Another Mauser comparison video, this one to show the differences between the common modern design to the older 1891 design.