Naval Scenes in the Mexican War

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Los 79 | Naval Scenes in the Mexican War
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Naval Scenes in the Mexican War
Henry Walke, 1847-1848
WALKE, Henry (1809-1896). Naval Portfolio. Naval Scenes in the Mexican War. New York: Sarony and Major, [1847-1848].

Extremely rare complete portfolio of Lieutenant Walke's monumental and important naval scenes of the Mexican-American War. No copies are recorded at auction, according to RBH. The prints are numbered 1-8 and each is titled and more completely subtitled with details of the action. Lieutenant Henry Walke was a Virginian who enlisted in the Navy on February 1, 1827; at first he cruised for pirates in the Caribbean. In the Mexican-American War he made an eight-month voyage in the Vesuvius, supporting landings at Tuxpan and Tabasco. He was still serving when the Civil War broke out and, though a Southerner, he fought on the Union side. He faced censure when he aided the Union-loyalists stuck in Fort Pickens, Florida, (some of whom were his former shipmates) when he was supposed to be relieving forces in Vera Cruz. He published his autobiography in 1877. The prints comprise:
1. The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Comre. M.C. Perry
2. The U.S. Naval Expedition under Comore. M.C. Perry
3. The U. States Steamers, Scorpion, Spitfire, Vixen, and Scourge, with 40 Barges in Tow, crossing the Bar at the Mouth of Tabasco River, Mexico
4. The Attack of the Mexicans from the Chapperal, on the First Division of the Naval Expedition to Tabasco (Mexico)
5. The Naval Expedition under Comre. Perry, ascending the Tabasco River at the Devils Bend, June 15th 1847
6. The Landing, of the Naval Expedition, against Tabasco, (Mexico.) Commore. M.C. Perry in Command
7. The Capture of the City of Tabasco, by the U.S. Naval Expedition, afloat and on shore, under Commore. M.C. Perry
8. The U.S. Naval Battery during the Bombardment of Vera Cruz on the 24 and 25 of March 1847

Eight tinted lithographed plates, finished with hand-color, by Sarony & Major after the drawings of Henry Walke, approx. 570 x 756mm. (Cleaned, restoration to edges with some repaired chips and some faint marginal stains remaining, a faint tidemark throughout, barely visible; repaired tears just touching images in pls. 1 & 8, pl. 2 with larger edge repairs, resized, and lower right corner replaced with several words in the imprint supplied in facsimile.) Individually matted; modern quarter morocco solander box, morocco cover label.Walke, Henry
Mexican-American War
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