The War Between the United States and Mexico

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Los 222 | The War Between the United States and Mexico
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
The War Between the United States and MexicoGeorge Wilkins Kendall, 1851KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867) and Carl NEBEL (1802-1855). The War Between the United States and Mexico illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel...With a Description of Each Battle. New York & Philadelphia: Appleton, 1851.The Doheny copy of the first edition of the best pictorial record of the Mexican-American war. Kendall, a journalist with the New Orleans Picayune, had repeatedly endorsed U.S. military action against Mexico. When war broke out, he "rode with the rangers, witnessed most of Taylor's battles, and himself captured a cavalry flag...he attatched himself as a voluntary aide to the staff of General Worth and saw nearly all the fighting from Vera Cruz to Chapultepec. He was mentioned in dispatches and was wounded in the knee in the storming of the last fortress" (DAB). Bennett, p. 65 ("these seem...the very best American battle scenes in existence"); Best of the West 120; Howes K-76 ("b"); Sabin 37362.Large folio (555 x 410mm). 12 handcolored lithographed plates and one uncolored map (foxing to first plate, front endpaper creased and torn). Blue cloth over flexible boards, original printed cover label laid down (some rubbing to spine and extremities, slight bump to upper corner). Custom box. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale, Christie’s New York, 1 & 2 February 1988, Part III, Lot 234).
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