Monterey. October 17, 1846. Broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Old fold lines. Minor wear. Near fine. In a cloth clamshell case. American forces, under the overall command of Gen. Zachary Taylor, fought for control of the important city of Monterrey, Mexico during September 22-28, 1846 in one of.....
[San Francisco: Fraternal Publishing Company, 1886]. 30pp., plus illustrations. Text in double columns. Printed wrappers, pictorial vignette on rear wrapper, bound into contemporary gilt cloth. Front hinge cracked, endpapers discolored. Very clean internally. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: "Major Gen. Oliver O. Howard U.S.A. Commanding.....
Mexico City: Printed by R. Rafael, 1847. 7pp. Dbd. Minor toning, soft vertical crease throughout. Very good. The English-language portion of a rare bilingual-printed Mexican pamphlet from the waning months of the Mexican-American War. The Spanish portion of eight pages was published with a separate titlepage as INSTRUCCIONES OTORGADAS POR.....
Washington. 1846. 33pp. Dbd. Remnants of spine reinforcement, else very good. President Polk's calling for war to revenge the "wanton insults" by the Mexican government. An important document with much on the annexation of Texas and other examples of the deteriorating relationship with Mexico.
[Washington]. 1846. 131pp. Dbd. Minor marginal dampstain to a couple of leaves. Very good. Sen. Doc., 29th Cong. 1st Sess. A fundamental document in the history of the Mexican-American War. President Polk describes the status of Mexican-American relations, asserts that a state of war exists, and calls for upon the.....
[Washington. 1846]. 81pp. Dbd. Very good. In a blue cloth folder. Prints correspondence from generals Gaines and Scott, and concerns Scott's taking command of the army of occupation on the Texas frontier.
Washington. 1848. 1277pp. Large, thick octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather label, raised bands. Occassional light fox mark. Overall, very good. A huge report chock full of material on the Mexican-American War, printing correspondence, messages, reports, etc. "Perhaps the most important collection of material we have for the.....
Monterey, Mexico. Dec. 14, 1847. [1]p. plus integral docketing leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Minor soiling, else very fine. A fair copy of orders from U.S. Army Headquarters, issued at the command of General Wool ordering that no ordnance be condemned as unusable without proper review.....
[Washington, D.C. 1847]. Engraved map, 16 x 25 1/4 inches, with hand- coloring, on a 19 1/2 x 27 inch sheet. Worn around the edges, with chips and loss, not affecting the map imagery itself. Two closed tears in the left edge do intrude into the map. Paper tanned, upper.....
[Washington. 1847]. 16pp. Dbd. Soiled. Good. Against the war.
[Washington. 1846]. 16pp. Dbd. Soiled and dampstained, else good. Against the war.
[Augusta, Me. 1846]. [2]pp. on bifolium sheet of blue paper. Printed on recto of each leaf only. Early soft creases from folding. Tiny separations at cross-folds. Small bit of discoloration on second page. Very good. Message of Maine governor H.J. Anderson and a general order from Alfred Redington, Commander in.....
[Washington. 1846]. 52pp. Dbd. Very good. The committee outlines reasons for the U.S. declaration of war against Mexico in May, 1846.
Queretaro. 1847. 8pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Issued by Pena as provisional president of the Republic, upon arrival of the government in Queretaro after the fall of Mexico City. He describes the "horrible events" of the defeat.
Washington. 1846. 14pp. Dbd. Good. Against the war.
Mexico City. Sept. 17, 1847. [4]pp. printed on a single folded sheet. Old vertical crease. Three tears along the central fold, resulting in loss of paper but no text. Very good. A rare copy of an important order issued by Gen. Winfield Scott just days after his victory at the.....
Mexico City. Sept. 18, 1847. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Tears in left edge and upper edge, not affecting text. Very good. A rare order issued by Gen. Winfield Scott, just a few days after he captured Mexico City. Following victories at Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino.....
New York & St. Louis: Nafis & Cornish, [1848]. 250,vi pp., including twenty-five engravings (ten of them full-page, including frontispiece portrait), titlepage vignette, and tail pieces. 24mo. Original sheep, gilt pictorial spine. Boards rubbed and lightly scuffed, corners bumped, small nick in head of spine. Scattered light foxing, old tideline.....
Mexico: Juan R. Navarro, 1856. 560,xxxii pp. Small quarto. Contemporary half red calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners worn, lower portion of spine torn slightly. Negligible soiling. Very good. This collection contains all decrees published during 1848. Included are regulations covering imports, exports, the army, elections, and administration of.....
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Mexico & Queretaro. [ 1838-1851]. Thirty-three pamphlets, variously paginated, bound in three volumes. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Front hinge of first volume cracking. Light scattered foxing and soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Some light wear to several larger documents folded into volume. Manuscript index at.....
New York: Random House, 1939. Not paginated. Marble boards. Spine rubbed, frayed. Internally clean, bright. Very good. Twenty-eight color plates of naval scenes of the War of California. With an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt and an essay on the historical background. Printed at the Grabhorn Press.
Charleston, S.C. 1849. xii,234pp. Contemporary half sheep and embossed cloth, spine gilt. Head and foot of spine slightly chipped, spine lightly worn. Extremities rubbed and lightly soiled. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown, later bookplate on front fly leaf and rear pastedown. Scattered foxing and tanning. Very good. One of.....
New York. Aug. 29, 1846. [2]pp. Folio newspaper. Moderate edge wear, lower right corner torn away, fold lines. Good. A scarce issue of the famed ...DAILY TRIBUNE..., with much on Gen. Kearny's activities during the Santa Fe expedition in the Mexican-American War, giving breaking news on the seizure of New.....
Philadelphia. 1859. 251,[5]pp. plus double-page map and 12 plates. Original brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Spine rubbed, head and tail lightly chipped, spotted soiling. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Foxing and toning, scattered dampstaining. About good. Later edition, after the first of 1847. A first-hand account of campaigns on the.....
Baltimore: John W. Woods, Printer, 1848. 96pp. plus three wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece), one in-text illustration, and a facsimile manuscript. Modern morocco in an antique style, spine gilt, raised bands, edges tooled in gilt. Contemporary institutional gift inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Second.....
