APUNTES PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA GUERRA ENTRE MÉXICO Y LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS
Mexico: [Tipografia de Manuel Payno], 1848. First Edition. Octavo, 401 [3] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in quarter leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt tooling and lettering. Moderate rubbing and wear to boards. With all 14 maps. With 13 of the 14 portraits, lacking only General Arista. With the folding plate 'Ejército del Norte.' Includes the rare map 'Plano de las posiciones…en la Resaca de Guerrero.'
Ex-library, with usual markings, including a removed bookplate from the front pastedown, 'removed' stamp to the front free endpaper, William and Mary College stamp to page 51.
Page 359 misprinted as 159. Small damage to page 373. Text in Spanish. Shelved case 9.
1374680
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $2,500
NOTES
Sabin 1858 & 48281. Howes A105.
Sabin: "General Santa Anna, when last in power, ordered the edition to be destroyed, and imprisoned the authors." It is considered to be one of the most valuable sources about American involvement in the Mexican-American war from the point of view of Mexico.