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First Edition of Wise's Los Gringos

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Title: Los Gringos: Or, an Inside View of Mexico and California...
Author: Wise, Lieut. [Henry Augustus].
Description: xvi, 453 pp. 7½x5¾, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.The author, a lieutenant in the United States Navy, served in the Mexican War, and his narrative includes accounts of the battles of San Pascual, San Gabriel and La Mesa, Fremont, Monterey, the town of Yerba Buena, the blockade of Mazatlan, etc. Wise also visited Hawaii. Cowan p.691; Forbes 1761; Howes W593.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Baker and Scribner
Date Published: 1849