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KENDALL. The War between the United States and Me

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New York: D. Appleton & Company; and Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio (550 x 430 mm). Map, 12 hand-colored lithographed plates, finished with gum arabic, after Nebel, lithographed by Bayot in Paris. Contemporary green cloth covered boards, printed paper title label on the upper cover. Housed in a green morocco-backed clamshell box. Condition: foxing, heavier to the text than the plates, endpapers creased; wear and light staining to the covers. the best pictorial record of the mexican-american war. Plates comprise: 1) Battle of Palo alto 2) Capture of Monterey 3) Battle of Buena Vista 4) Bombardment of Vera Cruz 5) Battle of Cerro gardo 6) Assault of Contreras 7) Battle of Churubusco 8) Molino del Rey - attack upon the molino 9) Molino del Rey - attack upon the casa mata 10) Storming of Chapultepec - Pillow's attack 11) Storming of Chapultepec - Quitman's attack 12) General Scott's entrance into Mexico Kendall served as a journalist for a New Orleans newspaper and when the war broke out he travelled to the region as a correspondent. Kendall "rode with the rangers, witnessed most of Taylor's battles, and himself captured a cavalry flag ... 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). While in Mexico, Kendall met German artist Carl Nebel and the two would produce this remarkable American color plate book (albeit with the plates printed in Paris). It is believed to have been printed in an edition of 500 copies; far fewer have survived intact. Bennett p. 65 ("the very best American battle scenes in existence"); Howes K76; Sabin 37362.

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