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Author: Robinson, Fayette
Title: Mexico and Her Military Chieftains, from the Revolution of Hidalgo to the Present Time. Comprising Sketches of the Lives of Hidalgo, Morelos, Iturbide, Santa Anna, Gomez Farias, Bustamante, Paredes, Almonte, Arista, Alaman, Ampudia, Herrera, and De La Vega
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:E.H. Butler & Co.
Date Published: 1847
Description:

[i-v] vi-ix, [3], [13] 14-343 [1, blank], [1] 2-8 (ads) pp. 12 plates, including frontispiece. (12mo) 18.7x12 cm (7¼x4¾"), original charcoal grey printed wrappers (portrait of Taylor on lower wrap), sewn. First Edition.

Includes an account of the engagement of the Texas Navy under the command of E.W. Moore and the Mexican Navy off Campeche in April of 1843. This was the first time that steam and sail vessels had ever been in combat against each other, and the first time Paixhan guns were used in naval combat.

According to the ad of the rear wrapper of this same publisher’s 1847 Taylor and His Generals (q.v.), this volume cost 50 cents and by the time Taylor and His Generals had appeared 8,000 copies had been printed.

Rarely encountered in wrappers. 

 

 

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Wrappers slightly chipped and reinforced with tape along joints; light foxing to text; ownership signature on upper wrapper.