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Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Society, 1994. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Elephant Folio, in the publisher's rust cloth over ochre cloth boards with a leather label to the spine, and housed in a matching slipcase; a beautiful facsimile copy, with the 12 lithographs reproduced by the Stinehour Press.~~First published in 1851, this facsimile brilliantly reproduces the original art of work, drawings made by Carl Nebel on the scene.~~From the library of Civil War Historian Gary Gallagher. There is a handwritten card from Mr. Gallagher laid in: "I received this beautiful boxed copy as a gift when I gave a lecture in Austin -- my friend Mike Parrish arranged it. G. W. Gallagher. 3/15//22." Mike Parrish is the very well-regarded Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History at Baylor University.~. Near Fine binding.
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THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, ILLUSTRATED
by George Wilkins Kendall | Carl Nebel [Illustrator] | Ron Tyler [Introduction] | [Gary Gallagher]
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The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts ... with a description of each battle
by KENDALL, George Wilkins; and Carl NEBEL
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New York & Philadelphia: [Plon Brothers of Paris for] D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio. 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates on card, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris, 1 lithographed map. Original front wrapper bound in. Expertly bound to style in green morocco backed period cloth boards, covers stamped in gilt, flat spine lettered in gilt. One of the most important pictorial works relating to the Mexican-American War. "We have never seen anything to equal the artistic skill, perfection of design, marvellous beauty of execution, delicacy of truth of coloring, and lifelike animation of figures...They present the most exquisite specimens ever exhibited in this country of the art of colored lithography; and we think that great praise ought to be awarded to Mr. Kendall for having secured such brilliant and beautiful and costly illustrations for the faithful record of the victories of the American army"…
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War Between the United States and Mexico
by NEBEL Carl KENDALL George Wilkins
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1851. First Edition . KENDALL, George W. and NEBEL, Carl. The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel
with a Description of Each Battle by Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York and Philadelphia: D. Appleton; George S. Appleton, 1851. Large folio (19 by 23-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in morocco-gilt, original morocco-gilt front cover label. $27,500.First edition of one of the most important and impressive pictorial chronicles of the Mexican-American War, boasting 12 superb folio hand-finished full-color lithographic plates.Founder of the New Orleans Picayune and America's first war correspondent, George Kendall ""filed many reports
of combat during the Mexican-American War. Many newspapers reprinted Kendall's reports and Americans knew him to be [an] ardent annexationist and partisan supporter of the United States
After the war Kendall commissioned…
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1851. KENDALL, George Wilkins and Carl NEBEL. War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts ... with a description of each battle. New York & Philadelphia: Plon Brothers of Paris for D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio. 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris, 1 lithographed map. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco and period red cloth covered boards, spine gilt. A first-hand report, in words and pictures, of the first offensive war fought by the United States: the first and only edition, with superb hand-coloured lithographed plates of one of the most important pictorial works relating to the Mexican-American War. Kendall was America's first great war correspondent, and an ardent proponent of the necessity of America's war with Mexico. When hostilities broke out, he went at once to the Rio Grande…
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