Lot 152: KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). 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. New York & Philadelphia: Appleton,

KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). 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. New York & Philadelphia: Appleton, 1851.

2υo (542 x 425 mm). 12 lithographed plates by Bayot after drawings by Carl Nebel, each finely hand-colored and finished with touches of gum arabic, by Lemercier of Paris. Modern red half morocco spine gilt, contemporary printed boards mounted on sides.

FIRST EDITION. THE BEST PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO. Kendall, a journalist with the New Orleans Picayune, had repeatedly endorsed U.S. military action against Mexico. When war broke out, he "rode with the rangers, witnessed most of Taylor's battles, and himself captured a cavalry flag...he attatched himself as a voluntary aide to the staff of General Worth 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). Bennett p. 65 ("these seem...the very best American battle scenes in existence"); Howes K-76 ("b," "The fine plates by Carl Nebel were produced at Paris, the text printed at New Orleans, the book bound and sold by Appleton in New York"); Sabin 37362.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES W. NEWHALL, III