Item #124027 Our Army at Monterey. Mexico, Thomas Bangs Thorpe.
Our Army at Monterey.
Our Army at Monterey.

Our Army at Monterey.

1847. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847 [pictorial title dated 1848].

Sm. 8vo (18.7 x 13.5 cm), [i-ii] iii-vii [1, blank], 9-204 pp., wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and plate, folded lithograph map (see below). Original marbled boards, green cloth backstrip, fragment of a manuscript label remaining, boards a little rubbed, light foxing, very good. Bookseller label on front pastedown; ink stamp reading "1o Gabinete de Lectura Mexico" on page 9.

§ First edition, second printing, with signature marks in both numbers and letters and the pictorial title dated 1848. The Library of Congress copy, which was probably the copyright deposit copy, has the date 1847 on the illustrated title page. This copy is of interest for the very early bookseller's label at the front: "Devaux's English, German, Spanish, and French Circulating Library and Bookstore 2nd Street of San Francisco No. 4, opposite the Post Office. Mexico" (followed by the terms for lending).

Includes the folding map "Monterey and Its Approaches", [below neat line] "From a Map Drawn by Lieut. Benjamin, U.S.A. and Engraved Expresly [sic] for 'Our Army at Monterey.'" T. Sinclair’s Lith. Phila. (17.7 x 32.5 cm.)

The two plates are the frontispiece, "Entry Into Monterey" (Gilbert & Gihon), "City Of Monterey".

BAL 20306. Braislin Sale 1303. Connor & Faulk 245. Garrett & Goodwin, pp. 143 & 415. Haferkorn, p. 53. Howes T235. Littell Sale 1036. Sabin 95664. Item #124027

Price: $995.00

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