Title on wraps: History of the War with Mexico, Containing a brief Sketch of the Life of Maj. Gen. Z. Taylor, Historical Sketches of Mexico, California and Oregon. Also, Plans of Battles, Maps of the Seat of War, &c. By an Officer. Title on tp: The War with Mexico: Containing a Short Account of the Important Events from the Encampment on the Rio Grande to the Surrender of Vera Cruz, Together with Maps of the Country and Plans of the Battles. Also a Brief Sketch of the Life of General Taylor, with Historical and Statistical Accounts of Mexico. By an Officer in the Army. Rochester: D.M. Dewey, Arcade Hall News Rooms, 1847. 8vo, printed paper wraps, 36pp, ad on colored sheet, 8pp inset on "Consumption" (ad for Hastings' Naphtha Syrup), 4pp ad for "Six Lectures on the Uses of the Lungs; Causes, Prevention and cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Asthma (or Phthisic)...and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years." Map of the Seat of War on back wrap and frontis. A rare booklet published at the close of the war. Condition: Scattered foxing, including one large liquid stain that goes from tp nearly half-way through.
Title on wraps: History of the War with Mexico, Containing a brief Sketch of the Life of Maj. Gen. Z. Taylor, Historical Sketches of Mexico, California and Oregon. Also, Plans of Battles, Maps of the Seat of War, &c. By an Officer. Title on tp: The War with Mexico: Containing a Short Account of the Important Events from the Encampment on the Rio Grande to the Surrender of Vera Cruz, Together with Maps of the Country and Plans of the Battles. Also a Brief Sketch of the Life of General Taylor, with Historical and Statistical Accounts of Mexico. By an Officer in the Army. Rochester: D.M. Dewey, Arcade Hall News Rooms, 1847. 8vo, printed paper wraps, 36pp, ad on colored sheet, 8pp inset on "Consumption" (ad for Hastings' Naphtha Syrup), 4pp ad for "Six Lectures on the Uses of the Lungs; Causes, Prevention and cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Asthma (or Phthisic)...and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years." Map of the Seat of War on back wrap and frontis. A rare booklet published at the close of the war. Condition: Scattered foxing, including one large liquid stain that goes from tp nearly half-way through.
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