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Lot 187
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* George Wilkins Kendall (1809-1867) and Carl Nebel (1805-1855), The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all principal conflicts..., 1851, Appleton & Co., New York and Phil., folio (22 in. x 16 1/2 in.), first edition, cloth binding, printed paper label, with 12 hand-colored lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot after Nebel, one map titled "Map of the Operations of the American Army in the Valley of Mexico in August and September 1847".
- Notes: Note: Kendall was in Texas as a reporter when he heard the news of the Mexican War. As a war correspondent with Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, he captured a cavalry flag, was wounded in the knee and earned widespread praise for devising methods for swift transmission of his war dispatches to the Picayune. He fitted a steamer as a press ship and took the news to New Orleans where the Picayune rushed it to press. From there it was dispatched by horseback to other newspapers in the country. Nebel, originally from Germany, traveled to America and lived in Mexico from 1829 until 1834 His plates for this folio are considered the very best American battle scenes made.
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