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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.
Text: 2o (585 x 440 mm). Original red morocco-backed printed paper wrappers (a few minute marginal repairs). Plates: Oblong 2o (370 x 530 mm), with hand-lettered list of the plates (one corner repaired), 14 lithographed plates by Bayot after drawings by Carl Nebel, each finely hand-colored and finished with touches of gum arabic, by Lemercier of Paris, tissue guards. Original sage-green blindstamped cloth, upper cover titled in gilt (skilfully rebacked preserving original spine, minor rubbing). The text and plate volumes in a custom-fitted half green morocco clamshell case. A SUPERB COPY OF THE COMPLETE WORK: with the text volume (a significant source in its own right, often lacking) in flawless original condition and with Nebel's dramatic, panoramic lithographs in especially clean, fresh condition. Whitman Bennett had evidently not seen a copy in wrappers.
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.
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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.