ROBINSON, William Davis.

Memoirs of the Mexican revolution: including a narrative of the expedition of General Xavier Mina. With some observations on the practicability of opening a commerce between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, through the Mexican Isthmus in the province of Oaxaca, and at the lake of Nicaragua; and on the future importance of such commerce to the civilized world, and more especially to the United States.

Philadelphia, printed for the author by Lydia R. Bailey, 1820. 8vo (220 x 135 mm), pp. xxxvi, 396; lightly browned; short tear in two leaves; mid nineteenth-century green half calf, gilt crest at foot of spine; slightly rubbed. First edition. ‘Chief contemporary authority on the audacious filibustering expedition against Mexico under Mina, launched with a handful of men, through Texas in 1817. Notable also for its advocacy of a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific via Nicaragua’ (Howes). A London edition followed, in 1821.Howes R380; Sabin 72202.

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