ROBINSON, Fayette.

Mexico and her military chieftains, from the revolution of Hidalgo to the present time. Comprising sketches of the lives of Hidalgo, Morelos, Iturbide, Santa Anna, Gomez Farias, Bustamente, Paredes, Almonte, Arista, Alaman, Ampudia, Herrera, and de la Vega.

Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & Co.,1847. 8vo (195 x 120 mm), pp. 343, [1, blank], 8 (advertisements),with 12 plates; slightly foxed; original pink cloth; soiled, spine chipped at head and foot; First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘E. A. Crenshaw from his cousin Fayette Robinson. Philadelphia Pa. June 15 1847’ (and with Crenshaw’s bookplate). ‘I have sought to present a fair view of the past condition of the self-named republic, and to trace the origin of that series of events which have made it the victim of successive revolutions, each of which has left the country in a worse condition than when the tenor of circumstances was interrupted by the preceding convulsion . . . . The additional chapter [pp. 304–343] will be found principally a collation of official documents, which it was believed would give a better idea of the present war than any sketch which could be crowded into so small a space as I was restricted to, when the course of my story had brought me to the days in which they occurred’ (preface).Palau 271083; Sabin 72071.

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