(MEXICAN WAR) An Easy Guide to the Spanish Language or Engli

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(MEXICAN WAR.) An Easy Guide to the Spanish Language or, English and Spanish Conductor . . . for the Use of the American Army and Travellers in this Country, by an American. Folding map. 141, [3] pages. 16mo, disbound; worming, minor foxing. Mexico, 1847

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Issued shortly after the American occupation of Mexico City. Although the author may have been an American, the typesetter apparently was not. "There are many persons among the officers of the U.S.A. who have it now in their power to examine a great fund of Spanish literature but who are unable from their not understanding this beautiful language. . . . [It] will be the means of bringing about a good understanding between the present inhabitants of Mexico." Includes a folding map of Mexico City with extensive key. 2 in OCLC, and none traced at auction.