(MEXICAN WAR) Kendall George Wilkins Narrative of the Texan

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(MEXICAN WAR.) Kendall, George Wilkins. Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition. Folding map (short closed tear), 5 plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; endpapers renewed, a bit of marginal dampstaining in Volume II, minor foxing. London, 1844

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first london edition printed the same year as the New York first edition. "Kendall''s book is the best first-hand story of the ill-fated invasion of New Mexico in 1841, an unsuccessful effort to extend the western border of the Republic of Texas to the Rio Grande"--Wagner-Camp 110:2 (incorrectly calling for only 3 plates). Howes K75; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 116B; Streeter Texas 1515a.