(MEXICO) Alcaraz Ramon; et al Apuntes para la Historia de la

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"THE BEST MEXICAN SOURCE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR" (MEXICO.) Alcaraz, Ramon; et al. Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre México y los Estados-Unidos. 14 folding maps (some hand-colored), 14 portrait plates (one crudely hand-colored), one folding table. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear; front hinge split, minor foxing; bookplate on front pastedown, description tipped in. Mexico, 1848

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first edition. Compiled shortly after the close of the Mexican-American War by a group of 15 young Mexican liberals, who offered a critical examination of the causes of their defeat. Santa Anna was not pleased, and later ordered the destruction of all copies of this book. "The best Mexican source on the conduct of the war"--J.R. Soley in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, page VII:443. Contains one or two extra folding maps not called for elsewhere. Howes A105 ("b"); Palau 14138; Sabin 48281 ("extremely rare"); Streeter sale I:279.