War Between the United States and Mexico
NEBEL Carl KENDALL George Wilkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 1851
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"KENDALL, George W. and NEBEL, Carl. The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel… with a Description of Each Battle by Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York and Philadelphia: D. Appleton; George S. Appleton, 1851. Large folio (19 by 23-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in morocco-gilt, original morocco-gilt front cover label. $27,500.First edition of one of the most important and impressive pictorial chronicles of the Mexican-American War, boasting 12 superb folio hand-finished full-color lithographic plates.Founder of the New Orleans Picayune and America's first war correspondent, George Kendall "filed many reports… of combat during the Mexican-American War. Many newspapers reprinted Kendall's reports and Americans knew him to be [an] ardent annexationist and partisan supporter of the United States… After the war Kendall commissioned Carl Nebel, a noted German-born artist and resident of Mexico, to provide 12 hand-colored lithographs that would accompany Kendall's 52 pages of battle descriptions… Nebel's approach was in contrast to most print-makers or illustrators of his day… [He] portrayed soldiers, military units and the terrain realistically, eschewing much (but not all) of the standard 19th century heroic and romantic styles. Other contemporary prints of battles of the Mexican-American War were rendered by illustrators who had not been in Mexico and took liberties with all aspects of what they drew. Kendall provided officers' after-action reports to Nebel, who visited the site of the battle a few months after the event and then painted the scene" (Dawson, Louisiana History 38:2, 236, 237).While the work was published in New York and Philadelphia, the lithographs were produced in Paris. Kendall and Nebel judged only Parisian lithographers qualified to produce the images, and both men spent some time in Europe overseeing the production, for which they shared costs (three shillings per print). They employed the firm of innovative lithographer Rose-Joseph Lemercier; he "developed a number of new processes, including a method of obtaining delicate shadings by spreading powdered crayon on a stone that had been slightly warmed… Looking at the prints from Kendall's volume today, one is struck by the soft ink washes and delicate tonal areas that underlie the watercolor. Highlights seem to have been either reserved with a waxen substance… or carefully scraped into the surface of the stone to yield understated areas of support for the hand coloring" (Sandweiss et al., Eyewitness to War, 36). The prints, three years in the making, "received good press notices even before they left Europe. The Paris correspondent for the Herald referred to the set as 'one of the most superb works of art ever achieved in Paris.' He reported that the plates were 'colored in the highest style of art,' and that they were so carefully done that the best artists of London, Paris and Brussels were able to finish only one per day. 'The fidelity of the landscapes, and the truthfulness of every point introduced into the pictures, cannot but be at once acknowledged and appreciated by the best connoisseur'" (Tyler, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 77:1, 19). "The very best American battle scenes in existence" (Bennett, 65). Because many copies have been broken for the framing of plates, the complete work is today quite scarce. With 12 plates: 1)The Battle of Palo Alto; 2)The Capture of Monterey; 3)The Battle of Buena Vista; 4)The Bombardment of Vera Cruz; 5)Battle of Cerro Gordo; 6)The Assault at Contreras; 7)The Battle at Churubusco; 8) and 9)Battle of Molino del Rey; 10 and 11)The Storming of Chapultepec; 12)General Scott's Entrance into Mexico. Also includes folio map of operations. Sabin 37362. Howes K76. Expert cleaning to text and plate extremities not affecting images, and occasional minor marginal paper repairs; original marbled boards expertl. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102318
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Titel: War Between the United States and Mexico
Erscheinungsdatum: 1851
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THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, ILLUSTRATED
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Texas State Historical Society, Austin, TX, 1994
ISBN 10: 087611138X
ISBN 13: 9780876111383
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine binding. Elephant Folio, in the publisher's rust cloth over ochre cloth boards with a leather label to the spine, and housed in a matching slipcase; a beautiful facsimile copy, with the 12 lithographs reproduced by the Stinehour Press.~~First published in 1851, this facsimile brilliantly reproduces the original art of work, drawings made by Carl Nebel on the scene.~~From the library of Civil War Historian Gary Gallagher. There is a handwritten card from Mr. Gallagher laid in: "I received this beautiful boxed copy as a gift when I gave a lecture in Austin -- my friend Mike Parrish arranged it. G. W. Gallagher. 3/15//22." Mike Parrish is the very well-regarded Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History at Baylor University.~. Near Fine binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 295325
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The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts . with a description of each Battle
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Folio (22 4/8 x 17 inches). One lithographic map "Map of the Operations of the American Army in the Valley of Mexico in August and September 1847" 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot after Carl Nebel (some spotting throughout and occasional light marginal staining). Original blue linen, printed paper label on the front cover (some staining, a bit scuffed at the extremities). Provenance: with the small library label of the Litchfield Historical Society on the front paste-down. First edition, variant issue in cloth binding, also published in paper wrappers, loose in a portfolio, and in half cloth. This extraordinary book was the work of two men who were masters of their respected trades. George W. Kendall was the pre-eminent war reporter of the day, and Carl Nebel was one of the finest artists working in the Southwest able to transpose chaotic scenes with a vivid eye for detail and composition. THE FINEST LITHOGRAPHIC VIEW OF TEXAS PRODUCED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY George W. Kendall was a printer, a respected newspaperman, and a journalist whose account of his Santa Fe Trail adventures in 1841-1842, following his surrender to the Mexicans, was first published as letters in serial publications. His story, once released in book form in 1844, was so compelling that it went through many contemporary editions and upwards of 40000 copies were sold through the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1847. Kendall supported the admission of Texas to the Union, and was in Texas as a reporter when he heard the news of the Mexican War. "Despite his earlier experiences, he accompanied the armies of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott into Mexico as a war correspondent. While there, he captured a cavalry flag, was wounded in the knee, and earned widespread praise for devising, with Lumsden, methods for swift transmission of his war dispatches to the "Picayune". The men fitted out a small steamer as a press ship; it met other ships bearing war news, readied the news for printing, and took it to New Orleans, where workers at the "Picayune" rushed it to the press. It was circulated in the city and transmitted by swift express riders to other newspapers in the country. Kendall's biographer Fayette Copeland says that his Mexican War journalism made him famous as "the first modern war correspondent and the most widely known reporter in America in his day" (p. 150). "Before leaving Mexico, Kendall had agreed to write a book about the war that a [German] artist, Carl Nebel, was to illustrate. In 1848 Kendall sailed to France to work on the book, which was published in New Orleans and New York in 1851 as "The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated". While in France, Kendall wrote frequent dispatches for the "Picayune" about the revolution of 1848. He also met and in 1849 married Adeline de Valcourt, a woman twenty-two years his junior, with whom he had four children. In 1852 he and his family moved to Texas near the present city of New Braunfels, where he became a sheep farmer at his ranch, "Post Oak" (Mary Ann Wimsatt for ADNB). "The very best American battle scenes in existence" (Bennett) Nebel, originally from Hamburg in Germany, travelled to America and lived in Mexico from 1829 until 1834. In 1836, he published in Paris his celebrated work "Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique", with 50 lithographs and an introduction by renowned explorer Alexander Humboldt. Nebel's magnificent plates in this volume depict the major battles of the Mexican War in dramatic and glorious detail. References: Bennett, American-Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books. Howes K76. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 72lib1158
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War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing
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KENDALL, George Wilkins and Carl NEBEL. War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts . with a description of each battle. New York & Philadelphia: Plon Brothers of Paris for D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio. 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris, 1 lithographed map. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco and period red cloth covered boards, spine gilt. A first-hand report, in words and pictures, of the first offensive war fought by the United States: the first and only edition, with superb hand-coloured lithographed plates of one of the most important pictorial works relating to the Mexican-American War. Kendall was America's first great war correspondent, and an ardent proponent of the necessity of America's war with Mexico. When hostilities broke out, he went at once to the Rio Grande where he joined with the Rangers, and later attached himself to the Scott expedition. For this work he keyed his text to the individual plates and the combination affords a detailed illustrated account of each battle. The plates are the work of the German artist, Carl Nebel, who painted each of the twelve major clashes of the war. Kendall notes in his preface that "Of the twelve illustrations accompanying his work. the greater number were drawn on the spot by the artist. So far as regards the general configuration of the ground, fidelity of the landscape, and correctness of the works and buildings introduced, they may be strictly relied upon. Every reader must be aware of the impossibility, in painting a battle scene, of giving more than one feature or principal incident of the strife. The artist has ever chosen what he deemed the more interesting as well as exciting points of each combat. in the present series of illustrations the greatest care has been taken to avoid inaccuracies." The authors of Eyewitness to War wrote approvingly that the present work "represents the climax of the confluence of journalism and lithography on the prints of the Mexican war" and that Nebel's images are "the eyewitness prints. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 73701
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The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts . with a description of each battle.
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Folio (23 4/8 x 17 6/8 inches). Text bound in red cloth backed buff printed paper wrappers (upper corner of front cover torn with loss). One lithographic "Map of the Operations of the American Army in the Valley of Mexico in August and September 1847" 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot after Carl Nebel, and each stamped with small copyright ink stamp lower left (margins browned, spotted and stained, one with early closed tear, images clear and bright). Loose in original maroon cloth, gilt portfolio (ties lacking). First edition. George W. Kendall was a printer, a respected newspaperman, and a journalist whose account of his Santa Fe Trail adventures in 1841-1842, following his surrender to the Mexicans, was first published as letters in serial publications. His story, once released in book form in 1844, was so compelling that it went through many contemporary editions and upwards of 40000 copies were sold through the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1847. Kendall supported the admission of Texas to the Union, and was in Texas as a reporter when he heard the news of the Mexican War. "Despite his earlier experiences, he accompanied the armies of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott into Mexico as a war correspondent. While there, he captured a cavalry flag, was wounded in the knee, and earned widespread praise for devising, with Lumsden, methods for swift transmission of his war dispatches to the "Picayune". The men fitted out a small steamer as a press ship; it met other ships bearing war news, readied the news for printing, and took it to New Orleans, where workers at the "Picayune" rushed it to the press. It was circulated in the city and transmitted by swift express riders to other newspapers in the country. Kendall's biographer Fayette Copeland says that his Mexican War journalism made him famous as "the first modern war correspondent and the most widely known reporter in America in his day" (p. 150). "Before leaving Mexico, Kendall had agreed to write a book about the war that a [German] artist, Carl Nebel, was to illustrate. In 1848 Kendall sailed to France to work on the book, which was published in New Orleans and New York in 1851 as "The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated". While in France, Kendall wrote frequent dispatches for the "Picayune" about the revolution of 1848. He also met and in 1849 married Adeline de Valcourt, a woman twenty-two years his junior, with whom he had four children. In 1852 he and his family moved to Texas near the present city of New Braunfels, where he became a sheep farmer at his ranch, "Post Oak" (Mary Ann Wimsatt for ADNB). "The very best American battle scenes in existence" (Bennett) Nebel, originally from Hamburg in Germany, travelled to America and lived in Mexico from 1829 until 1834. In 1836, he published in Paris his celebrated work "Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique", with 50 lithographs and an introduction by renowned explorer Alexander Humboldt. Nebel's magnificent plates in this volume depict the major battles of the Mexican War in dramatic and glorious detail, and include: "Probably the finest lithographic view of Texas produced in the nineteenth century" (Tyler) Battle of Palo. The only Texas lithograph in the work .The Battle of Palo Alto (May 8, 1846), fought on Texas soil north of Brownsville, was the first major engagement of the Mexican-American War and the first U.S. victory (Handbook of Texas Online: Battle of Palo Alto). The view, which shows the action from the perspective of a viewer behind the U.S. lines looking south toward the Mexican positions, has been praised for its artistic beauty and historical verisimilitude. Ron Tyler rates the print as "probably the finest lithographic view of Texas produced in the nineteenth century." Tyler comments: "Nebel adopted a practice in the Palo Alto print, that also turns up in later ones, of p. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 72lib623
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The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts, by Carl Nebel, author of "A picturesque and archæological voyage in Mexico," with a description of each battle, by Geo. Wilkins Kendall, author of "The Texan Santa Fé expedition," etc., etc.
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Plon brothers for D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, Paris, New York and Philadelphia, 1851
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First. "THE CLIMAX OF THE CONFLUENCE OF JOURNALISM AND LITHOGRAPHY" First edition. Paris: Plon brothers for New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio (22 7/8" x 17 3/16", 578mm x 435mm). With a lithographed map and 12 hand-colored lithographed plates (the plates loose, each window-matted, within a separate chemise) heightened in gum arabic. Bound in contemporary (?) card wraps, backed in modern red cloth. On the front wrapper, the publisher's red moiré cloth title-label gilt. Presented in a morocco-backed clam-shell case, with the text inset and the plates in a four-fold chemise. The wrappers sometime creased, the front a little cockled at the label. Tanning to the map; else near fine. The odd spot of foxing to the plates, each captioned in graphite manuscript. An exceptional set of a work seldom well-preserved. George Wilkins Kendall (1809-1867) and Carl Nebel (1805-1855) had each become distinguished for their publications, Kendall for his sensational account of capture and imprisonment in Mexico 1841-1842, Nebel for his picturesque Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique, with an introduction by no less than Alexander von Humboldt. The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, which ended with the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo in 1848 and the cession of some 55% of Mexico's territory to the United States (including modern California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona), provided an opportunity for the two specialists to collaborate. The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated has been called "the climax of the confluence of journalism and lithography" (Martha Sandweiss, Rick Stewart and Ben W. Huseman. Eyewitness to War. Fort Worth, TX and Washington, D.C.: Amon Carter Museum and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989; pp. 36-37), and it might be said that no publication did more to bring current events vividly to the eye of the public. Punishingly expensive ($34-40 depending on the binding), the work was carried out by Plon frères et Compagnie in Paris, where Kendall was reporting from 1848 while Nebel was still in Mexico drawing the views. The introduction underscores the journalistic aims of the work, including representing the fighting men in their "ordinary fatigue caps and dresses" rather than the showier but inaccurate full dress uniforms. Kendall has been dubbed the first modern war-correspondent, and his descriptions of the battles are distinct from the sensationalist and jingoistic accounts usually to be found in the press. Still, the publication is clear in its triumphalism; the famous depiction of Winfield Scott's entrance into Mexico City, the flag of the United States flying, is the totem of Manifest Destiny. The work is very often to be found in tatters, and so the fine condition of this set, each plate being separately window-mounted on archival museum board, is of particular note. It would be a good candidate for framing and display. Bennett, American 19th Century Colour Plate Books, p. 65; Howes K 76 ("b"); Sabin 37362; Sandweiss-Stewart-Huseman op. cit., pp. 36-37. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers JLR0677
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