Valley towards Saltillo, From near the base of Palace Hill, at Monterey Looking to the S. West No. 3 of a Series

by Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Powers Whiting, b. 1808

$2,400 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

From Whiting's Army Portfolio, a very scarce series of Mexican War views, which is not only one of the primary visual records of the conflict, but also a fine topographical work that accurately recorded the area at a crucial turning point in its history. The rarest lithographs of the war Tyler . According to Whiting family tradition, the work was limited to no more than 24 sets quoted by Goodspeed's of Boston: The Month at Goodspeed's Book Shop vol. XXI, nos. 2-3, Nov-Dec. 1959, p.

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