Monterey As Seen From A House Top In The Main Plaza To The West October 1846 No 1 Of A Series After The

by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Powers Whiting B 1808

$2,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

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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