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Mexico 1825 -1828: The Journal and Correspondence of Edward Thornton Tayloe.
by GARDINER, C. Harvey (editor)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, (1959). First edition. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), 212 pp, illustrated. Publisher's gilt lettered green cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Endpaper maps.
Slight shelf wear, trace of foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in moderately soiled & rubbed dust jacket with light edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, still good or better.
"Edward Thornton Tayloe, son of a prominent and wealthy Virginia planter, accompanied United States' Minister Poinsett to Mexico as a self-sustaining private secretary Here he recorded the earliest objective, long-term, eyewitness account of Mexico and Mexican life by an American citizen following the recognition of Mexican independence by the United States " ~Excerpted from the dust jacket
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1395
- Title
- Mexico 1825 -1828: The Journal and Correspondence of Edward Thornton Tayloe.
- Author
- GARDINER, C. Harvey (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Date Published
- (1959)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mexico, Culture, Customs, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Mexico, South America, Central America;
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