[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Eng. ed. of Alcarez's notes from "The Other Side" (of the Mexican/American War) w/10 ports. & 14 maps. NY: 1850

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Alcarez, Ramon]. THE OTHER SIDE: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States. Written in Mexico. Translated from the Spanish and Edited, with notes, by Albert C. Ramsey. New York: John Wiley. 1850. 8vo. xvi,458pp. Illustrated with 10 litho. portraits and 14 folding maps, complete. Orig. brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed, but quite a nice, bright copy.  Scarce.                           $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
First English translation. See Howes A105, who notes that the original Spanish edition of 1848 was suppressed by Santa Anna.

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