Mexican Military Pamphlets

[Mexican Military in the 19th Century: Two Bound Volumes of Scarce Pamphlets]

Notes: Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm.

Volume 1:
1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado. A translation by A. German de la Gándara of A. Guillot-Desbordeliers's Morale Militaire. Matamoros: Tipografía del "Observador", 1870. First Mexican edition (widely published in the Spanish-speaking world in the last half of the 19th century). 92 pages. This edition not in OCLC.

2. Informe sobre el estudio y examen que se ha hecho del fusil de guerra "Lee-Remington" por la comisión del ejército nacional, presidida por el G. General de División Sóstenes Rocha. México: Imp. y Lit. de Ireneo Paz, 1885. vi, chart, folding plate. Not in OCLC.

3. Información racional de combate para la infantería. [México, 1884]. Translated by Miguel Badillo (source not identified). 15 pages; folding plate. Not in OCLC.

4. Apéndice al Curso de fortificación pasajera by A. R. Emy (translated into Spanish). México: Imprenta del "Instituto Monasterio", 1889. 85 pages plus five folding plates. OCLC locates one copy of a 1900 edition.

5. Código nacional mexicano del duelo by Antonio Tovar. México: Imprenta, Lit. y Encuardenación de Ireneo Paz, 1891. xii, [3]–[72, errata]. Portrait of Tovar as frontispiece, inscribed by the author in pencil. OCLC: circa 9 copies.

6. El arte de la guerra: Exposición sumaria para completar la biblioteca de las lecturas populares por A.M. México: Imprenta "El Continente Americano", 1898. vii, 99 pages plus six plates. OCLC locates one copy.

7. Apuntes sobre colonias militares by Juan B. Laurencio. Tacubaya, D.F.: Imprenta y Fotocolografía del "Cosmos", 1893. 73 pages. OCLC locates one copy, on microfilm.

Volume 2:
1. Parte detallado de la batalla que el general Sóstenes Rocha dio a las fuerzas sublevadas, a inmediaciones de Zacatecas el día 2 de marzo de 1872, asaltando las posiciones de los cerros. De la bufa, bolsas y el grillo by Sóstenes Rocha (?). México: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1872. 35 pages, folding map of the battlefield, with blue and red handcoloring. OCLC: 7 copies.

2. Parte detallado de la batalla de la Mohonera, dada el día 28 de enero de 1873 por las fuerzas del supremo gobierno al mando del C. General Ramón Corona contra las de Lozada. México: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1873 by Ramón Corona (?). 19 pages plus folding plan of the battlefield. OCLC: 2 copies.

3. La crónica de la guerra by [Rafael Guerrero]. [Barcelona]: Establecimiento Tipográfico Editorial de Timoteo Susany, [ca. 1894]. About the Margallo War between Spain and Morocco. 320 pages. Many in-text illustrations. OCLC: Widely held.

4. Sinopsis historica, filosofica y politica de las revoluciones mexicanas by Victor José Martínez. México: Imprenta Tipografica, 1884. Second edition, corrected. 95, 151 pages. OCLC: 20-odd copies. The second part of the book is the footnotes, which are half-again as long as the original text.

Edition + Condition: A very good pair in an early 20th century binding of quarter blue calf over blue cloth by Saul A. Alva. A few leaves with tears, but generally very good. All publications bound without wrappers.

Item No: #362606

Price: $1,250