7. [BALLENTINE, George]. Autobiography of an
English Soldier in the United States Army. Comprising
Observations and Adventures in the States and Mexico.
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. xii [9]-288 pp.,
engraved frontispiece and half title (on tinted grounds).
12mo, original green embossed cloth, gilt pictorial spine.
Slightly shelf slanted, light wear to spinal extremities
and corners, upper hinge weak. Contemporary and later
ownership inscriptions.
First
American edition. Clark, Old South III:125: "A
plainspoken account....Before being ordered to Mexico, his
company was stationed in Florida—at Pensacola Bay
during October, 1845, and from then until the end of the
following year, at Tampa." Connor & Faulk, North
America Divided 447. Garrett, The Mexican-American
War, p. 191. Haferkorn, p. 41. Howes B77. Tutorow 3692;
3625n: "Narrative of Scott’s campaign from the
standpoint of an intelligent private soldier." Includes an
account of Walker’s Texas Rangers.
($100-250)