Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War: Containing An Account of the Ancient Aztec Empire, The Conquest by Cortes, Mexico Under the Spaniards, The Mexican Revolution, The Republic, The Texan War, and The Recent War with the United States

Bowling Green: J & P Meguiar, 1848. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo. xii, pages 13-640. Illustrated with numerous sketches and drawings and 6 color lithograph plates. No frontispiece. Rebound by the National Library Book Company (no slip). New end sheets. Missing all preliminary pages up to the title page and the original rear end sheets. Pages 627 and 628 are repaired and patched with loss of text. Light to moderate scattered foxing and toning. Stephens Mitchell name written on the newer front end sheet. His bookplate is on the front paste down. No writing inside this book. Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephens Mitchell bookplate on the front paste down. Stephens Mitchell name written on the first blank end paper. Stephens Mitchell (1896-1983) was the son of Eugene Muse Mitchell and Isabel "Maybelle" (Stephens) Mitchell. He was born 1896 in Atlanta. His sister was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. Stephens Mitchell attended the University of Georgia and was a prominent Atlanta attorney, historian, and devout Catholic. He also edited the Atlanta Historical Bulletin. After John Marsh, husband of Margaret, died in 1952 Stephens became the executor of Margaret Mitchell's estate. Stephens Mitchell died in 1983 and the estate was passed on to his two sons Eugene Muse Mitchell II and Joseph Mitchell.