Search Results: Authors starting with W from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

Original Watercolours of Plants, Including American
Small folio; contemp. half calf (with title on spine "drawings of plants"). Small folio.On front pastedown: "M.H. Speirs 1820.
Beautiful album with 53 high-quality original watercolour drawings, mostly with flower names in English or Latin and mainly dated from 1812 to April 1817. - 2 plates folded in the margins. Slightly foxed. Contemporary half leather, spine rubbed.

Predominantly with flower names in English and Latin and Format ca. 14-24: 10-17 cm; on firm paper chamois, format ca. 28 : 18 cm. Illustrations of lilies and aloe as well as numerous American flowers "Virginian Dragonhead", "American Atragen", "Virginian Platonica" and many more "Chinese Epidendrum".

Tactica de Caballeria Escrita para Su Uso, y Dedicada al Exercito Megicano.
iv,44,46pp., plus two engraved plates. 20th-century vellum boards, printed front cover. Vellum taut, somewhat bowing boards and stiffening hinges. Light tanning and foxing internally. About very good.
This scarce military manual was issued shortly after Mexico won its independence in 1821, but still faced efforts by Spain to recapture its lost territory. Indeed, in 1823 when the present work was published, Veracruz was being periodically bombarded from the fortress of San Juan de Ulua, still under the control of the Spanish, at the mouth of the city's harbor. The authorship of this British-printed cavalry manual for Mexican use is ascribed to the Scottish soldier of fortune Arthur Goodall Wavell, who had served as a general in the armies of independence in Chile and Mexico. Later, Wavell assisted Stephen F. Austin in Mexico in obtaining his Texas colonization rights, and failed in several attempts to organize a British Texas… Read More