The Mexican War / R.S. Ripley. First edition, 2 volume set / Harper 1849

Description: The War with Mexico (Two volumes)by R.S. RipleyHarper & Bros. (NY, 1849) Two volumes Vol. 1: 524 pp, Vol. 2: 650 pp 6"x8.5". Beautiful presentation quality two volume work by a participant in the Mexican-American War.Half leather over boards, teg, maps; leather spine with gold titling and five raised bands. Condition Notes: Boards show moderate shelf wear to all edges, abrasions to leather at corners and along spine edges. Endpapers: Beautiful faux parchment marbling in condition with ex-library markingsl internak hinges have been professionally reinforced. Vol. 1: Split to guttter at title page, binding firm. Pages lightly foxed and agedm most noticeable at top corner margins of pages. Trimmed? text block edges clean, no foxing. Library markings to top fore edge, spine, front and rear cover sheets, title page and preface page. Has been well-kept; edgewear to boards and light foxing to pages less than usual for volumes of this age. Happy to provide more detail photos. Roswell Sabine Ripley (1823 – 1887) was an officer in the United States Army during the 1846-48 Mexican–American War, and later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was also an author and a prosperous South Carolina businessman. Ripley was born in a small village in Ohio. His family relocated to New York state, where he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy. He graduated in 1843, ranked 7th out of 39 cadets. Other classmates in his year included Ulysses S. Grant, William B. Franklin, Samuel G. French and Franklin Gardner. He was assigned as a second lieutenant to garrison duty, as well as becoming an artillery instructor. Lieut. Ripley served in the Mexican–American War on the staffs of Gen. Zachary Taylor and Gen. Gideon Pillow, and saw action at the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, and the capture of Mexico City. For gallantry in action, Ripley was brevetted captain for Cerro Gordo and major for Chapultepec.

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