Harrison, Henry W. Battles of the Republic, By Sea and Land, from Lexington to the City of Mexico. Illustrated with One Hundred and Fifty Engravings. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, ca. 1890. Alta Edition. [12064]
Red publisher's cloth decorated in black, gilt title panel to spine, binding is clean and very good with a tiny nick in the cloth on the front fore-edge, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. B/w wood engraving, "General James Clinton's Escape from Fort Clinton" as frontispiece. 450 clean pp. with 150 wood engravings in the text. Tight. Very good. Hardcover.
Copyright date is 1858. The imprint "Porter & Coates" was used from 1867 to 1895. The Alta Edition series ran from 1881 till sometime in the 1890s. This is a very good copy for the type.
The first 160 pages or so cover the period of the American Revolution. Then General Wayne and the Indian battles of the "Northwest," the attack on Tripoli, followed by the War of 1812. The Seminole and Blackhawk wars, and then the war with Mexico (pp. 348-451).
