MEXICO IN 1827 IN 2 VOLUMES: VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2. by H.G. Ward, Esq. His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in that Country during the Years 1825, 1826, and Part of 1827.

WARD, Henry George (Sir), 1797â "1860).

Edité par Henry Colburn, 1828., London:, 1828

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2 volumes. 8vo. 25 cm. Vol. I: [i-v], vi-xix, [1], [1-3], 4-591, [1]; Vol. II: [i-v], vi-viii, [1-3], 4-730, [2, Colburn ads] pp. 13 plates (5 of which are folding (10 aquatints, 1 with hand coloring, 3 lithographs), 5 wood-engraved figures), tables, 2 folded engraved maps, the second copy of the folding map of Mexico is laid into this copy (this has marginal slight tears), light foxing on plates, not on the map. Contemporary three-quarter dark brown calf, spines textured in blind, marbled sides. Very good copy. FIRST EDITION. Henry Ward was the British charge d'affaires to Mexico in the three years preceding publication. The fine map in the first volume is an important one, including Texas; this was engraved by S. Hall. Plates after original artwork by Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward, who married Sir Henry George Ward on 8 April 1824 while he was between diplomatic appointments to Mexico. After he was made charge d'affaires, they sailed together for Mexico on 8 January 1825 aboard HMS Egeria. Sources: DNB; Sabin 101303; Abbey, Travel, 668; Hill, p. 319. / "The subject [the American Revolution] is one of deep, and universal, interest, for it is upon the duration of the new order of things that the prospects of the rising States depend. The Revolution has affected not only their political, but their commercial, relations with the rest of the world; its influence has extended in their agriculture, and mines so both of which, after threatening them with total annihilation, it has given a fresh impulse, and opened a new, and more extensive field. I have endeavored to trace their operations in Mexico upon each branch of the great interests of the State, but most particularly upon the Mines; the importance of which, both to New Spain and to Europe, it has been one of my principal objects to develope." â "Page iii. / "Official Mexico viewed the able and enthusiastic emissary, minister plenipotentiary for a treaty of amity and commerce, as a symbol of Britain's definitive recognition of Mexican independence. The young minister shared his treaty-making powers with the more experienced and older James Morier, already in Mexico. Ward, only twenty-eight years old in 1825, had served as attache to the British legation at Stockholm from 1816 to 1818, spent a year at The Hague and four years in Madrid, and was appointed to the Mexican commission surveying political conditions in 1823-1824.' On his second visit and after concluding the treaty, Ward would act as Britain's first charge d'affaires in Mexico. His most important role, however, was one over-looked by historians-that of mining publicist. From his pen flowed a steady stream of facts, figures, and foreign reports which piqued the already overwrought imagination of his countrymen, disseminated information about the republic, and contributed substantially to the avalanche of British investment and influence pouring into Mexico." â " Source: N. Ray Gilmore, "Henry George Ward, British Publicist for Mexican Mines." Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Feb., 1963), pp. 35-47. / WARD, SIR HENRY GEORGE (1797â "1860): Sir Henry George Ward was the only son of Robert Plumer Ward (1865-1846; ODNB), novelist and politician, and Catherine Julia Ward, Nee Maling. He was educated at Harrow School, and learned languages abroad. He was appointed attache to Sweden in 1816, The Hague in 1818, and Spain in 1819. He became joint commissioner in Mexico from 1823 to 1824, and charge d'affaires, 1825-27. Between his Mexican appointments, Ward returned to England where, on 8 April 1824, he married Emily Elizabeth Swinburne (1798-1882). They sailed for Mexico in January 1825 and remained there until 1827. Ward's account, Mexico in 1827, appeared in 1828. He contributed letterpress, as well, to a collection of Emily Ward's sketches, Six Views of the Most Important Towns, and Mining Districts â ¦ of Mexico (1829). Ward began his parliamentary career in 1833 as a Liberal, and furthered his agenda as po.

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• Titre: MEXICO IN 1827 IN 2 VOLUMES: VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2. by H.G. Ward, Esq. His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in that Country during the Years 1825, 1826, and Part of 1827.
• Éditeur: Henry Colburn, 1828., London:
• Date de parution: 1828
• Édition: Edition originale