[Mexico]. [Independence]

Carta Cuentos a Mi Amigo el Publico [caption title]

Mexico City: Mariano Ontiveros, 1821. [4]pp., on a half-sheet bifolium. Disbound from a sammelband. Minor dampstaining and wear at edges. Very good. Item #2753

A brief series of parables on the dangers of a large standing army, and the dangers that its existence might bring about during periods of political instability. Cranes, rats, and cheese; a Gypsy, and horse, and a cat; and a convent of mixed religious orders are all invoked to argue that the size and heterogeneous command of the Mexican army that grew out the independence movement ought to be reduced. Anonymous, but signed "Wagcinton Napoleon" [sic] above the colophon. An interesting example of pamphleteering in Mexico in the period immediately after independence, and the exchange of thought in print concerning the organization and operation of the new government. Scarce; OCLC locates only two copies in U.S. institutions, at Yale and Texas A&M.

Price: $750.00