Mexico in 1827. By H. G. Ward, Esq. His Majesty's Charge D'Affaires in That Country During the years 1825, 1826, and part of 1827.

Mexico in 1827. By H. G. Ward, Esq. His Majesty's Charge D'Affaires in That Country During the years 1825, 1826, and part of 1827. With an Account of The Mining Companies, and The political Events in That Republic, to The Present Day. Second Edition, Enlarged.

Author: Ward, H. G.

8vo (5.5" x 8.875") 1829. 2 volumes. Ward, H. G. London: Henry Colburn. half brown leather with corners, fancy blind stamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author/title on gilt bordered red leather in the second compartment, gilt vol# on gilt bordered red leather in the fourth, large faded gilt floral devices with gilt frames to all others. Corners bumped and rubbed with minor loss. Covers rubbed, wear to extremities. Green endpapers, bookplate of Leonard Fager Curtis to front pastedowns. Folding frontispieces to each volume, large folding maps at rear of each volume, multiple plates throughout, including a hand colored plate of Interior of Indian Hut, El Bozal. All plates/maps accounted for. Closed tears to folds of both maps. Minor sympathetic restoration detected.

From Wiki: Sir Henry George Ward GCMG (27 February 1797 – 2 August 1860) was an English diplomat, politician, and colonial administrator. He was appointed joint commissioner to Mexico in October 1823, and returned to England in 1824 and he married Emily Elizabeth Swinburne in London on 8 April. Emily was the daughter of Emma Bennett and Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet. The Wards went together to Mexico in 1825, as chargé d'affaires, and two daughters were born there: Francess Guadalupe Filpe Maria Ward Butler (1825–1913) and Georgina Katherine Petronilla Ward (1826–1902). During this time, Emily Ward kept a notebook with sketches of their journey in Mexico, publishing them as illustrations in her husband's future book and also travel writings under her own name. Ward published two books about Mexico, illustrated by his wife. In Mexico in 1827 (1828) he tried to present a balanced view of the prospects for the country, formally independent from Spain in 1821. He gave an analysis of Mexico's mines, and was rather negative about the competence of William Bullock who had a mining concession from the Mexican government. He was also critical of attempts to finance pearl diving.

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