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John Howell Books, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Folio, hardcover. No dj. Good condition. Old moisture marking to bottom edge of covers and textblock. Contents free of writing or marking. Binding square and tight. 115 pp. text, illustrations. Foldout maps at rear.

J. Howell, 1966. Hardcover.

San Francisco, Calif.: John Howell Books, [n.d.]. Prospectus. 8vo. One folded sheet. [This is a prospectus, not a book]. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited by John Galvin.

San Francisco, CA: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for John Howell-Books, 1966. original beige decorated cloth. Americana. folio. original beige decorated cloth. (xii) 116 pages, 14 colored plates, 2 plans, 2 folding maps, text illustrations. Handsome reprint of Abert's diary published by Congress in 1848, one of the earliest American publications relating to the newly acquired Territory of New Mexico, with the first printing of Abert's watercolor sketchbook. Field 4. Howes All. Pilling 3 (Cheyenne vocabulary). Plaines & Rockies 120. Radar 3344. Raines, p. 1: "Canadian Valley of Texas was part of the region traversed and described." Rittenhouse 2: "A basic Santa Fe Trail document." From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

John Howell. Used - Very Good. 1966. Small folio. Cloth, 116 pp., illus., folding maps. A nice copy.. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)

San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1966. Edited by John Galvin. 116p., fold-out maps, colored illus., large quarto, original cloth.

San Francisco: John Howell 1966. (Folio) 116pp. Very good plus. Frontispiece, illus., maps. Mylar wrap slightly torn. Fold-out maps. Illustrations in colour from the author's sketchbooks. Limited to 3000 copies..

ABERT, Lt. J.W. Western America in 1846-1847. The Original Travel Diary of...Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army. Edited by John Galvin. [San Francisco]: John Howell Books, 1966. Folio. Many illus. in full color by the author. two large fold-out maps. 116pp. Fine in orig. cloth.

Full tan cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, Corps of Topographical Engineers decoration on front cover. 116 pages, illustrations in color and black and white, from author's sketchbook, 2 folding maps at rear. A large, folio size book. One of 3000 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Lieutenant Abert mapped New Mexico for the United States Army. Small bump to top corner of front board, hence NF grade. In fine clear acetate dust jacket.