abert lieutenant (13 resultados)

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. First Bison Books Printing. 121 pages. Exploring America.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bison Books, Lincoln, NE. 1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Bison Books Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small crease on lower front wrap; small soil spot on fore edge. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 121 pp 8vo. Setting out in 1845 from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance Abert recorded in detailed descriptions the country, flora, fauna, and Indian Tribes. His orders had him exploring the Canadian River region of the Great Plains for four-months by mule train. A clean pristine copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Folio. Illustrated with color plates; maps. Condition: nicking & chipping to top edge of DJ which is also toned; else fine in good DJ. Pages: xvii, 77.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Folio bound in cream-colored cloth. Color illustrations; B&W maps. Condition: slight soiling to binding; else near fine. 77 pages.

Condición: Good. Prospectus. 8vo. One folded sheet. [This is a prospectus, not a book]. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited by John Galvin.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Natural cloth gilt, DW, folio., xi, (vii), 77 pages, illustrated in color by the author and with two folding maps. A very near fine, clean copy in a fine, bright and unworn DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Magnificent folio (coffee table) size book. Original dust jacket is present but has some chipping and has been taped on the inside. Beautiful archive quality creme colored paper. Color lithographs throughout this 77 pp. hardbound book. Through the Country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the Year 1845. The Journal of the U.S. Army Expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers. Artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and Their Wild West illustrate this book. Edited by John Galvin. Published by John Howell Book, 1970. Only 500 first edition copies printed. This is one of them. BR (Box 191).

HardBack. Condición: Good. First edition of fine-press publication, 5000 copies. Tall (35cm x 26cm) beige cloth with gilt embossed title on cover. Complete with two fold-out maps.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Edited by John Galvin and has his bold signature on the title page. Contains illustrations from Abert's sketchbook. Limited to 3000 copies. Fold-out maps. Glassine DJ,chipped. Rittenhouse considered this "One of the largest and most lavish books about the Santa Fe Trail.It includes his travel diary from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe and return. Contains many comments on the SFT found in no other published Abert report." Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Copies signed by Galvin are scarce. Signed By Editor.

In-folio (36 x 26 cm), 6 ff., 116 pp., 1 f., pleine toile éditeur illustrée, jaquette rhodoid. Publisher's cloth, rhodoid jacket, mint copy. Bel ouvrage, illustré de 15 planches hors-texte en couleurs et 2 cartes dépliantes. Tirage à 3000 exemplaires. Parfait état.

In-folio (36 x 26 cm), XI pp., 3 ff., 77 pp., pleine toile éditeur, jaquette illustrée. Publisher's cloth, jacket, mint copy. Bel ouvrage, illustré de 24 planches hors-texte en couleurs et 2 cartes dépliantes. Tirage à 5000 exemplaires. Parfait état.

[NEW MEXICO]. First edition. 8vo. Senate Executive Document No. 23, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Red cloth, 132 pp., [blank], plus 24 full-page, lithograph plates and a large folding map. Raines page 1 says, "The Canadian valley of Texas was part of the region traversed and described." The report provides much of life among the Indians, plus examination of the country from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe with descriptions of flora and fauna, Mexican customs, Mexican ruins, and several pages of Indian nouns and verbs. Rittenhouse 2 says ". describes his trip from Fort Leavenworth over the SFT via Bent's Fort, his survey of the northern part of New Mexico, and his return trip over the Trail." Very fragile front wrapper detached, but present. Wear to spine ends corners, and extremities, margins of some interior pages are lightly chipped not affecting the print, a very old water stain to the top page edges not affecting the print, some light foxing throughout, interior pages are clean, and large folding map is very good with minor to light wear at a few fold creases. A solid good copy housed in a cloth clamshell case with a red leather spine label and titles stamped in gilt.

Artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and Their Wild West illustrate this book. Edited by John Galvin. Pp. xviii+78(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 21 plates, 2 illustrations printed in red, 3 black & white maps (one full, others double page), the title page printed in red, blue & black, glossary, references, index; super roy. 4to; cream cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge of boards a trifle soiled; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and browned, edges torn and split, with several tape repairs or marks on reverse; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; John Howell-Books, San Francisco, 1970. *Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. James William Abert (1820-1897) was an American explorer, soldier, bird collector and artist who joined the Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1843. He took part in several expeditions into the west, including Fremont's third exploring expedition, which reached Bent's Fort on the 2nd of August, 1845.