![The Pocket Farrier: A Treatise on the Veterinary Art [1847]. "A Practical Farrier"](/pictures/thumb/16785.jpg?v=1574793183)
1847. "A Practical Farrier." The Pocket Farrier, A Treatise on the Veterinary Art; containing the Materia Medica and Pharmacopoeia. Derby, England: Thomas Richardson and Son 1847 (1st pub. 1844). 324p, 2 engraved pls. Very good hardcover (opening pages including frontispiece and pictorial title page foxed). Rebound in plain cloth. Owner's..... More
1948. Ashoub, Abdel Alim. History of the Royal Agricultural Society's Stud of Authentic Arabian Horses. Cairo: Royal Agricultural Society, Animal-Breeding Section, 1948. 136p + many photos. Good paperbound (covers faded, chipped). Some foxing to the newsprint-like pages. ** Historical text, followed by a list of all the stallions and mares..... More
1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. Ackermann, Arthur & Son. Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings. London, 1986. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Very good paperbound (light shelfwear). ** Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century hunting and racing paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux..... More
1988. Aldin, Armour, Edwards, Holiday, Lyne, Skeaping, Stewart. Ackermann, Arthur & Son. A View from the Saddle. London, 1988. 72p, many ills., many in color. Very good paperbound. Owner's small label on front endpaper. ** Auction catalogue of almost 100 equestrian watercolors, drawings, and bronzes. Chiefly racing and hunting; also..... More
1805. [Act of Parliament]. An Act for Granting to His Majesty Additional Duties in Great Britain on Horses Used in Riding, or for Drawing Certain Carriages [etc.]. [London] March 18, 1805. Pp. [125]-131, headed by British coat of arms; a few charts. Good paperbound, neatly reinforced with paper tape. Can..... More
1767. [Act of Parliament]. An Act to Explain, Amend, and Reduce...the General Laws Now in Being for Regulating the Turnpike Roads of This Kingdom [etc.]. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Pp. 527-559, no ills. except British coat of arms. Good paperbound (removed from a bound volume; occasional small holes). Printed in..... More
No place [San Francisco?]: privately printed, 1978. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. Announcement from Virginia and Ansel Adams in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. It features lines from Wordsworth beginning "I have learned," a brilliant reproduction of Adams's 1927 "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley" with facsimile..... More
1837. Adams, William Bridges. English Pleasure Carriages: Their origin, history, varieties, materials, construction, defects, improvements, and capabilities [etc.] London: Charles Knight 1837. xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Good hardcover (blue-green cloth, spine gilt stamped). Lacks front endpaper; occasional neat penciling. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Terry Clarke. Related material laid..... More
1837. Adams, William Bridges. English Pleasure Carriages: Their origin, history, varieties, materials, construction, defects, improvements, and capabilities [etc.] London: Charles Knight 1837. xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Good hardcover (orange-brown cloth). Covers becoming tender; rear hinge exposed; lightly foxed. Former owner's pencil name: Jay Coogan, Whitehall, Newport, R.I., with..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. First edition. Paperbound. 272p, many ills., some in color. The first major survey of the Surrealist magazine Documents (1929-30), edited by Bataille. It "combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography, and popular cultue." Published in conjunction with the Hayward Gallery exhibition "Undercover Surrealism: Picasso..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. box 15, not 7. First (only) edition. Paperbound. Auction catalogue, March 20-27, 1919. N.p. (2409 lots), a few pls. Covers soiled overall, tear to head of spine. Internally nice and clean. No prices realized. Large dispersal sale of hundreds of reproductions of works of..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. box 15. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. [1037 lots] + over 20 ills. on 8 pls. Covers sunned, minor penciling, tips of backstrip chipped. Covers may loosen. Pages age browned, else internally very good. Important auction catalogue of over a thousand American, English, French, German..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
1920. American Art Galleries. Books and Brochures by and relating to James McNeill Whistler collected by the late Frederick William Hunter. NY, 1920. 171 items, 1 plate. Very good paperbound (shelfsoil). ** Auction catalogue. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Amarillo, TX: AQHA, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 549 pp., no ills. Covers lightly shelf-scuffed, outer pages lightly browned; overall very good and sturdy. No jacket, as issued. Index of all the Quarter Horses registered in the Official Stud Books 1 through 16 (1941 through 1962), registration numbers 1 through 210,000..... More
![Red Cross Membership Week [poster]; December 17 to 24 Join Now. American Red Cross, Paul Brown](/pictures/thumb/14825.jpg?v=1623355338)
No place: [American Red Cross], n.d. [1940s?]. Brown, Paul. First edition. Poster printed in red and green, ca. 14 x 22 inches. Number "28" printed in green in lower left. Dark area is due to shadow, not discoloration. Poster is shrinkwrapped against cardboard, which has creased across the middle. The..... More
1888. An Old Guard, pseud. [L.C.R. Cameron]. The Coach-Horn: What to Blow, and How to Blow It. London: Kohler & Son 1888. 2nd expanded ed. (1st pub. 1879). 23p, a few line ills. + music for coach horn calls. Fair pictorial paperbound (worn, rear cover detached, outer pages foxed). Fragile..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1916. First edition. Stapled paperbound. N.p., 124 lots, 4 plates. Riviere consigned this collection of "valuable books and manuscripts in fine bindings," which included "many important items left with us...by several clients, who, owing to the prevailing conditions in this country wish to dispose of them."..... More
Andrews, Duncan. Tally Ho!: 400 Years of Foxhunting. NY: The Grolier Club 1975. 40p, no ills. Very good paperbound. One of 1000 copies. ** Annotated exhibition catalogue of 100 books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings from the renowed fox hunting collection of the late Mr. Andrews. Can be sent outside the..... More
1878. Angell, George T. Protection of Animals [and] The Thirteenth Annual Reports of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Boston, 1878 and 1881. 16p and 20p, no ills. Fair to good paperbounds (self wrappers): covers foxed or soiled, one is loosening. ** Angell's speech is an..... More
1900. No author. The Harness Makers' Guide. Walsall: Office of "Saddlery and Harness" 1900. 60p (including 2p of ads), several line ills. Poor stapled paperbound: front cover missing, back cover detached and torn, overall worn and soiled. Content is complete. Scarce in any condition; priced accordingly. ** "Containing the lengths..... More
1908. Anonymous. The Horse for Work or Pleasure. London: Vinton, n.d. [ca. 1908]. 74p + 6p of publisher's ads, a few line ills. Good hardcover, no d.j. (as issued?). ** Small manual on "feeding, management, diseases, and accidents"; also chapters on breeds, bits and harness, carriages, shoes and shoeing. (Not..... More
No place: no stated publisher, n.d. [19th century?]. Unbound sheet. I have no idea why, by whom, or for whom, this piece of muleteer humor was made. Probably a piece of amateur printing. One leaf, folded once to make four panels. On the first panel is a hand-colored woodcut (or engraving)..... More
![The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine](/pictures/thumb/14144.jpg?v=1539198007)
Grey, Frank. Anonymous [Laura Valentine]. The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm. London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [early 1880s]. N.p., many color ills. on 36 pls. Pict. cloth, gilt stamped. Rebacked; overall fair (condition details on request). There is a blank leaf (torn) within the last poem, but this is..... More
London: Peter Davies, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. 180p + 38 photos. Fwd. by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Despite being blinded in World War II, Col. Ansell went on to head the British Show-Jumping Association, British Horse Society, and British Equestrian Federation, doing more "than any other single..... More
