[Upperville, VA: Ayrshire Farm, 2004]. Privately printed. Hardcover (full tooled leather, blind- and gilt-stamped). 290p, over 160 photos and line ills. Presentation from editor Sandy Lerner, 2009. Owner's blindstamp. Translation of the 1999 edition of Anspannen und Fahren, ed. by Sandy Lerner. Reprints ads from the original 1922 German edition..... More
![Item #16652 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973445)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century hunting and racing paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, and more, including a wonderful 18th-century hunting party by Judith Lewis. Also..... More
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan [printers], March 18, 1805. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [125]-131, headed by British coat of arms; a few charts. Good paperbound, neatly reinforced with paper tape. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. New tax rates for hiring..... More
London: Mark Baskett [printer], 1767. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 527-559, no ills. except British coat of arms. Printed in black letter. The act was passed in several sessions of Parliament from May 19, 1761, to November 11, 1766, in the reign of George III. Covers many subjects, such as..... More
![Item #30420 Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes [12 of 16 leaves]. Albert Adam, Albrecht](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30420.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973582)
Paris: Hautecoeur Freres; lithographed by Godard. n.d. [ca. 1860]. Adam, Albert. No stated edition. Unbound sheets. Dozens of humorous equestrian escapades are shown in color lithographs on 12 (of 16) original leaves. Each leaf contains two sets of scenes, for a total of 24 (of 32) scenes. Lacks title page..... More
No place [San Francisco?]: Privately printed, 1978. Adams, Ansel. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. 9 x 12 inches, folded. Edges worn and soiled. Not yellowed as the photo seems to show. The reproduction is fine. Printed on coated stock by Pacific Lithograph Company, supervised by George Waters (Adams's longtime printer)..... More
![Item #16494 English Pleasure Carriages [1837, with extra material]; Their Origin, History,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16494.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973440)
London: Charles Knight, 1837. First edition. Hardcover (blue-green cloth, spine gilt stamped). xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Terry Clarke. Related material laid in, including two small ink drawings of carriages. Bookseller ticket of S.W. Fores. The first edition of this important book on the principles..... More
Paris: Albert Besombes, n.d. [1930s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, several pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of 310 items, with many bindings. The color plate is an 18th-century mosaic binding. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Buffalo: Hallwells Contemporary Arts Center, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 28p + 13 plates, bound dos-a-dos. Designed by Buzz Spector. Exhibition catalogue of ca. 40 books by "emerging and mid-career" artists: Nayland Blake, John Boskovich, David Carrino, Andrew Masullo, Tim Maul, Maria Porges, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Smith, Buzz..... More
Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #31542 Eikoh Hosoe [Untitled 42]. James Alinder, ed., Ronald J. Hill](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684786984)
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1986. Eikoh Hosoe. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 31 plates and 3 small photos. The photos, from 1959 on, are grouped by theme: Man and Woman, Barakei, Kamaitachi, Embrace, Shifukei (Simon: A Private Landscape), Portraits and Workshops, and Architecture by Antonio Gaudi. Published as..... More
Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Unbound cards. Nine chromolithographed cards of Thoroughbreds and jockeys. Glued to index cards, with some damage and staining. The horses are named—Terra Cotta, The Lion, Geraldine, Little Minch, The Tray, Geo. Oyster, Connemara, Firenze, and Favor, who all raced..... More
N.p. [Friends of Greer Allen], 2005. Privately Printed. Soft cover. 32p, many photos, some in color. Greer Allen was a legendary book designer and University Printer to Yale University. As a young man he worked on the racetrack and rode steeplechasers for 5 years until his printing firm-employer ordered him..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More
London: Arts Council, 1965. Roberts, William. First edition. Soft cover. 30p + 23 plates. Catalogue of 212 works, shown at several locations in London, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Manchester. One painting recreates "The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring 1915," with Frederick Etchells holding the first issue..... More
Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. 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 art as well as..... 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
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several plates. Auction catalogue of 132 lots, held on February 17, 1920; unpriced. Books, manuscripts, and association copies by or relating to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Clemens, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Swift, Thoreau, etc. Foley was a longtime Boston..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers, in rubbed but sturdy slipcase). [Ca. 200]p, many ills. From the library of painter Stanley Marc Wright, with his bold ink stamp on both sides of the slipcase. Auction catalogue of 259 American, German, French, Danish, and other..... 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
Amarillo, TX: AQHA, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Ca. 500p, many photos within the registry and in the ads. No jacket, as issued. Permanent and tentative registration numbers 12,001 to 27,000, listed by horse's name and by number. With corrections to previous volumes. Many photos of foundation and other old-time Quarter..... More
