Mulder, Carol June Woodbridge. Imported Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses. Vol. 1: Registration Numbers 1-82. [No publication data, 1991]. Corrected and revised edition (1st pub. 1969). 314p, many photos. Light cover and front endpaper soil; bottom fore-edges lightly stained; overall very good hardcover. No d.j., as issued. No..... More
Mulder, Carol June Woodbridge. Imported Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses. Vol. 2: Registration Numbers 111-326. Los Angeles: Borden 1993. Revised edition (1st pub. 1972). 431p, 183 photos. Very good hardcover; no d.j., as issued. ** Pedigree, history, description, progeny, influence, and photos of these early imports. An exceptional..... More
1901. Mullen, Wm. How to Break, Educate and Handle the Horse for the Uses of Everyday Life [cover reads: Horse Taming]. Chicago: Author 1901. 107p, a few line ills. + several photos. Good hardcover (cover wear and soil) but internally very good and sturdy. Bound in green cloth (copies were..... More
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Buenos Aires: Tallieres Graficos "San Pablo" 1955. Later printing. Soft cover. 56p, many photos (rather grainy) Foxed. Pictorial visitor's guide to this regional museum in Lujan, Argentina. Views of the rooms and grounds, furniture, decorative arts, paintings, etc. With small photos and short captions of ca. 40 carriages and wagons..... More
1892. National Carriage & Harness Retail Dealers' Protective Association. National Carriage & Harness Retail Dealers' Protective Journal. Troy, NY: Journal Pub. Co., July 1892 (vol. 3, no. 2). 74p, many line ills. (several printed in blue, 2 printed with red). Good paperbound (spine reinforced, front cover damp-spotted). ** Official organ..... More
Naudot, Carle (Lou Camarguen). Camargue et Gardians. [France]: Parc Naturel Regional de Camargue 1977. Over 210p, many line ills. and old photos. Good oversized paperbound. In French. ** Detailed look at the Camargue way of life by a leading French folklorist, with much on the white horses of southern France..... More
1995. Nelson, Mark Loge. Bibliography of Old Time Saddlemakers. Palouse, WA: Nelson Pub. Co. 1995. 4th ed. (1st pub. 1992). 98p, no ills. Very good paperbound (plastic comb binding). ** Not a traditional bibliography, but a list of hundreds of "makers of cowboy leather: gun belts, chaps, holsters, saddles, saddlebags..... More
New York: New York Carriage Top Co., 1904. No stated edition. Pamphlet. 36p, many line ills. Covers and outer pages stained; internally very good and clean. Trade catalogue of buggy and other tops, lamps, cushions, leather straps, various bodies and seats,wheels, gears, springs, etc. All described and priced. Also an..... More
1855. No named author. Arabian Horse "Tartar." Front-page article in Drew's Rural Intelligencer (Augusta, ME), Aug. 18, 1855, with a wood-engraved portrait of the horse, "from life." Good paperbound (creased; light age staining). ** Tartar was sired by Imaum, a stallion presented by the Sultan of Muscat to David Pingree..... More
No place: no stated publisher, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 18p, no ills. except on cover. Covers age soiled. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Bostwick Field was on the Jericho Turnpike, Old Westbury, Long Island. The center spread gives the official line-up and score-card for Sunday, June 5, 1938. The..... More
Unpublished: April 1930. Photocopy of a carbon copy of this typewritten list. Unpaged; lists 269 items. Very readable. This inventory was probably prepared by a member of Hutton's staff or an outside art cataloguer. It is divided into Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Coloured Engravings, Cock Fighting, Boxers. In Black [uncolored..... More
No named author. The General Stud Book, containing pedigrees of English race horses, &c.&c. from the earliest accounts to the year 1831, inclusive. Baltimore: J.S. Skinner 1834. viii, 1076p, no ills. Good hardcover (full contemporary leather, rather scraped). Stained, foxed throughout. Owner's name, 1866 (Jas. Grant, Davenport, Iowa). ** "First..... More
London: "Ruff's Gude" (cover reads The Sportsman Office), 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 408p, a few small ills. in ads. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Shelf wear. Outer pages browned; small clipping pasted to title page. Contains nominations for 1888; results of 1887 flat races and steeplechases in Great Britain..... More
New York: Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, 1939. Robert Ball. Second Printing. Hardcover. 25p, several line ills. by Robert Ball. Printed by The Harbor Press. Retains the original colophon page with limitation of 1000 copies. Pictorial boards. Lacks the original glassine jacket. Originally privately printed in England in 1871, this poem..... More
Goshen, IN: Spohn Medical Co., 1935. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 20p, photos throughout. Slight handling wear. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. A pamphlet distributed with compliments of Spohn. The lessons cover gentling, bitting, long lining, voice commands, desensitizing to such frights as a rattling road roller, truck with..... More
1979. Nowicka-Posluszna, Anna. Sierakow: Panstwowe Stado Ogierow 1829-1979. 1979. 128p, over 20 photos + 9 long genealogies. Very good paperbound in good d.j. (rubbed). Laid in: several loose pages of 22 modern color photos of stallions and activities at the stud farm. Main text in Polish; historical summaries and captions..... More
1927. O'Dea, T. The Australian Horse Doctor. Murray Bridge, S.A.: T. O'Dea [ca. 1927]. 65p, many ads for businesses in Adelaide and elsewhere. Very good hardcover (rusted staples). No d.j., as issued. ** Diagnosing and treating many ailments of horses, cattle, and sheep with formulas of oils, herbs, etc.--belladonna, turpentine..... More
Office Regional Agricole de l'Est. Concours Regional de l'Est. Rouen, 1926. 73p, many photos, a few line ills. Good paperbound (covers soiled, chipped; ink stamp of former collection on cover and title page). In French. ** Report on the June 1926 agricultural fair in Chalons-sur-Marne (in the Champagne region of..... More
Paget, Guy, and Lionel Irvine. The Flying Parson and Dick Christian. Leicester: Edgar Backus 1934. xiii, 292p + many pls., 25 in black, white, and red by Charles Simpson. Good hardcover; no d.j. ** The 19th-century hunting lives of the Rev. John Empson of Lincoln ("the flying parson") and the..... More
Fotheringill, George A. Paget, J. Otho, et al. Horses, Guns and Dogs. NY: Longmans, Green 1903. xii, 254p, several line ills. + 4 color pls. Pictorial cloth, gilt stamped, with illustration signed "GAF" (George A. Fotheringill). Light marginal wear; overall a nice bright copy. ** Lively advice for boys on..... More
1932. white box 7. Palin, S.F., manager. Third Annual Indianapolis Speed Sale. Indiana State Fair Grounds, 1931. 232p, no ills. Fair paperbound (soiled, backstrip chipped, taped at base, one page tear neatly mended). Two pages browned from old newspaper clippings about the 1938 Old Glory sales. ** Auction catalogue of..... More
1897. Pelagius [F.J. Morgan]. How to Buy a Horse: With Hints on Shoeing and Stable Management. London: Warne, n.d. [ca. 1897]. "Sixth thousand" (first pub. 189-?). 134p. Good hardcover (back stained, spine browned, neatly mended tear to front endpaper). Pictorial cover stamped in black, brown, and gilt. ** Breezy, humorous..... More
Chicago: Percheron Society of America, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Over 550p + 4 pls. Original half leather. Covers rubbed; short mended tear to front endpaper. Clean and sturdy. Includes registrations 98001 to 11000, through October 31, 1914. Also corrections to previous volumes; indexes of stallions, mares, breeders and importers; reference..... More
Cincinnati: Perkins-Campbell, n.d. [1925]. No stated edition. Paperbound. 351 pp., many line ills. and photos. 72 pages of Western, riding, military, and boys’ saddles. 5 pages of misses’ and ladies’ sidesaddles (English and Western, 2 and 3 horns). 4 pages of ladies’ astride saddles (English and Western). Also bridles, saddle..... More
Perrier, Jacques. L'Epopee du Cadre Noir de Saumur. Paris: Lavauzelle 1992. 109p, many photos and old ills., some in color. Very good hardcover in d.j. In French. ** History of the Cadre Noir and its ecuyers en chef, told in terms of the directorships. Includes portraits of all the ecuyers..... More
