London: Icon Books, 2020. Bonheur, Rosa. First soft cover edition. Soft cover. 483p, a few ills. + 8p of color ills. Up-to-date biography of the painter of "The Horse Fair." Not an art historical study, but the story of her career and eccentric way of life, set in the context..... More
Vienna: Hartleben, 1884. First (only) edition. Hardcover (original gilt- and blind-stamped cloth, slightly rubbed). 272p (including 3p of publisher's ads), 77 line ills. (8 of them full page plates). In German. Comprehensive guide for owners and breeders of saddle, carriage, and draft horses--their selection, care and management, leg and hoof..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859. Second edition (1st pub. 1850). Hardcover (original red cloth, gilt-stamped). 221p + 32p of publisher's ads and index + 2 engraved pls. Covers worn, stained; spine mended; frontispiece detached; both plates foxed. Anecdotal introduction to many aspects of hunting. A later binding..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Second edition (1st pub. 1848). xx, 218p + 34p of publisher's ads + 1 engraved pl. (heavily foxed). No jacket, as issued. Owner's ink name on endpapers. Sensible, considerate advice on buying, feeding, stabling, and affording horses. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First trade edition. Hardcover. "First edition after the printing of 450 deluxe copies." xxix, 368p + many photos, several folding maps. Engraved bookplate of Otto Jaeger, with designer initials that seem to read N.M. Without the jacket or slipcase. Covers rubbed; spine worn; front..... More
London: Heinemann, [1928]; spine reads 1929. First edition. Hardcover. xxix, 368p + many photos, several folding maps. Pages partly unopened. Without the jacket and slipcase. Title page printed in red and black. From the collection of the Duke of Gloucester, with his armorial bookplate. A beautiful copy of this detailed..... More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1965. First edition. Soft cover. 10p + many ills. on 22 pls. (Bodleian Picture Book, 14). Reproduces many images from medieval manuscripts of farming life--horses and other animals and birds, plowing, planting, harvesting, marketing, tools, etc. With descriptive captions. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, many photos + 3 large fold-out charts. Internally very good, clean, complete. Reprints the Blood-Horse articles on the Kentucky Derby (Chateaugay), Preakness (Candy Spots), and Belmont Stakes (Chateaugay)—the races and the winners’ family histories. Most of the articles are by..... More
Toledo, OH: Milburn Wagon Co. (printed by G.H. Dunston, Buffalo), 1893. Later edition. Soft cover, tied with cord. [8]p, 3 ills. to the poem + line ills. of Milburn Wagon Co.'s branch offices. Back cover shows a bird's-eye view of the firm's Toledo factory. Reprints the popular poem (1st published..... More
Marshall, VA: No stated publisher, n.d. [early 1980s]. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, many photos. Small brochure promoting the French Performance Horse for jumping and eventing. Some pedigrees; photos of leading sires and performers such as Fra Diavolo, Nankin, Aime, Val de Loire, Uriel, etc. Can be sent outside the..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1903, 1909, 1911. First edition. Soft cover (removed from the magazine and stapled into paper covers). Each several pages. The articles are: "Grey Racehorses" by Hughes-Onslow (1911, several photos), "The Starting Gate: With Suggestions" by Sievier (1903, no ills., on mechanical gates), and "At the Gate" by..... More
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 217p + 32p of publisher's ads, over 160 line ills. and charts. Contemporary ink name of a veterinarian or veterinary student at the University of Pennsylvania. "Being a complete treatise on the dentition of the horse, ox, sheep, hog, and dog, and on..... More
Las Vegas, NM: Hutchins, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 35p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos. First annual edition of this price list of over 650 western items that sold at auction in 1996 (High Noon, Engel, Payne, Old West Show, etc.). Divided into spurs, bits, saddles, chaps, saddlebags, cuffs, books and..... More
London: Hutchinson House (late Derby House), n.d. [ca. 1950]. First edition. Soft cover. 100p (563 entries), no ills. except for cover picture. Cover wear and soil; front cover is loose. Some correction slips tipped in. Occasional pencil notes on the works by someone who was viewing them at the time..... More
London: Grange Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 224p, many photos and line ills. Using a new translation of Arrian's military manual, Hyland describes Roman parade-ground training exercises (lance-throwing, close-order fighting, various galloping patterns, etc.). Many of them resemble today's games or movements, and she describes how she reconstructed and tried..... More
Chicago: International Live Stock Exposition, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 343p. With a frontispiece showing the exposition buildings at the Union Stock Yards, and several ills. in the many ads, but no pictures of animals. Hundreds of classes and thousands of entries overall There were 119 classes for horses, with..... More
Chicago: 1908. First edition. Soft cover. 46p (86 lots), a few photos. Auction catalogue, December 2, 1908, of "the greatest sale of Shetland Ponies in point of quality and numbers ever held in America," held under the auspices of the American Shetland Pony Club, at the height of the pony..... More
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N.p. International News Press, n.d. [1929-1932]. No stated edition. Unbound photograph. Original glossy photo, ca. 6 x 8 inches. Grease-pencil crop marks on front. Newspaper tear sheet with caption mounted on back; back also has partial International News Photos stamp, pencil notes, and a torn form that hints the photo..... More
Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1893. First edition. Soft cover. 29p + 2 photos. Descriptions of the Orloff Trotter, Orloff Saddle Horse, Russian-Arab Horse, and Russian Light Draft Horse (Bitiug). Followed by descriptions and pedigrees of the 19 horses of these breeds exhibited by Russia at the Chicago World's Fair (chiefly..... More
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Tallin, Estonia: Eesti Raamat, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, several drawings + ca. 18 photos of Russian Olympic jumping and dressage riders. In Russian. History of Soviet participation in the equestrian Olympics, published under the auspices of the Union of Sports Organizations of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The..... More
Leipzig: Grunow, 1872. First edition. Hardcover (marbled boards; original wrappers bound in). 2 vols., totaling over 900p. No ills. Owner's ink name. Old German library ink stamp. In German. First edition of this very detailed scholarly "cultural history" of the horse in German life, language, legend, and history. (Wells 4028)..... More
Portland, ME: James Bailey Company, 1909. No stated edition. Soft cover. 176p, hundreds of line ills. Covers loose. First page dampstained red from inside cover. An interesting assortment of goods from the "largest stock of general saddlery goods in New England." The firm (established 1846) had two shops in Portland..... More
New York: James Cummins, 2016. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, many color ills. Antiquarian bookseller's lavish catalogue of 80 rare books, prints, and manuscripts about foxhunting, racing, coaching, and other equestrian sport; also angling, field sports. sailing, etc.. Includes Derrydale Presss archival material. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
San Francisco: California Horse Lovers' Association, February-March 1946. James, Will; T. Edgar Johnston. First edition of magazine. Soft cover. One ill. by James in the story. 36p in the magazine, many ills. and ads, with a Western focus. Covers are chipped, torn, and lightly stained, as shown. Cover art shows..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3rd ed. (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (new full leather, gilt stamped). 316p + 4p of publisher's ads, no ills. Owner's blind stamp on half title page. Volume 2 of Kitchiner's 2-volume Traveller's Oracle, complete in itself. Volume 1 covered hints to travelers--what to take with you..... More
