Devonport, UK: A.H. Swiss, n.d. [ca. 1892-93]. No stated edition. Pictorial boards (worn). Folding engraved color map, ca. 40 x 32 inches when opened. Mounted on linen within covers. Splits at the many of the fold creases are professionally mended and stablilized. At a scale of one-half inch to one..... More
[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 #32951 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Price list laid in. Scan is too yellow. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Pollard, Alken, and more, including a wonderful..... More
![Item #31979 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1988]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710799789)
London: Ackermann, 1988. Sartorius, Pollard, Aldin, Alken, Marshall, Cooper. First edition. Soft cover. 91p (51 items), 51 color ills., 2 folding. Price list laid in. Two small ills. by Alfred Wheeler have been cut out (three foxhounds and a Norwich terrier), not affecting the other side of the page. Exhibition..... More
![Item #32952 An Exhibition of Fine English Sporting Paintings and Engravings [1979]. Arthur...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1979. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 72p (73 entries), many ills., a few in color. Laid in: pencil list of some prices, perhaps what the writer intended to bid. Introd. by Stella A. Walker. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Henderson..... 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=1630954873)
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
London: Printed by M. Ritchie for the Author, October 1799. Sartorius. First edition. Hardcover (old full polished leather, new leather spine label). 196p + 9 line plates (including frontispece portrait and 4 folding plates), some by Sartorius. This one-volume work preceded the 1805 3-volume edition. Chiefly detailed descriptions of manege..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1980. First edition. Soft cover. 148p, ca. 200 ills., 1 in color. Scholarly chapters by James S. Hutchins, John C. Ewers, Ann Nelson, et al., on the development of the western stock saddle. The topics include historical prototypes, Mexican origins, post-Civil War cowboy development, related Plains..... More
New York: The New Yorker, 1936. Alajalov, Constantin. First edition. Unbound, removed from magazine. Original cover. Matted in shrinkwrap. Overall ca. 16 x 20 inches, image ca. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. Not examined under the mat. A dapper gent oprepares for a drive, overseen by the horse Eleanor and..... More
![Item #32086 Arconnerie general civile & militaire [saddletrees]. Ancienne Maison Fournier, now...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32086.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733851528)
St. Sulpice-La-Pointe (Tarn), France: Albert & Cie. n.d. [1887 or later]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 146 small lithographs of saddletrees. Captions in French, English, Spanish, and German; no other text. Trade catalogue of saddletrees "en tous genres" for sale and for export. All kinds of trees for saddles..... 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
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
![Item #14825 Red Cross Membership Week [poster]; December 17 to 24 Join Now. American Red Cross,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14825.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1623354981)
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. The illustration, credited to Paul Brown, shows Santa Claus dropped out in white within the Red Cross symbol. Below the..... More
Des Moines. IA: Mills Publishing Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover (original pebbled cloth). Over 714p, no ills. "Containing complete alphabetical lists, with condensed pedigrees of all standard stallions, standard mares, geldings, and non-standard animals, with an appendix containing a numerical list of standard stallions; the trotting rules and regulations; the..... More
![Item #31256 Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing in 1929 [complete vol. 42], and Wallace's...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31256.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1672745848)
Goshen, NY: American Trotting Register Association, 1929, 1930. First edition. Hardcover (leather). Part 1: 520p. Part 2: 310p. Bound at the end of Part 2 is Volume 26 of Wallace's American Trotting Register (1930) 104p. No ills. No jacket, as issued. Part 1 of the Year Book includes race summaries..... More
Best, Holland: Best Communication Management, 1994. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 504p, hundreds of photos, many in color, and many ads. No jacket, as issued. In English, French, and German. The poor photo doesn't do justice to the excellent condition of this book. 50th-anniversary edition of this lavish yearbook of..... More
![Item #32001 [Chevaux de Courses, No. 5]. Charles Ancelin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716236283)
[Paris: Galerie Lutetia], n.d. [ca. 1925-30]. Ancelin, Charles. First edition. Unbound sheet, matted in shrinkwrap. Color pochoir (screenprint). Overall ca. 23 x 16 inches, image ca. 19 x 12 1/2 inches. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under the mat). Signed in the plate. Reflection and shadow on right side of..... More
N.p. n.d. [1930s?]. Anderson, C.W. Limited edition. Unbound. Original drypoint etching. Image is ca. 13 1/2 x 10 inches, on sheet ca. 19 x 15 inches. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by Anderson. A farrier waits in his deserted forge for customers who no longer come. An evocative and..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 95p + 52p of publisher's ads, no ills. No jacket, probably as issued. With the armorial bookplate of Archibald Rogers. The only edition of Anderson's first horsemanship book. He advocates manege work, as taught to him by Joseph Merklen of the French Cavalry..... More
![Item #30821 [Advertising Chromolithograph for Fleischmann Yeast]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30821.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646682764)
N.p. [Fleischmann & Co.], n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Ca. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed on card stock. Cut down from a larger size, with loss of frame. Lower left corner is creased, old flyspecks along right edge. Removed from an album (glue traces on..... More
![Item #31875 [Announcement Card for a Jerez Horse Show]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705362596)
[Jerez, Spain]: No stated publisher, [1929]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed card showing a spirited Arabian horse. Ca. 5 1/2 x 4 inches. The back of the card reads: "En Jerez de la Frontera se celebrara el Concurso Equino de la Exposicion Ibero-Americana en Abril de 1929." Jerez is..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Printed on lightweight card stock, ca. 11 x 7 inches. On the back is a mounted reproduction of a picture titled "The Music Lesson." Age rubbed but crisp. Pin-pricks in corners. Decorastive advertisement for a veterinary remedy showing..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [501]-507, 1 photo. Removed from the Badminton Magazine, volume 28, 1904, and stapled within paper covers. Tears to inside margins but still soundly stapled. A humorous account of a lady's (mis)adventures with wagering. Presented in the guise of an amateur letter..... More
