![Eighteenth & Nineteenth Continental Furniture Porcelain Prints & Paintings [etc.]; Property of...](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1970. First edition. 88p (461 lots), many black-and-white ills. Covers age-yellowed. No realized prices. A two-day sale that also included a Regency games table, seat furniture, cut glass, clocks, and other decorative objects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978. Kahlo, Frida. First edition. 28p, many ills., 2 in color. Covers scuffed; internally very good. "The first American exhibition of paintings by Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist whose haunting images and remarkable career are not well-known in the United States." The show traveled to..... More
No place: Architectural Publications; distributed by University of Chicago Press, 1983. Second (revised) edition. Paperbound. N.p., many line ills and photos. Stain and dent to front cover. Catalogue of a rich exhibition of dozens of important architecture books from Columbia, Yale, and the University of Virginia. Many entries by a...... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
New York: John H. Wallace, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Pages 481-1152, many line ills. Rebound in half leather (scuffed), part of cloth pulled away. The original covers are not bound in, but all the ads are included. Clean, complete, sturdy. Previous owner’s name of W.H.M. Sistare on front endpaper. Essential..... More
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1870. Hardcover (paper-covered boards). 208 pp., a few line ills. + 2 line pls. (diseases of the horse, and the internal organs). Some publisher’s ads. This book bears witness to the hard use, or poor care, that 19th-century farriery, taming, and veterinary manuals got..... More
Paris: Honore Champion, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 974p + 50 pls. No d.j., as issued. In French. Detailed scholarly analysis of the horse in Germanic belief from pre-Christianity to the end of the Middle Ages. Examines phemonology, folklore, religion (pagan and Christian), superstition, rituals and other practices, literature, and much..... More
![The Blood-Horse: September 27, 1952 [Native Dancer, Whirlaway]. authors](/pictures/thumb/30083.jpg?v=1617908283)
Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, 1952. First edition. Paperbound. Pages 651-686, several photos. Covers soiled and creased, mostly detached (partly held on with yellowing tape). Internally very good, clean, complete. Cover shows Allen F. Brewer drawing of Greek Ship. Articles on recent fire at Belmont Park by Joe H. Palmer, training..... More
St. Louis: Jacob Straus Saddlery Co., n.d. [1895]. "Latest edition" Hardcover. 238p, over 200 line ills. Ca. 160 pages of a wide variety of saddles, each one with a full-page picture and description. Stained, as shown in photo. Shaken (open pages loose and worn at edges). Penciling on front endpapers..... More
![Catalogue 55 [1948]. Miller's Harness Co](/pictures/thumb/30081.jpg?v=1617817442)
New York: Miller's Harness Co., 1948. First edition. Paperbound. 64p, many line ills. and photos. Covers stained and smudged; internally very good. With unused order blank and envelope laid in. Ca. 7 x 10 inches. Wide variety of vintage equestrian goods from this famous New York saddlery company. General riding..... More
New York: Crothers and Korth, 1893. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 2 ills. on covers. Covers stained, restitched. True story, for children, of two Kentucky Claybank horses that conveyed their pastor-owner on his missionary visits among the Oneida Indians in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Told partly in Nelly's voice. Proceeds from the..... More
Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled, creased. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the 17th century by the Nuns of Little Gidding). Can be..... More
Little Neck, NY: Ramborn Corp. (printed in Sweden), n.d. [1945]. Seagren, Ana Mae. First edition. Hardcover. [20]p, many large color plates by Ana Mae Seagren. Pictorial boards, cloth spine. Covers smudged, corners lightly bumped, light dampstain to lower corner of inside and outside front cover and lower corner of title..... More
![Domberger Siebdruck Kalendar [1972, original screen prints]; "Internationale Zeitgenossiche...](/pictures/thumb/30073.jpg?v=1617973022)
No place (West Germany): Domberger Siebdruck, [1971]. First edition. Wall calendar for 1972, featuring 13 large vibrant silkscreens by artists who had previously used the firm's serigraph printing services. Front cover and its acetate overlay, which is part of the work by Kapitzski, are creased at lower right corner; acetate..... More
London: Sotheby & Co., 1973. First edition. Paperbound. 108p (42 lots), many plates, several in color. Spine faded. The first of four parts of this landmark series of sales, complete in itself. Many masterpieces by Stubbs, Ferneley, Seymour, Marshall, Pollard, Herring, Alken, Ward, etc. Racing, hunting, driving, portraits of horses..... More
East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred Co., 1978. Jacoulet, Paul. First edition. Paperbound. 155 lots, all illustrated; color cover. Covers rubbed; some lot numbers circled in red ink; two small pieces of tape in one margin. Overall nice and clean. Estate auction catalogue of Jacoulet's delicate woodblock figurative prints in..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
Vienna: Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1986. First edition. N.p., 30 black-and-white ills. mostly full-page pls. Cover handling soil. In German. Exhibition catalogue of 88 Baroque sumptuous book bindings and book illustrations from the museum's library. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
London: Simon Capstick-Dale Fine Art, 1998. First edition. Paperbound. [30]p, 8 color pls. Tipped-in gallery invitation serves also as the frontispiece. Covers partly lightly sunned; a few spots of ink on front cover. Introd. by Glazebrook; extract from an essay "From Barbarism to Decadence" by Loftis. Female nudes in various..... More
Reno, NV: Western Horseman, 1945. First edition. Paperbound. July-August, September-October, and November-December. Each 48 to 72 pages, many photos and ads. Covers soiled, coming off. A little light dampstaining. Complete. Articles on Davenport vs. Blunt Arabians (a discussion of Lady Wentworth’s books by Carl R. Raswan), Palominos, trail rides, all-girl..... More
New Britain, CT: n.d. [1880s-90s?]. First edition. One sheet, printed on one side. Ca. 6 x 11 inches. Light edge wear including one short closed tear, light handling wear and soil. In this flyer the company is looking for sales agents for these bells—“any man who has any appreciation of..... More
1979. Tiffany. Paperbound. Reynolds, Gary A. Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings. NY: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, 1979. 64p, ca. 40 ills., several in color. Covers foxed. Laid in: sheet of introductory text plus list of decorative objects lent for the exhibition. ** The first study of Tiffany's..... More
1981. Rockburne, Dorothea. Paperbound. Xavier Fourcade [gallery]. Dorothea Rockburne: Egyptian Paintings and Wall Angels. NY, 1981. [16]p, many large black-and-white pls. No text. Very good paperbound (covers foxed). Owner's neat ink stamp on title page. Exhibition announcement laid in. The portrait photograph of Rockburne is by Jan Groover. ** Mathematically..... More
1950. Brichta, Yela. One sheet, folded twice, making 6 panels. Charles Barzansky Galleries, NY. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Yela Brichta. N.d. [1950]. 1 ill. on front panel. Text by Harry G. Cayley of NYU. Handling wear and soil; short German-language newspaper review stapled in. ** With checklists of..... More
1965. Maniquant, Sooky. Paperbound. Galy-Charles, Henry, et al. Sooky Maniquant. Madrid, 1965. [16]p, 7 large pls. + 2 mounted color pls. + 2 cover ills. Additional text by Carlos-Antonio Arean. Covers soiled, handling wear; ex-lib. with label on front cover; no internal marks. In Spanish. One of 1000 copies. **..... More
