Blankenese, Germany: Friedrich Becker, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. xii + 173p (including 38p index), no ills. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English and German. No jacket, as issued. Very sturdy; a much better copy than is often found. The second and..... More
Hamburg: F.W. Rademacher, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. 112p + 3p errata + 32p index, no ills. Last few bottom corners damp-rubbed but no loss of content. Outer pages lightly foxed. Title page upper corner creased. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English..... More
![Item #31267 [Real photo postcard of Della Adelaide Brigham Follette riding astride]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/31267.jpg?v=1673961744)
N.p. [United States]: No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1913]. No stated edition. Postcard. The subject's name and the year 1913 are written in ink on the back. RPPC on CYKO paper. A curious image. Della Follette wears a tight-fitting jacket and riding hat and what seem to be trousers that..... More
London: Corgi Books, 1996, 1998. Peyton, K.M. Reprint editions (1st pub. 1995, 1998). Soft cover. Variously paged, each with several ills. by the author. The complete Swallow trilogy about Rowan and her reckless spirited bay pony, Swallow. For middle-school or tween readers, but can be enjoyed by oldsters, too. "There..... More
London: Crane Kalman Gallery, n.d. [probably early 1970s]. Revised edition [1st pub. probably late 1960s]. Soft cover. [28]p, 27 ills. (most in color). Laid in: sheet identifying the changes and corrections made to this edition, which was printed "some five or six years" after the first edition. Ex-university library, with..... More
Wellsville, NY: E.D. Goodrich [printer], n.d. [ca. 1840-1850]. No stated edition. Soft cover (original wrappers). [42]p, 1 ill. on cover. Covers stained and torn; some old worming to last few pages, not affecting content; some dogearing. Veterinary recipe written in pencil on last page. "A new and complete practical system..... 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
New York: Sotheby's, 1990. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, Dec. 11, 1990. 350 lots, many ills., a few in color. One of the great equestrian libraries of our time, with a few dozen early books, manuscripts, and prints on horsemanship and hunting. Also many works of literature, travel, history, etc. A...... More
![Item #31258 The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or, Modern System of Farriery [etc.] [1796]....](/pictures/thumb/31258.jpg?v=1672745886)
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, and G. Kearsley, 1796. 13th edition (1st pub. 1788). Hardcover (new half leather, marbled boards, marbled fore-edges, gilt-tooled spine). xvi, 512p + engraved frontispiece portrait of Taplin. Complete in one volume. Owner's ink name, 1809. A very popular work on ailments of horses..... More
![Item #31256 Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing in 1929 [complete vol. 42], and Wallace's...](/pictures/thumb/31256.jpg?v=1672745885)
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
London: John Murray, 2017. First softcover edition. Soft cover. 426p + several ills., some in color. "Ninety-five percent of all thoroughbreds today are descended from one horse--Mr Darley's Arabian. Award-winning racing writer Christopher McGrath traces the extraordinary bloodline through three centuries of scandals, adventures and fortunes"--from Flying Childers, Eclipse, and..... More
Ste-Julie, Quebec: Authors, n.d. [1983]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 18p, 1 ill. by Marguerite Kirmse on cover. Sale catalogue offering 305 books about dogs, including 21 titles written and/or illustrated by Cecil Aldin and over 100 general references. The rest of the books are arranged by group: sporting, hound..... More
Lisbon: Instituto Portugues de Museus, 1993. First edition. Large soft cover. 126p, dozens of large color photos, including many details. In English. Sumptuous survey of this important museum and its elaborate vehicles--their history, construction, decoration (gilt galore), etc. Good for a gift. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004. Rolf, William Curtis (photos). First edition. Hardcover. 307p, ca. 275 ills. (plans, elevations, old and new photos, etc.), many in color. Neat owner's name on front endpaper. This handsome award-winning book is the definitive architectural..... More
![Item #31248 Riding and Jumping [Charles Harris copy with his notes]. William Steinkraus](/pictures/thumb/31248.jpg?v=1672745754)
London: Pelham Books, 1971. Revised edition (1st pub. 1961). Hardcover. 195p + 32p of photos. One of the classics, short but pithy. From the library of horseman/writer Charles Harris, who was highly critical of most 20th-century horsemanship books. Here he notes in red ink on the front endpaper, "To get..... More
![Item #31247 Common Sense Horsemanship [Charles Harris copy with his notes]; A Distinct Method of...](/pictures/thumb/31247.jpg?v=1672745754)
New York: Van Nostrand, 1963. Second edition (1st pub. 1951). Hardcover. 370p, over 100 line ills. and photos + 2 folding charts outlining steps in schooling and performance. With two chapters by Alexis Wrangel. Edited and designed by Eugene V. Connett. Although Littauer's emphasis on forward movement at the expense..... More
Paris: Robert de Jonghe and Agnes Vienot, September 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, several large ills. Bookseller catalogue offering 404 books in all fields of food, drink, and the culinary arts. Emphasis on France and French books. A joint enterprise of Robert de Jonghe (Librairie Le Festin de Babette..... More
Paris: Salet, n.d. [ca. 1959-60]. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many ills. including a number of bindings. Bookseller catalogue with 273 entries--incunabula and other early works, illustrated books, fine bindings, etc., including history, literature, religious texts, belles lettres, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
Munich: Rosenthal, n.d. [ca. 1940]. First edition. Soft cover. 146p, 1 plate printed in red and black + cover ill. Over 1800 short entries of books, manuscripts, autographs, documents, and other material relating to Bavaria, from the 16th century on. Issued as a supplement to Katalog 133. Can be sent..... More
London: Martin Breslauer, n.d. [1970s]. First edition. Soft cover. 70p, many ills. Printed in red and black. Large-format bookseller catalogue with 321 items on many subjects--manuscripts, autographs, hisorical documents, 15th-20th-century books, bindings, Oriental books, bibliography and allied subjects. One of the firm's last London catalogues. More
London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, a few ills. Bookseller catalogue with 423 items, including "festival books, colour plate books and topographical views." Chiefly 18th-19th century works; also a 16th-century Flemish album of architectural drawings and other Renaissance drawings. Can be sent outside the US..... More
London: Feisenberger, 1947-1951. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Cat. 16 issued by Feisenberger & Gurney. Cat. 1 offers 186 annotated "fine books and manuscripts," some with corrected entries pasted in. The others each offer several hundred old and rare books, manuscripts, incunabula, illustrated books, bindings, and works..... More
Baarn, Netherlands: Menno Hertzberger, n.d. [ca. 1952-53]. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, several line ills. 98 items, some described in detail. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Stockholm: Sandbergs Bokhandel, 1951-1966. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated; usually 100+ pages with many ills. (several in color in Cat. 13). Occasional marginal ink notes. Errata slip tipped in Cat. 10. In English. Hundreds of rare books, prints, autographs, livres d'artiste, bindings (some Gothic), broadsides, maps, etc...... More
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
