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
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
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. First edition. Soft cover. 436p, some ills. The first truly global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing, and how these practices have both shaped and been shaped by the social, cultural, and economic roles of animals from antiquity on. It ranges from Ayurvedic..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. First edition. Hardcover (reinforced binding). 65p, many black-and-white photos and old ills. Wide-ranging history of mules and their uses--as draft animals, in the army, as endurance mounts, in entertainment (Francis the Talking Mule), etc., for children ca. ages 10 and up. Can be sent outside..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 307p + 16p of publisher's ads, no ills. Erratum slip tipped in. Title-page printed dedication to the Duke of Beaufort, President, and the Members of The Coaching Club. From the collection of carriage historian Hugh McCausland, with his bookplate. "General information..... More
London: John Murray, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 284p, no ills. Front cover dampstained, as shown. LIghtly foxed throughout. No jacket. Old-fashioned book history, but still full of detail. On the importance of works on the hunt, falconry, angling, and horsemanship to medieval and early modern thought. Surveys the important French..... More
Bordeaux: Delmas, 1953, 1956. First edition. Soft cover (soiled). 71p + many photos on 66 pls. Laid in: 4-page supplement (1956) updating and adding to the original inventory. The last few pages were damp stuck and have been separated, with a little loss to two photos, and marginal tears and..... More
Unpublished: n.d. [1970s?]. Stapled unbound sheets. 24p, no ills. Duplicated typescript. A paper in which McCall presents the four themes he is researching: origin and distribution of the horse in West Africa; its early association with the chariot in North Africa and the Sahara; its later role as a military..... 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
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 153p, several ills. (mostly old ads). (Texas Christian University Monographs in History and Culture, 1). Valuable compilation of many facts about ca. 500 Texas-related running horses from the first mention of a "fine horse" in a Texas newspaper up to..... More
![Item #9764 The First Book of Horses [signed]. McLennan McMeekin, pseud, Isabel McLennan McMeekin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9764.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973613)
New York: Franklin Watts, 1949. Crowell, Pers. First edition. Hardcover. 45p, many small ills. by Pers Crowell, some in color. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Still a good introduction for young to middle readers, with lively illustrations by one of America's best equestrian illustrators. Color in photo..... More
Anduz, France: Parc Naturel Regional de Camargue, 1977. First edition. Soft cover. Over 210p, many line ills. and old photos. In French. Detailed land definitive ook at the Camargue way of life by a leading French folklorist, with much on the white horses of southern France, the horsemen, and their..... More
[New York]: New York Women's League for Animals, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, several photos (chiefly dogs, also a photo of the new horse ambulance). The League operated a free hospital and dispensary at 350 Lafayette Street, New York, which in 1920 handled ca. 9,500 cases and surgeries on..... More
Washingon, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. Introd. by Anthony Dent. 64p, many black-and-white ills. Catalogue of an extensive exhibition of English, French, German, and Italian books and prints on many aspects of Renaissance horses and horsemanship--military, literature, the great riding masters, carrousels, tournaments, travel, the law..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1907]. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. For the Black Beauty collector who has (almost) everything! Announcement for the four-act play "Black Beauty," running for the week of December 23, 1907, at the Worcester Theatre, Worcester, Mass. With three photos of the production--a large center spread..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 248p + 12 ills. This detailed work of labor, social, urban, and transportation history examines an often overlooked aspect of the horse-drawn world--the life of the commercial drivers. Chapters on the structure of the Parisian cab industry; the police, company..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 274p, many photos and ills. from old sources. Fwd. by Monty Roberts. Bookplate. Excellent wide-ranging history of taming and training to ride and drive from antiquity on, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes chapters on New Thinking (early dressage)..... More
![Item #14934 Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members: 3 vols. [1902, 1904, 1905]. Riding Club of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14934.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973422)
New York: Knickerbocker Press (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 1902, 1904, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Each ca. 56p, no ills. The Riding Club (founded as The Gentlemen's Riding Club in 1881) was located at 7 East 58 Street. New York Gilded Age society is amply represented in the lists of members. From..... More
[Leeds]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1949. First edition. Hardcover (full vellum; smudged, stain to front cover). 203p + several folding pls. Original edition of this documentary history of the Company from 1674, based on its charter, regulations, minutes, instructions to apprentices, lists of officers, etc. From the legeneary coaching library..... More
London and Cambridge, UK: British Equine Veterinary Association and Romney Publications, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. 324p, many photos and other ills., a few in color. Rich collection of articles by 77 specialists from 9 countries on a wide range of aspects of equine veterinary care and research, chiefly 19th..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 218p, 280 photos and line ills. + 30p of color photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper. Still the only social and architectural history of American stables, from the everyday to the grandest of the grand. The authors criss-crossed America..... More
New York: Routledge, 1994. First edition. Soft cover. 238p, a few ills. and charts. On the use of and attitudes toward animals in Western European medieval society, including "the rediscovery, in the 12th century, of the idea of an animal side to humans that made people start thinking of themselves..... More
Hildesheim: Olms Presse, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 256p, 66 photos and line ills. In German. Architectural and cultural history of stables, riding schools, hippodromes, and related buildings in Europe from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century, focusing on the German-speaking countries. Can be sent outside the..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. "With additional material by Deborah Wallin." 136p, many photos. No jacket, as issued. A title in the handy Allen Breed Series. History of this German warmblood and its influence on other breeds, the state studs, the breed society, the Hanoverian in sport, and..... More
![Item #31164 Advice to Purchasers of Horses [REVISED LISTING]. J. Stewart](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31164.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666095663)
Glasgow; London: W.R. McPhun; Simpkin and Marshall, 1834. First edition. Hardcover (contemporary paper-covered boards, gilt title-label stamped in red). 118p, no ills. Defective: lacks last page of preface and probably 2 plates--Wellesly [sic] Arabian and points of the horse. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. "Being a short and familiar treatise..... More
