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 "The Music Lesson." Age rubbed but crisp. Pin-pricks in corners. Advertisement for a veterinary remedy showing an alert high-headed coach..... More
Geneva and Paris: Droz, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 473p + a few plates and tables. Vol. 5, no. 2, in the series Hautes Etudes Medievales et Modernes published by the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Laid in: offprint of..... More
Unpublished, 1812. Unbound sheet. Handwritten note from Blodget of Tyngsborough [Massachusetts?] to Samuel Chase Esq. of Unity [unknown location], dated January 8, 1812. Torn where the wax seal was removed, with loss of a few words. Chase had stabled a mare with Blodget, and despite "every exertion" she has died..... More
Chicago: James B. Campbell, Copyrighted 1891 but later. Second edition. Soft cover. 48p, many line ills. Preface to the second edition printed on inside front cover. Users' testimonials at the end, one of which is dated June 1892. Ink stamp of C.G. Manning, Dunkirk, N.Y. on back cover (probably a...... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Later printing. Hardcover. 322p, ca. 30 photos. Easily the best recent history of the role of the horse in 19th-century America. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: St. Martin's Press for Reader's Digest Association, 1982. Ambrus, Victor. First American edition. Hardcover (plasticized pictorial boards). 502p, many appealing ills. by Victor Ambrus and over 100 color photos of the Yorkshire dales, towns, historical sites, country pubs, farming scenes, "living traditions of work and play," etc. Also..... More
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 611p, no ills. Guide to hundreds of archival records relating to the veterinary profession in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Where to find the records of practices, individuals, companies, professional associations, national and local governments, schools and..... More
![Item #31527 Use Gombault's Caustic Balsam [with portrait of trotter Boralma 2:07]. Williams Co....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684238752)
Cleveland: Lawrence, Williams Co., n.d. [ca. 1902]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed trade card, ca. 5 x 3 1/2 inches. Ink stamp of G. Jay Tompkins (a local distributor?) on back. Thomas Lawson's Boralma 2:07, "one of the most famous trotters seen on the turf," is used to advertise..... More
Bologna: L. Cappelli, n.d. [1925]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 5 lift-up plates. Covers foxed; one gathering detached. Printed on a heavy newsprint-like paper. In Italian. Anatomical guide to the most common visible ailments and defects of the horse. Following the text, 5 color plates show the exterior, skeleton..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1846. Miles, W. Third edition (1st pub. 1846). Hardcover (original brown cloth, blind- and gilt-stamped). [60]p, many lithographed ills. on 10 plates by the author. Foxed throughout. Ex-public lib., with old bookplate. Covers speckled and faded, spine chipped but binding is okay. On basic..... 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
Paris: Asselin et Houzeau, 1908. First edition. Hardcover (original limp cloth). 468p, 165 line ills. + 9 chromolithographed pls. With 24p of ads for veterinary medicines at the end. In French. Ink name on front endpaper: Horace L. Roberts, Veterinary Surgeon, 100 Princes St., Ipswich. Roberts was Veterinary Inspector, Board..... More
Goshen, IN: Spohn Medical Co., 1935. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 20p, photos throughout. Slight handling wear. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. A pamphlet distributed with compliments of Spohn. The lessons cover gentling, bitting, long lining, voice commands, desensitizing to such frights as a rattling road roller, truck with..... More
![Item #31626 [Advertising Trade Card for McClain's "Success" Sweat Collars]. No stated artist](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31626.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689031752)
Cincinnati: Henderson-Achert Lith. Co., n.d. [ca. 1900]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed lightweight card stock, ca. 5 1/2 x 3 inches. The shoulder sore seems to have been lightly scraped--for maximum painful effect? Perhaps a proof, as there is no text on the back although the front directs the..... More
Minneapolis: International Food Co., n.d. [ca. 1901]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, 15 ills. Closed tears to front cover, neatly though unprofessionally mended on the inside. Dogeared. Stapled binding loosening. Newsprint pages age browned, lightly stained. Small promotional booklet for M.W. Savage's International Stock Food products, featuring photomechanical line..... More
Murray Bridge, South Australia: T. O'Dea, n.d. [ca. 1927]. First edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). 65p, many ads for businesses in Adelaide and elsewhere. No d.j., as issued. Diagnosing and treating many ailments of horses, cattle, and sheep with formulas of oils, herbs, etc.--belladonna, turpentine, etc. Can be sent outside the..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 190p, no ills. No jacket (as issued?). (Institute for Government Research, Service Monographs of the United States Government, No. 41). Summarizes the BAI's many functions (improved livestock breeding, prevention of cruelty to animals, meat inspection, disease control, veterinary education, etc.), followed by..... More
Paris: La Compagnie des Librairies, 1769. No stated edition. Hardcover (old full leather, worn but expertly rebacked). 2 vols.: 317, 299p + several engraved plates (all called for; some folding). Old deaccession from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky/Kentucky Historical Society, with various handwritten numbers and one title-page ink stamp. Bookplates..... 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
Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. xii, 145p, several ills. Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents in this distinguished collection. Fwd. by the librarian, John Guido. A handy reference to many titles that aren't in the usual bibliographies. Can..... More
Southampton, UK: University Library, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 291p, 1 ill. No jacket, probably as issued. Wide-ranging bibliography of over 2000 British agricultural books and journals from 1600 to ca. 1900, chiefly of the 18th and 19th centuries. The emphasis is on crops, land use, sheep and dairy farming, etc...... More
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. 422p, several ills. and charts. Wide-ranging, comprehensive, well-researched history from the 19th century up to the present day. Emphasis on the U.S. An important and timely book. More
Kenilworth, NJ: Schering-Plough Animal Health, n.d. [1991]. Second edition (1st pub. 1972). Soft cover. 99p, 16p of ills., a few in color. Survey of large-animal western veterinary medicine, with details of various treatments. Some emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome. For the revised edition, the author added three essays: lead..... More
New York: M. Young, 1880. First edition. Soft cover, securely stapled. 98p + 4p of publisher's ads, a few line ills. History of the horse, training, veterinary care, etc., cribbed from Youatt and various taming and care manuals. Apparently the only edition. M. Young published pulp self-help manuals, including the..... More
![Item #16543 Handbuch der Pferde- und Vieharzney-Kunde [etc.] [Handbook on Horse and Livestock...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634816529)
Philadelphia: Heinrich Hory for the author, 1832. First edition. Hardcover (full contemporary leather-backed boards). 376p + [8]p, no ills. Covers show normal age-rubbing. Foxed throughout, some pages chipped. Crayon scribbling on front pastedown. rear endpapers torn. Binding very sturdy. In German fraktur (Gothic type). Unlike other American veterinary books of..... More
