Cairo: Royal Agricultural Society, 1948. First edition. Soft cover. 136p + many photos. Some foxing to the newsprint-like pages. Historical text, followed by a list of all the stallions and mares that had by then stood at the RAS stud in Egypt, grouped by the major strains. Very useful for..... More
![Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](/pictures/thumb/16652.jpg?v=1633973445)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century hunting and racing paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, and more, including a wonderful 18th-century hunting party by Judith Lewis. Also..... 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
![Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes [12 of 16 leaves]. Albert Adam, Albrecht](/pictures/thumb/30420.jpg?v=1633973582)
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
![English Pleasure Carriages [1837, with extra material]; Their Origin, History, Varieties,...](/pictures/thumb/16494.jpg?v=1633973440)
London: Charles Knight, 1837. First edition. Hardcover (blue-green cloth, spine gilt stamped). xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Terry Clarke. Related material laid in, including two small ink drawings of carriages. Bookseller ticket of S.W. Fores. The first edition of this important book on the principles..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. First edition. Paperbound. 272p, many ills., some in color. The first major survey of the Surrealist magazine Documents (1929-30), edited by Bataille. It "combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography, and popular cultue." Published in conjunction with the Hayward Gallery exhibition "Undercover Surrealism: Picasso..... More
![Set of 22 Color Poster Postcards for the 1972 Munich Olympics]. Joksch Aicher, Nagy, Wirthner,...](/pictures/thumb/30388.jpg?v=1633973574)
Murnau: Hamann-Verlag, 1972. aicher, joksch, wirthner, nagy. No stated edition. Postcards. Numbered 101 through 122 in the series "Offizielle Olympia-Poster des Organisationskomitees der Spiele der XX. Olympiade Munchen 1972." . Twenty-two postcards that reproduce the vibrant posters designed by Aicher, Joksch, Wirthner, Nagy. (Otl Aicher also designed the Games' spiral-sun logo..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. First (only) edition. Paperbound. Auction catalogue, March 20-27, 1919. N.p. (2409 lots), a few pls. Covers soiled overall, tear to head of spine. Internally nice and clean. No prices realized. Large dispersal sale of hundreds of reproductions of works of art as well as..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. [1037 lots] + over 20 ills. on 8 pls. Covers sunned, minor penciling, tips of backstrip chipped. Covers may loosen. Pages age browned, else internally very good. Important auction catalogue of over a thousand American, English, French, German, and other..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
New York: American Art Association/Anderson Art Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 175p (354 lots), many pls. Bid sheet bound in. No prices realized. Features the original manuscripts of the "Liber Scriptorum" of The Authors Club and a series of unpublished letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Also..... More
1920. American Art Galleries. Books and Brochures by and relating to James McNeill Whistler collected by the late Frederick William Hunter. NY, 1920. 171 items, 1 plate. Very good paperbound (shelfsoil). ** Auction catalogue. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
![American Dressage Institute [newsletter]. American Dressage Institute](/pictures/thumb/30236.jpg?v=1633973535)
Saratoga Springs, NY: American Dressage Institute, 1972. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, many photos. Laid in: June 1972 Dressage Letters (1 page). A wonderful and scarce artifact from the early days of serious dressage in America, fostered almost single-handedly by the ADI during its several years of existence. Reports on..... 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
![Red Cross Membership Week [poster]; December 17 to 24 Join Now. American Red Cross, Paul Brown](/pictures/thumb/14825.jpg?v=1633973421)
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
![Paper Pools [David Hockney exhibition announcement]. Andre Emmerich Gallery](/pictures/thumb/30316.jpg?v=1633973552)
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1979. Hockney, David. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet, 1 tipped-in color plate ("Day Pool with Three Blues"). Ca. 8 1/2 inches square, folded. Outer sides smudged and soiled. Plate is fine. Announcement of the exhibition of "a series of unique pressed color pulp..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1975. Limited edition. Soft cover. 40p, no ills. One of 1000 copies. Annotated exhibition catalogue of 100 books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings from the renowed fox hunting collection of the late Mr. Andrews. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping..... More
![Protection of Animals [and] Thirteenth Annual Reports of the MSPCA. George T. Angell](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpg?v=1633973449)
Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1878, 1881. First edition. Soft cover. 16p and 20p, no ills. Angell's speech is an edition of the address he read at the annual meeting of the American Social-Science Association, 1874. Besides financial statements, membership lists, and the like, the..... 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 "The Music Lesson." Age rubbed but crisp. Pin-pricks in corners. Advertisement for a veterinary remedy showing an alert high-headed coach..... More
Worcester, MA: Charles R. Stobbs, Printer, 1897. First edition. Unbound sheet. Advertising handbill printed on newsprint (age browned). Reverse is blank. Ca.6 x 10 1/2 inches. Advertises the oxen's performance at the Vermont and New Hampshire Inter-State Fair, Billings Park, White River Junction, Vermont, August 24-27, 1897. Tom and Bob..... More
![Cabinet Card of Woman in Exotically Decorated Bed/Sitting Room]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30386.jpg?v=1633973574)
Unknown [probably U.S.]: n.d. [1880s-90s?]. Mounted photograph. Printed in sepia, mounted on heavy card stock. No photographer, place, or date. The surface is lightly rubbed, evident only in raking light. Two small nicks to the side margins. Ca. 7 x 5 inches. A youngish woman stands in a bed/sitting room..... More
London: Vinton & Co., n.d. [ca. 1908]. No stated edition. Hardcover. 74p + 6p of publisher's ads, a few line ills. No d.j. (as issued?). Neat ink name on title page. In the publisher's Country Series. Small manual on "feeding, management, diseases, and accidents"; also chapters on breeds, bits and..... 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
N.p. n.d. [ca. 1900-20]. Unbound photograph. Printed in light sepia on matte paper. Ca. 9 x 7 inches. Removed from an album, with glue traces on back. Upper right corner chipped off. Tiny closed tear below horse's forelegs. Elegant young woman in light-colored summer habit, mounted on a horse with..... More
