![The Pocket Farrier: A Treatise on the Veterinary Art [1847]. "A Practical Farrier"](/pictures/thumb/16785.jpg?v=1574793183)
1847. "A Practical Farrier." The Pocket Farrier, A Treatise on the Veterinary Art; containing the Materia Medica and Pharmacopoeia. Derby, England: Thomas Richardson and Son 1847 (1st pub. 1844). 324p, 2 engraved pls. Very good hardcover (opening pages including frontispiece and pictorial title page foxed). Rebound in plain cloth. Owner's..... More
1948. Ashoub, Abdel Alim. History of the Royal Agricultural Society's Stud of Authentic Arabian Horses. Cairo: Royal Agricultural Society, Animal-Breeding Section, 1948. 136p + many photos. Good paperbound (covers faded, chipped). Some foxing to the newsprint-like pages. ** Historical text, followed by a list of all the stallions and mares..... More
1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. Ackermann, Arthur & Son. Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings. London, 1986. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Very good paperbound (light shelfwear). ** Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century hunting and racing paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux..... More
1988. Aldin, Armour, Edwards, Holiday, Lyne, Skeaping, Stewart. Ackermann, Arthur & Son. A View from the Saddle. London, 1988. 72p, many ills., many in color. Very good paperbound. Owner's small label on front endpaper. ** Auction catalogue of almost 100 equestrian watercolors, drawings, and bronzes. Chiefly racing and hunting; also..... More
1805. [Act of Parliament]. An Act for Granting to His Majesty Additional Duties in Great Britain on Horses Used in Riding, or for Drawing Certain Carriages [etc.]. [London] March 18, 1805. Pp. [125]-131, headed by British coat of arms; a few charts. Good paperbound, neatly reinforced with paper tape. Can..... More
1767. [Act of Parliament]. An Act to Explain, Amend, and Reduce...the General Laws Now in Being for Regulating the Turnpike Roads of This Kingdom [etc.]. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Pp. 527-559, no ills. except British coat of arms. Good paperbound (removed from a bound volume; occasional small holes). Printed in..... More
No place [San Francisco?]: privately printed, 1978. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. Announcement from Virginia and Ansel Adams in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. It features lines from Wordsworth beginning "I have learned," a brilliant reproduction of Adams's 1927 "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley" with facsimile..... More
1837. Adams, William Bridges. English Pleasure Carriages: Their origin, history, varieties, materials, construction, defects, improvements, and capabilities [etc.] London: Charles Knight 1837. xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Good hardcover (blue-green cloth, spine gilt stamped). Lacks front endpaper; occasional neat penciling. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Terry Clarke. Related material laid..... More
1837. Adams, William Bridges. English Pleasure Carriages: Their origin, history, varieties, materials, construction, defects, improvements, and capabilities [etc.] London: Charles Knight 1837. xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Good hardcover (orange-brown cloth). Covers becoming tender; rear hinge exposed; lightly foxed. Former owner's pencil name: Jay Coogan, Whitehall, Newport, R.I., with..... 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
1998. Amberger, Eva-Maria. Ohne Pferde ging Nichts [Nothing Happens without Horses]. Munster: Landwirtschaftsverlag 1998. 2nd corrected ed. 171p, over 250 old photos and ills. Good hardcover in good d.j. Book is bowed from poor storage. In German. ** On the working horse in Westphalia, ca. 1900. Breeding and selling, stable..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. box 15, not 7. 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..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. box 15. 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..... 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
1888. An Old Guard, pseud. [L.C.R. Cameron]. The Coach-Horn: What to Blow, and How to Blow It. London: Kohler & Son 1888. 2nd expanded ed. (1st pub. 1879). 23p, a few line ills. + music for coach horn calls. Fair pictorial paperbound (worn, rear cover detached, outer pages foxed). Fragile..... More
1894. Anderson, Edward L. Curb, Snaffle, and Spur: A Method of Training Young Horses for the Cavalry Service and for General Use under the Saddle. Boston: Little, Brown, 1894. 132p, 32 "photographs from the life." Good hardcover (tan cloth, soiled). Internally very good and clean. No d.j. (if issued?). From..... More
Andrews, Duncan. Tally Ho!: 400 Years of Foxhunting. NY: The Grolier Club 1975. 40p, no ills. Very good paperbound. 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..... More
1878. Angell, George T. Protection of Animals [and] The Thirteenth Annual Reports of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Boston, 1878 and 1881. 16p and 20p, no ills. Fair to good paperbounds (self wrappers): covers foxed or soiled, one is loosening. ** Angell's speech is an..... More
1900. No author. The Harness Makers' Guide. Walsall: Office of "Saddlery and Harness" 1900. 60p (including 2p of ads), several line ills. Poor stapled paperbound: front cover missing, back cover detached and torn, overall worn and soiled. Content is complete. Scarce in any condition; priced accordingly. ** "Containing the lengths..... More
1908. Anonymous. The Horse for Work or Pleasure. London: Vinton, n.d. [ca. 1908]. 74p + 6p of publisher's ads, a few line ills. Good hardcover, no d.j. (as issued?). ** Small manual on "feeding, management, diseases, and accidents"; also chapters on breeds, bits and harness, carriages, shoes and shoeing. (Not..... More
No place: no stated publisher, n.d. [19th century?]. Unbound sheet. I have no idea why, by whom, or for whom, this piece of muleteer humor was made. Probably a piece of amateur printing. One leaf, folded once to make four panels. On the first panel is a hand-colored woodcut (or engraving)..... More
![The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine](/pictures/thumb/14144.jpg?v=1539198007)
Grey, Frank. Anonymous [Laura Valentine]. The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm. London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [early 1880s]. N.p., many color ills. on 36 pls. Pict. cloth, gilt stamped. Rebacked; overall fair (condition details on request). There is a blank leaf (torn) within the last poem, but this is..... More
Arabian Horse Club Registry of America. The Arabian Horse Club Registry of America 1908-1960. Chicago, n.d. [1960]. "Created by J.G. Barnard, Rolling Hills, California." Ca. 40p, several photos, color charts. Good paperbound (covers sunned). ** Not a detailed history, but a tribute to the 52nd anniversary of the registry and..... More
[Argentina] Ministerio de Guerra. Reglamento de Trabajos Hipicos (R.T. Hip.). Buenos Aires: Talleres Graficos del Instituto Geografico Militar, 1932. 63p, no ills. Good paperbound (outer pages foxed, old tapestains). Ink gift notation from a cavalry captain, 1993. In Spanish. ** Rules and conditions for various Argentine military equestrian competitions--dressage tests..... More
1944. Arran Heavy Horse Breeding Society. Premium Horse: "Balgreen Autocrat" (22582). Kilsyth, Scotland: Duncan, Printers, [1944-45]. One sheet of card stock, folded once to vest-pocket size. Printed on cover and inside two pages. Very good (light handling soil). ** Stallion card for this Clydesdale stallion, owned by James Jackson, Midton..... More
