[Upperville, VA: Ayrshire Farm, 2004]. Privately printed. Hardcover (full tooled leather, blind- and gilt-stamped). 290p, over 160 photos and line ills. Presentation from editor Sandy Lerner, 2009. Owner's blind stamp. Translation of the 1999 edition of Anspannen und Fahren, ed. by Sandy Lerner. Reprints ads from the original 1922 German..... More
![Item #16652 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
![Item #30420 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
New York: Wittenborn, 1961. Callery, Mary. First edition. Hardcover. 164p, 172 black-and-white ills. Front of jacket soiled, as shown; front flap creased (photo is taken through removable acetate jacket). Texts in English and French. With a summary catalogue of 191 works in bronze, aluminum, clay, plaster, iron, and stone. Comprehensive..... More
![Item #16494 English Pleasure Carriages [1837, with extra material]; Their Origin, History,...](/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
![Item #30388 [Set of 22 Color Poster Postcards for the 1972 Munich Olympics]. Joksch Aicher, Nagy,...](/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
Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Unbound cards. Nine chromolithographed cards of Thoroughbreds and jockeys. Glued to index cards, with some damage and staining. The horses are named—Terra Cotta, The Lion, Geraldine, Little Minch, The Tray, Geo. Oyster, Connemara, Firenze, and Favor, who all raced..... More
N.p. [Friends of Greer Allen], 2005. Privately Printed. Soft cover. 32p, many photos, some in color. Greer Allen was a legendary book designer and University Printer to Yale University. As a young man he worked on the racetrack and rode steeplechasers for 5 years until his then printing firm-employer ordered..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More
New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 311p, many photos, plans, elevations, and other line ills. (many previously unpublished). "By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled..... More
Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... 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, 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
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](/pictures/thumb/31020.jpg?v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
![Item #30236 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
![Item #14825 Red Cross Membership Week [poster]; December 17 to 24 Join Now. American Red Cross,...](/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
Washington, DC: American Remount Association, 1925-1928. First edition. Hardcover. 21 issues of this journal, which was published every other month. Contains March, September, and November 1925, and complete years for 1926, 1927, and 1928. Bound in library buckram, without the covers. Ex-library (New England Historic Genealogical Society, with their bookplate)..... More
Washington, DC: American Remount Association, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. Two issues. Each 34p, several ills. and many ads. Articles on balance and shock absorption while jumping, 2-part article on judging light and heavy horses, the Preston System of identifying horses and mules in the army, "Horse Prospects in Colorado,"..... 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
