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

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Second edition (1st pub. 1848). xx, 218p + 34p of publisher's ads + 1 engraved pl. (heavily foxed). No jacket, as issued. Owner's ink name on endpapers. Sensible, considerate advice on buying, feeding, stabling, and affording horses. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More

Danville, IL: Interstate, 1939. Third edition (1st pub. 1936). Soft cover, comb bound. 122p, 75 photos. Handbook on handling draft horses, written for vocational agriculture students, 4-H youth, and beginner adults---choosing, feeding and conditioning, breeding, judging, and showing. Many pages and photos on braiding and decorating manes and tails. (Wells..... More

Cleveland Heights: Xenophon, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. xiv, 136p, 30 photos and line ills. The third in Racinet's popular trilogy devoted to "riding in lightness," this one combines the lessons of Baucher's flexions and Dominique Giniaux's osteopathic manipulations of the horse's neck, pelvis, etc., to unlock blocked vertebrae, etc...... More

Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, April 1887. No stated edition. Soft cover. Farm and Fireside Library, no. 38. 178p, many line ills. As often, page 61 is blank due to a printing error; photocopy supplied. History, management, training, anatomy, diseases and cures, etc. Includes a few pages on riding..... More

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