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
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1980. First edition. Soft cover. 148p, ca. 200 ills., 1 in color. Scholarly chapters by James S. Hutchins, John C. Ewers, Ann Nelson, et al., on the development of the western stock saddle. The topics include historical prototypes, Mexican origins, post-Civil War cowboy development, related Plains..... More
Hannover, Germany: Unpublished Doctor of Veterinary Medicine dissertation, Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover, 1974. First edition. Unbound sheets. 191p reproduced two to a page, several line ills. from contemporary sources. Duplicated typescript. In German, with a short English abstract. On various techniques over the centuries for altering a horse's appearance--docking or nicking..... More
New York: Pegasus Books, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. 248p, no ills. Covers Anna Sewell's family and literary acquaintances, her life, the animal humane movement of the day, how she came to write Black Beauty, and the book's phenomenal success once it was published and publicized in the U.S. by George..... More
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Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1993. First edition. Soft cover. 282p, many ills. + 56 color pls. In German. A lavish scholarly study of Pegasus in fine and popular art through the ages, from Greek vases through Renaissance prints, astronomical works, French Symbolism, etc., up to the red Mobil flying horse. Chapters..... More
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2002. First American edition (1st pub. 1983). Soft cover. 222p, many vintage photos. Horses, mules, donkeys, dogs, pigeons, elephants, camels in World War I and II. With a little about earlier wars. The photos are very interesting though not well reproduced. Can be sent outside the..... More
Springton, S.A. Side-Saddle Association of South Australia, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 333p, many photos, a few in color. A must for anyone interested in Australia, horse(wo)manship, or social history. Brief lives of dozens of women riders and drivers, from the settlement of Australia to the 1980s. A wealth of information..... More
Portland, ME: Carriage Association of America, Spring 1967. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 141-196, many photos and line ills. Vol. 4, no. 4. The cover shows John M. Seabrook, G. Mossman, and Sanders Watney during their Irish coaching trip, August 1966. An early and rich issue of this fine journal..... More
Staten Island, NY: Carriage Association of America, 1969-1971. First edition. Hardcover (red buckram; some white spotting to front cover). Eight issues of this superb quarterly journal, Summer 1969-Spring 1971. Variously paged, hundreds of line ills. and photos, many in color. Bound in one volume. A treasury of information by many..... More
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984. Edwards, James. First edition. Hardcover (printed boards). 241p, many ills. by James Edwards (mostly from old photos) + endpaper maps of Berlin and Vienna. No jacket (as issued?). Signed by author on the copyright page, under a large ink stamp "Compliments of the Author..... More
Whitewater, WI: Heart Prairie Press, 1989 (1st pub. 1983). Second edition (the first softcover edition). Soft cover. 251p, many old photos and other ills. Detailed look, in text and many vintage photos, at the the horses, men, and baggage wagons that kept the American circus on the road, by American's..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1974. Ward, James. First edition. Hardcover. 179p + 12 pls. Pages age browned; jacket faded. Still one of the few studies of this renowned British painter and engraver of prize livestock and horses. Fussell was an agricultural historian, so there is much on the rural context of..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1976. Garbutt, Bernard. First edition. Hardcover. 81p, many ills. by the author, 1 plate in color. The trade edition; there was also a very limited deluxe edition. Jacket is chipped, faded. Blindstamp of former owner on front endpaper. Descriptions and sketches of everyday life with horses..... More
London: Hollis and Carter, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 217p + 13 color plates. Fwd. by Sanders Watney. On the mail coaches in Scotland from the first routes in the early 17th century to the final coach run in 1915. On the roads, the inns, the personalities, the accidents and hazards..... More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1961 and 1931. Offprints from the journal Syria. Soft cover. "A Near Eastern Horseman" by Hanfmann (1961): pp. 245-255, several ills. "Dieux et Chevaux" by Rostovtzeff (1931): pp. 48-57, several ills. Covers of "Dieux et Chevaux" detached; else both articles are very good overall. Hanfmann is in..... More
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1875. Second edition, revised and enlarged (1st pub. 1872). Hardcover (original leather). liii, 411p, no ills. A volume of case law, presenting 750 cases "embracing the law of bargain, sale, and warranty of horses and other live stock; the rule as to unsoundness and vice and the..... More
Hamden, CT: Archon Books / Shoe String Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 103p, 19 ills. Jacket shelf rubbed. Survey of the rise and decline of New Haven's carriage industry, based on catalogues, business records, and other primary sources. Still a standard reference. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First trade edition. Hardcover. "First edition after the printing of 450 deluxe copies." xxix, 368p + many photos, several folding maps. Engraved bookplate of Otto Jaeger, with designer initials that seem to read N.M. Without the jacket or slipcase. Covers rubbed; spine worn; front..... More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1965. First edition. Soft cover. 10p + many ills. on 22 pls. (Bodleian Picture Book, 14). Reproduces many images from medieval manuscripts of farming life--horses and other animals and birds, plowing, planting, harvesting, marketing, tools, etc. With descriptive captions. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
Stroud, UK: Sutton, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 180p, many photos and line ills. Jacket spine faded. Surveys the many kinds of workers and horses in post-Conquest England. A wide range of information here, though an academic reviewer criticizes Hyland for her lack of scholarship. The first page of the review..... More
Beverley, UK: Hutton Press, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. 113p, many photos. Sympathetic survey of Yorkshire Travelers' way of life, the various horse fairs, the caravans (types, makers, decoration, and restoration) and "the Gypsies' present and future." The horses as such aren't treated in detail. The author ran a horse-drawn..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 381p, several ills. and charts. Light shelfwear and soil to jacket. Excellent, very informative history of America's "forgotten industry"--the development of the carriage making trade, its early industrialization, manufacture of specialty parts, influence of fashion and taste, and finally its response..... More
London: John Murray, 2017. First softcover edition. Soft cover. 426p + several ills., some in color. "Ninety-five percent of all thoroughbreds today are descended from one horse--Mr Darley's Arabian. Award-winning racing writer Christopher McGrath traces the extraordinary bloodline through three centuries of scandals, adventures and fortunes"--from Flying Childers, Eclipse, and..... More
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 153p, several ills. (mostly old ads). (Texas Christian University Monographs in History and Culture, 1). Valuable compilation of many facts about ca. 500 Texas-related running horses from the first mention of a "fine horse" in a Texas newspaper up to..... More
