Devonport, UK: A.H. Swiss, n.d. [ca. 1892-93]. No stated edition. Pictorial boards (worn). Folding engraved color map, ca. 40 x 32 inches when opened. Mounted on linen within covers. Splits at the many of the fold creases are professionally mended and stablilized. At a scale of one-half inch to one..... More

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

Des Moines. IA: Mills Publishing Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover (original pebbled cloth). Over 714p, no ills. "Containing complete alphabetical lists, with condensed pedigrees of all standard stallions, standard mares, geldings, and non-standard animals, with an appendix containing a numerical list of standard stallions; the trotting rules and regulations; the..... More

N.p. [Fleischmann & Co.], n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Ca. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed on card stock. Cut down from a larger size, with loss of frame. Lower left corner is creased, old flyspecks along right edge. Removed from an album (glue traces on..... More

London: Illustrated London News, May 24, 1873. First edition. Unbound sheet. Wood engraving, removed from the magazine. Ca. 15 1/2 x 11 inches. On the other side of the sheet is a paragraph about the Four-in-Hand Club, which "makes a gallant show when it musters in Hyde Park." A sea..... More

N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: n.d. [1820s-40s?]. Unique. Unbound sheet. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under..... More

London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [1880]. Grey, Frank. No stated edition. Hardcover (pictorial cloth, gilt stamped). N.p., many color ills. by Frank Grey on 36 plates. Rebacked, new endpapers. There is a torn blank leaf within the last poem, but this is a binding error; nothing is missing. Most pages stained..... More

Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk Museum, 1971. Reprint (1st pub. 1844). Soft cover. 16p, 9 ills., mostly full page. Describes and illustrates vehicles for young readers--state carriage, mail coach, sovereign, cabriolet, pony-chaise, omnibus, railway engine, and tilbury. The pictures were meant to be colored in by children. The original edition is..... More

[Philadelphia: Barker, Moore & Mein Medicine Co.], n.d. [1906 or later]. Revised edition. Soft cover, cloth spine. [46]p, many line ills. + color covers. The front cover shows "Old Farmer Green and His Flying Machine Be-Gosh." The back cover is a racist cartoon showing "Pete Gubison Scared into a Spell..... More

New York: Cassell, 1893. Beard, William H. First edition. Hardcover. 349p, over 220 mostly line ills. by the author. No jacket, probably as issued. A manual for artists on how to show action in humans, horses, and several other animals (birds, aquatic animals, dogs, squirrels, etc.). How to represent falling..... More

Konigsberg: Voigt u. Fernitz, 1835. Bils, J. No stated edition. Unbound sheet, matted and shrinkwrapped. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under the mat). Overall ca. 22 1/2 x 18 inches, image within rules ca. 16 x 11 inches. The scene shows an early instance of organized racing in the German-speaking..... More

London: Every Saturday, August 5, 1871. Bradley, Basil. First edition. Unbound sheet. Double-page wood engraving, removed from the magazine. Folded down the center, as published. Overall ca. 21 x 15 inches. On the other side is a paragraph about Rotten Row, with a poem by Frederick Locker about the Row's..... More

[New York?]: No stated photographer, n.d. [ca. 1860-69]. First edition. Unbound CDVs. Three photographs of three different vehicles, all photographed against a backdrop and with a Brewster & Baldwin sign and the 786 Broadway address. One shows a gent leaning against what looks like a painted pillar. A strip of..... More