![Item #31979 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1988]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710799789)
London: Ackermann, 1988. Sartorius, Pollard, Aldin, Alken, Marshall, Cooper. First edition. Soft cover. 91p (51 items), 51 color ills., 2 folding. Price list laid in. Two small ills. by Alfred Wheeler have been cut out (three foxhounds and a Norwich terrier), not affecting the other side of the page. Exhibition..... More
New York: Pomegranate, 1994, 1996, 1997. Arthus-Bertrand, Yann. First edition. Spiral soft bound. Each 12 months, each ca. 18 x 14 inches. Wonderful studio photos of mostly French farm animals and their handlers--horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, ponies, mules, and donkeys. These unique portraits are both humorous and dignified. Taken from..... More
Atha, Ontario: Atha Farm, 1877. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, no ills. Auction catalogue, October 17, 1877. Lists many shorthorn cows and bulls for sale, each with a several-generation line pedigree. No horses are listed, and the sheep are not identified separately. The farms were owned by William Miller, Jr...... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hailton, Kent, 1919. Second edition (1st pub. 1913). Hardcover (limp boards). 422p, 243 ills. with 2 tipped-in color plates. No jacket, if issued. Baillie-Grohman presents a wide range of sporting art--paintings, drawings, prints, book illustrations, tapestries--with many unusual examples. In the preface he compares the "decadent and..... More
![Item #14632 Pet Weimaraner [Paul Brown ills.]. Jack Baird](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14632.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631040646)
Fond du Lac, WI: All-Pets, 1954. Brown, Paul; Edwin Megargee. No stated edition. Soft cover. 63p, several small ills. by Paul Brown. Cover by Edwin Megargee. Care and handling of your Weimaraner. Cover ill. by Edwin Megargee. Also contains "The Health of Your Dog" by James Cutler. Can be sent..... 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
N.p. [Ohio?]: [Jesse Beery], n.d. [1950s?]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [10]p, 1 ill. Reproduced from typewritten copy; printed on one side. Stapled sheets within cover, folded once. Beery explains how to teach the 6 basic commands, as he taught them to his Jeffersonian collie, Snow White--come, heel, sit, stay..... More
![Item #33222 Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33222.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789408622)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of photos on 64 pls. In German. Catalogue of an enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Small and large sculptures, vase paintings, vessels, metalwork, etc. Birds, cats..... More
N.p. Bryn Mawr Horse Show Association, n.d. [1914]. First edition. Unbound sheet. 4p (one sheet, folded twice), 1 small ill. Laid in: unused entry form. Prize list and conditions for 41 classes: American Hounds, English Hounds, American-Bred English Hounds, Half-Bred Hounds, and Beagle Hounds. Many well-known names on the various..... More
London: Christie's, 2003. Munnings, Stubbs, Skeaping, Landseer, Edwards. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, over 100 ills., most in color (1 folding). Prices realized laid in. Auction catalogue of 18th- to 20th-century British hunting and racing paintings, also some hounds, game, and landscapes. Much the highest prices were paid for a...... 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
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. Paul Brown. First and only U.S. edition. Hardcover. 230p, many line ills. by Paul Brown (chapter heads and double-page spreads). also music for trumpet calls. No jacket. Young adult novel about a young trumpeter and one of General Custer's staghounds at the Battle of the..... More
London: Putnam, 1950. Edwards, Lionel. First edition. Hardcover. 49p, many ills. + 8 color plates by the author. Jacket is foxed and damp stained. Chapters on the fox, stag, hare, otter, badger, and other game, including "man" (hunted by draghounds or bloodhounds). Sold as is. More
London: Tate Gallery for The Yale Center for British Art, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 382p + 120 ills. and 43 color plates. The illustrations are printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. Light shelfwear to jacket. Laid in: laudatory book review from The Burlington Magazine. Beautifully produced scholarly catalogue of over..... More
New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2007. Stubbs, George. First edition. Hardcover in slipcase. 655p, hundreds of color ills., mostly large. This massive book is the definitive work on Stubbs's paintings. The text on his life and art..... More
London: Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. xv, 126p, 142 ills. (21 in color). Elegantly produced scholarly catalogue of the more than 2000 drawings then in the Mellon collection, now at Yale. Chiefly equestrian sport, by Rowlandson, Seymour, Stubbs, Gilpin, etc. Heavy; shipping/handling..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1901. Klepper, Beard, Drake, Hambidge. First edition. Hardcover. 256p + 16 gravure plates by Max F. Klepper, J. Carter Beard, Dixon (photographer), Will H. Drake, and Jay Hambidge. Owner's ink name, 1904. No jacket (as issued?). Sixteen tales of horses, dogs, cats, a donkey, and an elephant..... More
New York: Outing Pub. Co., February 1914. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 515-640 + 48p of ads, many ills. Ordway's article is on pp. 583-589, with 5 photos of players and games. Overview of "the men who organized the sport and the opportunities it offers for winter play" in San..... More
![Item #31223 The Horse and Dog Lover [later The Horse Lover]: 7 issues. John J. Hartford, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31223.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670934424)
San Francisco: John J. Hartford, 1946-1947. Johnston, T. Edgar. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of August-September 1946 (vol. 11, no. 2), October-November 1946, December 1946-January 1947, February-March 1947, April-May 1947, June-July 1947, and October-November 1947 (vol. 12, no. 3). Each ca. 40p, many photos and other ills. All internally clean..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Kemp-Welch, Lucy. First edition. Hardcover. 22p + 22 large mounted plates, 4 in color and the rest in grey tones. No jacket (if issued?). The first volume in the publisher's Artists of the Present-Day Series, ed. by W. Shaw Sparrow. This impressive book was published..... More
[New York]: [L.W. Warner?], n.d. [probably 1877]. Revised edition (1st pub. 1871). Stapled softcover. 46p, several line ills. Lacks covers. Brochure promoting Dr. Herrick's patent medicines, "giving a description of the internal and external diseases and ailments of horses, cattle, mules, sheep, hogs, and poultry, with a sure and safe-method..... 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
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 611p, no ills. Guide to hundreds of archival records relating to the veterinary profession in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Where to find the records of practices, individuals, companies, professional associations, national and local governments, schools and..... More
N.p. [Brooklyn? New York?]: Long Island Kennel Club, 1912. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 58p, 1 ill. in an ad. Ca. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Summary list of 739 classes, arranged by breed. This is prefaced by the AKC dog show rules and many pages listing the many..... More
Nashville, TN: Trotwood Publishing Co., 1905. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [61]-[122], 2 plates (engravings of Jersey cows Landseer's Fancy and Bisson's Belle). The articles include part 2 of a partly romanticized "History of the Hals," "Tennessee Jerseys," "Do Farmers Think?," "Modern Cotton Culture," "Phosphates of Tennessee," various inspirational stories..... More
