![Item #31875 [Announcement Card for a Jerez Horse Show]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705362596)
[Jerez, Spain]: No stated publisher, [1929]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed card showing a spirited Arabian horse. Ca. 5 1/2 x 4 inches. The back of the card reads: "En Jerez de la Frontera se celebrara el Concurso Equino de la Exposicion Ibero-Americana en Abril de 1929." Jerez is..... 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
London: Gay and Bird, 1905. First edition. Hardcover (full tooled leather, gilt-stamped spine). 249p + 8 photos and other ills. (including 3 photos of the stallion Rafyk). Preface by Sir Walter Gilbey. Large rubber-stamp bookplate of John A. Cockburn, with rooster and thistles. On the deterioration of English and Australian..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. Morris, George Ford. Limited edition. Hardcover. 218p, many photos and other ills. (some by George Ford Morris), 4 plates in color. Lacks the jacket. One of 750 copies of the regular edition. Introd. by James G. Harbord and Henry Fairfield Osborn. Classic account of the..... More
Lexington, KY: Kentucky Horse Park and Harmony House, 2000. First edition. Soft cover. 182p, 164 color photos. Excellent exhibition catalogue of art and artifacts relating to the horse in dynastic China, with chapters by various experts. Sculpture, jewelry, horse trappings, vessels, etc. One of the few books in English on..... 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
Bombay: Thacker & Company, 1913. Second edition (1st pub. 1907). Hardcover. 286p, many diagrams + 13 photos. Overall sound, clean, sturdy. No d.j. (if issued?). Learning and playing tournament polo, schooling ponies, some veterinary care, famous players of the past, Hurlingham rules, etc. Detailed advice, with special reference to India..... More
Cairo: E.A.O. of Egypt, 1972. First edition. Hardcover (leather spine; rebacked with original circular motif laid on). 271p, a few faint photos that don't show any horses in detail. The stud book lists horses 541-661. The next part lists "Inshass" horses, ancestors of the E.A.O. (nos. 662-708). The third part..... More
![Item #30032 The Arabian Stud Book: Vol. II [annotated]. Animal Breeding Section Egyptian...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631475351)
Cairo: E.A.O. of Egypt, 1967? First edition. Hardcover (leather spine rubbed). Ca. 350p, printed on one side; many photos. Some closed tears here and there, not affecting content. Fore-edges lightly foxed. Very sturdy. Some corrections or additions in purple ink by the former owner, an Arabian breeder who traveled to..... More
[Cairo?]: No stated publisher, n..d. [1970s?]. No stated edition. Paperbound (self wrappers). [20]p, many photos and a few line ills. Small pamphlet, chiefly in Arabic, with a little English. The overall printing quality is poor, typical of the time and place. Small introduction to the Egypt's state Arabian horse stud..... More
![Item #10258 Manual for Cossack Riding and Training of Horses [photocopy]. Colonel C. Fleisher](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10258.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670444839)
[Washington, DC]: 1908. Photocopy. Loose sheets. Pp. 49-102, 36 line ills. Trans. from the Russian by G.W. Read, Fifth U.S. Cavalry. Originally published in Professional Papers (U.S. Adjutant General Military Information Division, 18). PHOTOCOPY. Covers basic riding and schooling, "riding over difficult ground," teaching horses to lie down and swim..... More
Mena, AR: Ansata Publications [Author], 1990. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 424p, many photos and pedigrees. No jacket, as issued. A detailed reference, with historical articles about Arabians in the Middle East, various strains and families, photos and pedigrees of horses, performance and racing Arabians, etc. Most of the texts..... More
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2008. First edition. Soft cover. 146p, ca. 100 color plates. In the publisher's Chinese Traditional Culture Series. Wonderful anthology of paintings on silk of horses, dogs, cats, deer, oxen, and more, from the Tang through Qing dynasties (ca. 10th through 18th centuries). Mostly horses. With captions..... More
London: Country Life, 1937. Bullen, Anne. First edition. Hardcover. 34p, 18 plates by Anne Bullen. Jacket is soiled, torn. Two cousins struggle with training half-wild Exmoor ponies, helped by their uncle's helpful tips. By the author of the Moorland Mousie books. More
London: Witherby, 1958. Bullen, Anne. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many plates by Anne Bullen. Back of jacket soiled and stained. Short stories about 10 different horses--the author's own Thoroughbred, a picador's horse, a French circus pony that ended up in the Russian army, a hackney turned show jumper, a dappled..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Edwards, Lionel. No stated edition, possibly an early reprint. Hardcover. 184p, 12 plates by Lionel Edwards. Jacket soil. In 1897 13-year-old tomboy Phyllis is sent from Canada to stay with relatives in Exmoor. Ponies, witchcraft, poaching wild red deer, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee all..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. [1932]. Aldin, Cecil. No stated edition, probably an early reprint. Hardcover. 172p, 12 plates by Cecil Aldin (1 in 2 colors). Lacks the jacket. Camping, gypsies, and other adventures with ponies in Exmoor--Jerry and his mate Joker. Sequel to Jerry, the Story of an Exmoor..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1997. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 134p, many photos. In the Allen Breed Series. No jacket, as issued. Good overview of the history of the Shetland Pony, its many uses at work and in the show ring, great breeders and the stud book, miniature Shetlands, owning and..... More
![Item #16384 K Vershinam Sportivnogo Olimpa [The Top Russian Olympic Equestrians]. M. Ivanov](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16384.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632065184)
Tallin, Estonia: Eesti Raamat, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, several drawings + ca. 18 photos of Russian Olympic jumping and dressage riders. In Russian. History of Soviet participation in the equestrian Olympics, published under the auspices of the Union of Sports Organizations of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 192p, over 200 line ills. and photos, many in color. A wonderful collection of all kinds of British structures for animals--barns, stables (about a dozen), monuments, kennels, pavilions, a temple for pigs, dairies, aviaries, beehouses, bear castles, etc. etc. Some have..... More
Toulouse: Office du Livre, 1936. First edition. Hardcover (library buckram). 812p, no ills. Ex-university-lib., with shelf number, blind stamp, and pocket at the rear. In French. This detailed history of veterinary medicine from antiquity through the end of the 19th century is still a landmark work in its field, and..... More
[Washington, DC]: Cavalry Journal, N.d. [1930s]. Photocopy. Loose sheets (11 x 15 inches). PHOTOCOPY of a long article in an unidentified 1930s issue of The Cavalry Journal, pp. 559-579, several ills. Translation of part of Le Cheval Barbe et Son Redressage (1930). On "the Barb as he is found, and..... More
Augsburg: Joseph Rosi, 1822. First edition. Hardcover (later marbled boards, gilt-tooled leather spine). xiv, long list of subscribers, 132p + 2 hand-colored diagrams showing formations. In German fraktur. ** General handling and cavalry training, based on Polish methods with Moldavian horses. Very scarce. WorldCat locates only 8 copies, all but..... More
![Item #32814 Recopilacion Bibliografica y Temas afines de Caballo Peruano de Paso [photocopy]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32814.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753126273)
Lima: [Associacion Nacional de Criadores Propietarios de Caballos Peruanos de Paso, 1974. Unbound sheets. 55p, no ills. The second photo shows a representative page. In Spanish. Lists ca. 200 books and journal articles about the Peruvian Paso, chiefly in Spanish but also in other languages. WorldCat locates only 2 copies..... More
![Item #31836 A Rider of Valencia with His Girl [real photo postcard]. No named photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702337708)
Valencia, Spain: JDP, n.d. [1960s?]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Deckle-edged postcard, unused. Identified as "177-Alencia." An elaborately costumed Spanish horse and riders, ready for a festival. The horse's front legs, where they hide the leg of handler, seem to have been retouched in the negative. Can be sent outside..... More
