![Item #16973 Premium Horse: "Balgreen Autocrat" (22582) [Clydesdale stallion card]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16973.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631640858)
Kilsyth, Scotland: Duncan, Printers, n.d. [1944-45]. First edition. Card stock. One sheet of card stock, folded once to vest-pocket size. Printed on cover and inside two pages. No ills. Stallion card for this Clydesdale stallion, owned by James Jackson, Midton Farm, by Gartcosh. With his traveling schedule for the 1945..... 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
Shropshire, UK: Field and Lane Press, 2025. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, many color photos. On plowing, haying, and generally powering a farm with one or two horses. Both a detailed how-to manual and a meditation on the "connections between nature and farming, between soil and sustainability, and the beneficial..... More
London: Walter Southwood & Co., n.d. [1907 or 1908]. No stated edition. Hardcover (original red cloth, gilt stamped). 2 vols., totaling over ca. 600p + over 200 conformation photos or prints of horses (some full-page heliogravures) and some folding pedigrees. Vol. 2 includes portraits of more than 250 "breeders, stud..... 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
![Item #32812 Montpelier Horse Show [cover reads Prize List, Sixth Annual Montpelier Horse Show]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32812.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753126151)
Wilmington, DE: C.L. Story Print, 1912. First edition. Soft cover. 4p, no ills. Summary list of 34 classes: Hackneys, Percherons, Harness (horses "are required to back"), Park Saddle, and Hunters. Harness and Hunters were the largest classes. Apparently all the classes awarded a cup and ribbons, except for coach horn..... More
Sound Beach, CT: Willowmere Farm, n.d. [1905-1906]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 36p, many photos. Catalogue of the roadsters and St. Bernard dogs at stud or for sale by Miss A.A. Marks of Willowmere Farm. Lead stallion was champion King Alar 26552 (2:26 2/4). Pedigrees of several of the horses..... More
![Item #31702 National Belgian Horse Show / Diary [sic, = Dairy] Cattle Congress -- Waterloo, IA....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31702.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692652934)
Cedar Rapids, IA: "Pictures" n.d. [ca. 1940s]. No stated edition. Postcard reproduction of a photo, ca. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Printed in sepia. Unmailed. The photo shows four 6-Belgian hitches being judged in a ring alongside fairgrounds buildings. Approximately dated from the look of the ambulance in the..... 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
![Item #15959 Sierakow: Panstwowe Stado Ogierow 1829-1979 [Polish State Stud Farm]. Anna...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15959.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771359699)
Poznan: 1979. No stated edition. Soft cover. 128p, over 20 photos + 9 long pedigrees. Laid in: several loose pages of 22 modern color photos of stallions and activities at the stud farm. Main text in Polish; historical summaries and captions in English, German, and Russian. History, practices, and bloodlines..... More
![Item #30847 La Vie des Animaux Illustree [Les Mammiferes]; XII: Chevaux, Anes, Mulets par A....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30847.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647897937)
Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, n.d. [ca. 1900]. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 193-232, several ills. from paintings and photos, 1 in color. In French. Booklet 12 of the multi-volume subscription publication on mammals of the world. It was probably intended as a natural history encyclopedia for the household. Introduction..... More
Syracuse, NY: Truair, Smith & Co., Printers, 1876. First edition. Soft cover. 23p, no ills. Ca. 3 x 5 1/2 inches. Promotes the 20 Clydesdale stallions that Will and James Powell had recently imported from Scotland, where they traveled to pick out the horses. Consists entirely of effusive extracts from..... More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 226p, a few maps. No jacket, as issued? An "interpretative study" rather than a detailed history. Covers early settlement on the prairie, changes during and after the Civil War, transition to the corn belt ecoomy, "the new agriculture," "food..... More
N.p. Carriage Association of America, n.d. [1990s?]. First edition thus. Soft cover. N.p., many photos. Signed by Ryder. Collects 15 articles that were originally published in The Carriage Journal. Vivid stories of horses, people, and places that driving expert and historian Ryder knew in England and the US from the..... More
![Item #15430 A Name Index to A History of the Percheron Horse [photocopy]. Alvin Howard Sanders,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15430.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670444925)
Chicago: Breeder's Gazette, 1917. Photocopy. Loose sheets. 22p, no ills. PHOTOCOPY of the long index to people and horses named in the book. It was issued separately from most editions of the book. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate; sent postpaid if ordered..... More
Various places, probably all in Ontario: Various farms, as listed, 1909-1915. First edition. Unbound. Each, one sheet of folded card stock with 1 line ill. Ca. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Five of the illustrations are from the same stock wood-engraving, so they don't depict the actual horses. The..... More
