N.p. n.d. [1930s?]. Anderson, C.W. Limited edition. Unbound. Original drypoint etching. Image is ca. 13 1/2 x 10 inches, on sheet ca. 19 x 15 inches. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by Anderson. A farrier waits in his deserted forge for customers who no longer come. An evocative and..... More
![Item #31924 [Original Amateur Watercolor: On the Road from London to Bristol]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31924.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716236649)
N.d. [early to mid-19th century]. Unique. Unbound. Image is ca. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; overall framed size is ca. 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Beautifully matted and framed (not examined under mat). The photo is too pale and shows reflections. This appealing scene shows a gentleman and..... More
![Item #14828 Paul Brown Calendar 1946 [signed, with 4 pencil sketches]. Paul Brown](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692044179)
[New York]: [Brooks Brothers], [1945]. Brown, Paul. First edition. Original boards with original cloth ties, comb bound. [13 leaves], 12 ills. Ca. 11 x 15 inches. Covers lightly shelfworn; occasional penciling to calendar dates, occasional marginal stains. No. 901 of 1000 numbered and signed copies. Skiing, golf, a dog show..... More
[Newark, NJ]: n.d. [ca. 1810s-20s]. Unbound sheet. One sheet containing 9 lines, handwritten in ink. One tear but content clear; last line missing. Photo is cropped. Terms of a $500 bet between E. Butterworth and Joshua Buck (or Brik?) for a race between the horse Mahomet and an unnamed mare..... More
Compiled in Newmarket: Tindall & Co. (printer), [1909 and later]. Not published. Full leather (scuffed). A handwritten pedigree book, consisting of half-sheets for recording matings and other information. About 3 dozen half-sheets are filled out in various hands, in ink and pencil. The rest of the book (most of it)..... More
![Item #14652 Horses of Destiny [author and artist presentations, with drawing]. Fairfax Downey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650374224)
New York: Scribner's, 1949. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 186p, many ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks d.j. Author's and artist's pencil presentations and drawing on front endpaper: "To 'Lady Emma' Fairfax Downey New York, 1949" [and] "For Milady Hamilton Lots of luck Paul". Between the inscriptions Brown has drawn a...... More
Newark: Unpublished, 1813, 1814. Unbound sheets. (1) Letter of agreement between Miller and Crane [coachmakers] and T[homas] Gibbons, 1813. (2) Memorandum of agreement between Robert B. Campfield [coachmaker] and Thomas Gibbons, 1814, with detailed specifications for the carriage. Two sheets, one folded (creases split). In readable ink hands. In the..... More
Unpublished, 1886. Unbound sheet. One sheet, written on both sides on the letterhead of The Halfpenny Road Cart, Pontiac, MI, plus envelope. Dated February 9, 1886. Halfpenny requests a copy of Huntington's history of Clay horses, describes a local Clay stallion and some of his get, and asks if Huntington..... More
![Item #32197 [Nineteenth-Century Veterinary Manuscript]. W. Hayward, compiler](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32197.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722285682)
N.p. [London? ]: n.d. [probably 19th century]. Unpublished. Soft cover (limp leather). [72] pages filled in, the rest blank. No ills. Compiler's name written on inside cover: "W. Hayward, West Lodge Stable, Blackheath, London S.E." Ca. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Dozens of handwritten veterinary recipes, mostly in ink and..... More
![Item #31412 Washington Squires Polo Club [cover title]. Lee Mauck](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31412.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678806603)
Unpublished, ca. mid-1950s-1963. Various bindings and loose sheets. Three-ring binder, notebooks, loose sheets, etc. Mostly handwritten in mostly the same hand, a few typed. The activities of the Washington Squires Polo Club (a youth club) are only one of the topics here. Photo of cover is cropped. Appealing documentation of..... More
Unpublished, n.d. [ca. 19-teens]. Unbound sheet. One sheet of lined paper, written in pencil. Photo shows top third of the composition. "This is my composition For Friday." A charming step-by-step account of how young Leslie learned to hayrake, even though "the horse I was driving went quite fast which made..... More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. First edition thus. Hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Introd. by Owen Culbertson. xi, 64p + several pls. by Edward P. Buyck. Pages uncut; lacks the jacket. Laid in: undated 2-page handwritten note to Mrs. Dibble from "Celeste," headed by a watercolor head portrait of Celeste's..... More
Unpublished: April 1930. Photocopy of a carbon copy of this typewritten list. Unpaged; lists 269 items. Very readable. This inventory was probably prepared by a member of Hutton's staff or an outside art cataloguer. It is divided into Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Coloured Engravings, Cock Fighting, Boxers. In Black [uncolored..... More
![Item #16986 The Wild Horse of Shoreditch [original 19th-century drawing album]. Towser](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600362195)
N.p. Unpublished, n.d. [19th century]. The drawings and handwritten captions, all in brown ink, are mounted on 21 crudely joined accordion-folded panels. Seemingly lacking panel one, which may have been the title page or the start of this appealing and unique little tale. The panels, which have separated from the..... More
![Item #31758 Original Book of Entries for the Services of the Stud Horse Brown Highlander [and]...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31758.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696278506)
Unpublished, 1829, 1850, 1852. Soft cover. [34]p, 25 of them filled in. No ills. Blawenburgh is in Somerset County. Some arithmetic sums penciled on inside back cover. Photo 2 is a little cropped. Handwritten mating record for the two stallions. In April-June 1829 Brown Highlander served 56 mares. In May-September..... More
