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
[Upperville, VA: Ayrshire Farm, 2004]. Privately printed. Hardcover (full tooled leather, blind- and gilt-stamped). 290p, over 160 photos and line ills. Presentation from editor Sandy Lerner, 2009. Owner's blindstamp. Translation of the 1999 edition of Anspannen und Fahren, ed. by Sandy Lerner. Reprints ads from the original 1922 German edition..... More
![Item #32951 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Price list laid in. Scan is too yellow. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Pollard, Alken, and more, including a wonderful..... More
![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
![Item #32952 An Exhibition of Fine English Sporting Paintings and Engravings [1979]. Arthur...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1979. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 72p (73 entries), many ills., a few in color. Laid in: pencil list of some prices, perhaps what the writer intended to bid. Introd. by Stella A. Walker. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Henderson..... More
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan [printers], March 18, 1805. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [125]-131, headed by British coat of arms; a few charts. Good paperbound, neatly reinforced with paper tape. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. New tax rates for hiring..... More
London: Mark Baskett [printer], 1767. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 527-559, no ills. except British coat of arms. Printed in black letter. The act was passed in several sessions of Parliament from May 19, 1761, to November 11, 1766, in the reign of George III. Covers many subjects, such as..... More
![Item #30420 Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes [12 of 16 leaves]. Albert Adam, Albrecht](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30420.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630954873)
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
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969. Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. First edition. Soft cover. 32p + 36 large detailed black-and-white plates, which are mostly the same size as the bindings. One of 1350 copies. Loan exhibition catalogue. Describes 60 bindings by Cobden-Sanderson's contemporaries, his personal bindings, and Doves Press bindings. Can be..... More
London: Printed by M. Ritchie for the Author, October 1799. Sartorius. First edition. Hardcover (old full polished leather, new leather spine label). 196p + 9 line plates (including frontispece portrait and 4 folding plates), some by Sartorius. This one-volume work preceded the 1805 3-volume edition. Chiefly detailed descriptions of manege..... More
Vienna: Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, 1967. Glauber, Hans. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, 11 ills., 1 in red. Ex-museum library: small ink stamp, cover label. Text in German. Checklist of the 38 works exhibited. Mechanistic images, often derived from photos. Other Glauber catalogues with the same title are readily available..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1980. First edition. Soft cover. 148p, ca. 200 ills., 1 in color. Scholarly chapters by James S. Hutchins, John C. Ewers, Ann Nelson, et al., on the development of the western stock saddle. The topics include historical prototypes, Mexican origins, post-Civil War cowboy development, related Plains..... More
New York: The New Yorker, 1936. Alajalov, Constantin. First edition. Unbound, removed from magazine. Original cover. Matted in shrinkwrap. Overall ca. 16 x 20 inches, image ca. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. Not examined under the mat. A dapper gent oprepares for a drive, overseen by the horse Eleanor and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. Albers, Josef. First edition. Hardcover. 87p, many black-and-white ills. demonstrating line, planes, volumes and solids, and motion in time. Without the acetate jacket or errata slip. The many illusions and sense of movement that straight lines can create, in the hands of a genius..... More
![Item #32086 Arconnerie general civile & militaire [saddletrees]. Ancienne Maison Fournier,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32086.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733851528)
St. Sulpice-La-Pointe (Tarn), France: Albert & Cie. n.d. [1887 or later]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 146 small lithographs of saddletrees. Captions in French, English, Spanish, and German; no other text. Trade catalogue of saddletrees "en tous genres" for sale and for export. All kinds of trees for saddles..... More
Buffalo: Hallwells Contemporary Arts Center, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 28p + 13 plates, bound dos-a-dos. Designed by Buzz Spector. Exhibition catalogue of ca. 40 books by "emerging and mid-career" artists: Nayland Blake, John Boskovich, David Carrino, Andrew Masullo, Tim Maul, Maria Porges, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Smith, Buzz..... More
N.p. [Friends of Greer Allen], 2005. Privately Printed. Soft cover. 32p, many photos, some in color. Greer Allen was a legendary book designer and University Printer to Yale University. As a young man he worked on the racetrack and rode steeplechasers for 5 years until his printing firm-employer ordered him..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More
London: Arts Council, 1965. Roberts, William. First edition. Soft cover. 30p + 23 plates. Catalogue of 212 works, shown at several locations in London, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Manchester. One painting recreates "The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring 1915," with Frederick Etchells holding the first issue..... More
New York: Alan Gallery, 1963. Latham, John. First edition. Soft cover. 8p, 2 ills. Ex-lib., with ink stamps. Alloway's text is titled "Latham's Objects." There are also short definitions of "noit" ("incoporating books") and "skoob." The Alan Gallery's second exhbition of conceptual artist Latham. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1966. Dubuffet. First edition. Soft cover. 80p, 105 ills. Ex-museum-lib. (label on cover, ink stamps on inside front cover). Designed by Herbert Matter. Exhibition catalogue of 102 works; long bibliography and exhibition lists. Includes "Twenty Third Period of My Works: (July 1962 to June..... More
![Item #33132 Architetture per lo Spettacolo [Theater Architecture]. Roberto Aloi, Agnoldomenico Pica](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33132.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782872167)
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 504p, over 800 photos (21 in color) and plans. Indexed. Text and captions in Italian, French, English, and German. Without the jacket. A very comprehensive and heavily illustrated survey of theater and concert hall design from antiquity into the 1950s, worldwide. A great..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, March 20-27, 1919. N.p. (2409 lots), a few plates. No prices realized. Large dispersal sale of hundreds of reproductions of works of art as well as original prints. The main categories are hand-colored photogravures and engravings; black-and-white etchings..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many plates (fine bindings). Auction catalogue of 175 lots: "the complete writings of distinguished American, English and French authors in finely bound library editions." Ruppert was a brewing magnate, US Congressman, and owner of the New York Yankees (1915-1939)..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several title-page illustrations. No prices realized. With an appreciation of Trumbull by Annie E. Trumbull and a long introduction to the collection. Auction catalogue of 1133 items "comprising a notable collection of books, tracts and broadsides of Connecticut and..... More
