![The Horse: His Gaits [with illustrated note, original pencil sketch]. Paul Brown](/images/noimage.png)
Brown, Paul. The Horse: His Gaits, Points, and Conformation. Scribner 1943. [1st ed.] [64]p, many ills. by Brown. Good hardcover (endpapers browned, as usual); lacks d.j. Laid in: illustrated signed handwritten note with drawing, original pencil sketch, and clippings. ** (1) Undated handwritten ink note from Paul Brown, to an..... More
1829. [Clark, Bracy, ed.]. The Farrier and Naturalist; or, Horseman's Chronicle. London: Simpkin and Marshall 1829. Vol. 2, nos. 13-35 (complete). 392p + index, several line ills. Good hardcover (old quarter leather, marbled boards; rubbed). Front cover tender and will probably come off. Binding otherwise sound. ** An early veterinary..... More
![Activate Your Horse's Core: Unmounted Exercises [with DVD]. Hilary M. Clayton, Narelle C. Stubbs](/pictures/thumb/13700.jpg?v=1539198004)
Clayton, Hilary M., and Narelle C. Stubbs. Activate your Horse's Core: Unmounted Exercises for Developing Mobility, Strength & Balance. Sport Horse Publications 2008. 95-minute DVD plus 32-page booklet with many color photos and line ills. New paperbound. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate..... More
1859. Dadd, George H. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse: With Anatomical and Questional Illustrations [etc.]. NY: A.O. Moore 1859 (1st pub. 1856). x, 291p + 17 (of 20) hand-colored engraved pls. Fair hardcover in original cloth binding (spine worn, mended). ** This ambitious work was the first American..... More
1902. Guerin-Catelain, Maxime. Le Changement de Pied au Galop: Analyse de son Mecanisme. Paris: Berger-Levrault 1902. 61p, over 140 small line ills. and photos. Good hardcover (modern buckram, original wrappers not present). Inner margins of outer pages stained. Occasional neat pencil notes. In French. ** "Recherches experimentales" into the change..... More
1869. Haycock, William. Horses, How They Ought To Be Shod. London: J. Churchill & Sons 1869. xi, 52p + 14 large detailed lithographed plates, a few tinted. Fair hardcover: original gilt-stamped purple cloth is faded; frontispiece detached; bottom corner of front endpaper chipped away. Bookplate. ** A veterinarian's advice on..... More
![Die Reitkunst im Bilde [supplement]. Ludwig Koch](/pictures/thumb/1114.jpg?v=1580568188)
Koch, Ludwig. Koch, Ludwig. Die Reitkunst im Bilde. Vienna: Campagne-Reitergesellschaft, n.d. [1928]. 95p, many line ills. by the author. Good hardcover (back cover partly dampstained); no d.j. In German. ** Text and illustrations of basic principles of the horse's balance, movement, and use of the back, on the flat and..... More
1908. No named author [publisher Vinton]. The Horse for Work or Pleasure. London: Vinton, n.d. [ca. 1908]. 74p + 6p of publisher's ads, a few line ills. Good hardcover, no d.j. (as issued?). ** On "feeding, management, diseases, and accidents"; also chapters on breeds, bits and harness, carriages, shoes and..... More
1897. Pelagius [F.J. Morgan]. How to Buy a Horse: With Hints on Shoeing and Stable Management. London: Warne, n.d. [ca. 1897]. "Sixth thousand" (first pub. 189-?). 134p. Good hardcover (back stained, spine browned, neatly mended tear to front endpaper). Pictorial cover stamped in black, brown, and gilt. ** Breezy, humorous..... More
[Pinel, Honore] Conformations, Tares, Vices Redhibitoires. [Paris: Ducrocq 1869]. [48]p, 24 color pls. Fair paperbound (outer pages soiled, some smudging). Removed from a bound volume. In French. ** This is one part of Pinel's 3-part alphabetical guide to the horse, A B C du Sportsman, complete in itself. On each..... More
Sample, H. The Horse and Dog: Not as They Are But as They Should Be.... With an Elaborate and Scientific Essay on Horse-Shoeing.... [San Francisco, 1882?] 280, vii p, over 100 line ills. Very good bright hardcover, stamped in gilt (back cover lightly spotted). ** Subtitle continues: "Old and erroneous..... More
1945. Tew, Norwood Clayton, "the singing blacksmith". The Safe and Scientific Method of Shoeing Horses and Mules and Care of the Feet. [Durham, NC? Author] 1945. 29p, a few photos. Good paperbound (front cover scraped in two places where a label may have been removed). ** Advice "derived from practical..... More
