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
![Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes [12 of 16 leaves]. Albert Adam, Albrecht](/pictures/thumb/30420.jpg?v=1633973582)
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
![English Pleasure Carriages [1837, with extra material]; Their Origin, History, Varieties,...](/pictures/thumb/16494.jpg?v=1633973440)
London: Charles Knight, 1837. First edition. Hardcover (blue-green cloth, spine gilt stamped). xviii, 315p, ca. 25 line ills. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Terry Clarke. Related material laid in, including two small ink drawings of carriages. Bookseller ticket of S.W. Fores. The first edition of this important book on the principles..... More
Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Unbound cards. Nine chromolithographed cards of Thoroughbreds and jockeys. Glued to index cards, with some damage and staining. The horses are named—Terra Cotta, The Lion, Geraldine, Little Minch, The Tray, Geo. Oyster, Connemara, Firenze, and Favor, who all raced..... More
![Protection of Animals [and] Thirteenth Annual Reports of the MSPCA. George T. Angell](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpg?v=1633973449)
Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1878, 1881. First edition. Soft cover. 16p and 20p, no ills. Angell's speech is an edition of the address he read at the annual meeting of the American Social-Science Association, 1874. Besides financial statements, membership lists, and the like, the..... More
![Advertising Chromolithograph for Fleischmann Yeast]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30821.jpg?v=1646682766)
N.p. [Fleischmann & Co.], n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Ca. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed on card stock. Cut down from a larger size, with loss of frame. Lower left corner is creased, old flyspecks along right edge. Removed from an album (glue traces on..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Printed on lightweight card stock, ca. 11 x 7 inches. On the back is a mounted reproduction of "The Music Lesson." Age rubbed but crisp. Pin-pricks in corners. Advertisement for a veterinary remedy showing an alert high-headed coach..... More
Worcester, MA: Charles R. Stobbs, Printer, 1897. First edition. Unbound sheet. Advertising handbill printed on newsprint (age browned). Reverse is blank. Ca.6 x 10 1/2 inches. Advertises the oxen's performance at the Vermont and New Hampshire Inter-State Fair, Billings Park, White River Junction, Vermont, August 24-27, 1897. Tom and Bob..... More
![Rysdyk's Hambletonian [real photo postcard]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30673.jpg?v=1641843367)
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1920s-40s]. No stated edition. Unbound. Reproduces one of the mid-19th-century lithographs showing William Rysdyk and his great trotting sire Hambletonian. Similar to but not the same as the Henry C. Eno or Currier & Ives compositions. Here the hay rack is on the left..... More
![Scherenschnitt of Racehorse and Jockey]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30919.jpg?v=1652735825)
N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: n.d. [1820s-40s?]. Unbound sheet. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted and shrinkwrapped. Size within mat is..... More
No place: no stated publisher, n.d. [19th century?]. Unbound sheet. I have no idea why, by whom, or for whom, this piece of muleteer humor was made. Probably a piece of amateur printing. One leaf, folded once to make four panels. On the first panel is a hand-colored woodcut (or engraving)..... More
![The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine](/pictures/thumb/14144.jpg?v=1633973413)
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [1880]. Grey, Frank. No stated edition. Hardcover (pictorial cloth, gilt stamped). N.p., many color ills. by Frank Grey on 36 plates. Rebacked, new endpapers. There is a torn blank leaf within the last poem, but this is a binding error; nothing is missing. Most pages stained..... More
![Celebrated Stallion "Tippoosaib" [half-brother of Hambletonian 10?]. E. Anthony, H T.,...](/pictures/thumb/30648.jpg?v=1640696282)
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, n.d. [ca. 1860s]. Anthony, E. & H.T. No stated edition. Stereo card. In the series Beauties of the Hudson River, no. 4188. Published ca. 1864-1868. Dated from the Anthony address on the back (501 Broadway) and from the 2-cent orange tax stamp. Image is..... More
![Catalogue of the Closing Sale of the "Atha" Herd of Short-Horns, Horses [etc.]. Ontario Atha Farm](/images/noimage.png)
Atha Farm, Ontario. Catalogue of the Closing Sale of the "Atha" Herd of Short-Horns, Horses, [etc.] With a Choice Selection from the Thistle Ha' Herd of Short-Horns and Flock of Cotswolds. Atha, Ontario, October 17, 1877. 46p, no ills. Good paperbound (front cover stained, vertical crease from folding). ** Lists..... More
London: New Sporting Magazine, December 1833. First edition. Soft cover. The articles run on pp. 97-103 and 108-120. The magazine comprises pp. 73-144 + The Racing Calendar and ads. Two engraved plates from paintings by A. Cooper: "Rabbit Shooting" and "Carp," which are lightly dampstained. Part of the first advertising..... More
[New York?]: No stated photographer, n.d. [ca. 1860-69]. First edition. Unbound CDVs. Three photographs of three different vehicles, all photographed against a backdrop and with a Brewster & Baldwin sign and the 786 Broadway address. One shows a gent leaning against what looks like a painted pillar. A strip of..... More
![Trade Card]. Brewster, Co](/pictures/thumb/30964.jpg?v=1655204878)
New York: Tiffany for Brewster & Co.? n.d. [ca. 1875]. No stated edition. Unbound. Engraved trade card. Back is blank (remains of a small paper hinge). Short crease to left margin, visible only on the back. Trivial old handling soil. The card gives the firm's addresses of Broome Street, Fifth..... More
N.p. [England?]: No stated publisher, n.d. [1893]. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 40p, 1 ill. on cover. Brochure published for distribution at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It describes the three-dimensional model of the Brookfield Stud's London "show" branch and the 19 Hackneys that were featured in paintings exhibited at..... More
New York: Sanders D. Bruce, 1884. Revised edition (1st pub. 1873). Hardcover. 640p, no ills. Original half leather, marbled boards. Spine, opening pages, and part of another page reinforced with tape; back cover tender. At least one handwritten correction. From the library of the National Quarter Horse Registry, with its..... More
Butterworth and Brik, bettors. Match Race Wager Agreement. [New Jersey, ca. 1810s-20s]. One sheet containing 9 lines, handwritten in ink. One tear but content clear; last line missing. ** Terms of a $500 bet between E. Butterworth and Joshua Brik [or Buck?] for a race between the horse Mahomet and..... More
Chicago: James B. Campbell, Copyrighted 1891 but later. Second edition. Soft cover. 48p, many line ills. Preface to the second edition printed on inside front cover. Users' testimonials at the end, one of which is dated June 1892. Ink stamp of C.G. Manning, Dunkirk, N.Y. on back cover (probably a...... More
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. Hardcover (old quarter leather, marbled boards). Vol. 2, nos. 13-35 (complete). 392p + index, several line ills. Covers rubbed; front cover tender and may eventually come off. Binding otherwise sound and content very good. Old ink owner's name. An early veterinary journal, with much on..... More
Paris: Ernest Bourdin, n.d. [1842]. Johannot, T. Unstated edition. Hardcover. 155p, many line ills. by Charlet, T. Johannot, Eug. Giraud, and A. Giroux. Contemporary marbled boards, leather spine; original paper covers bound in. Spine faded, covers shelf-rubbed. In French. Humorous observations on racing, gentlemen riders, cavalry officers, stud farm managers..... More
![The Davis or Richmond Hill Black Hawk Morgan! [original broadside]. O. A. Coates, proprietor](/pictures/thumb/14502_2.jpg?v=1633973417)
Bothwell [Ontario]: "Saturday Review" 1870. No stated edition. Broadside. Ca. 8 x 13 inches. Unfolded, matted, shrinkwrapped. There are some small random marks that may be printing or writing on the other side, or they may be due to old offsetting. With two handwritten changes. Not inspected outside of the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Unbound plates in portfolio. [16]p + 14 loose plates, all in original portfolio. Ca. 12 x 16 inches. Corners lightly bumped; folder soiled, rubbed, chipped. No. 434 of 500 copies. Large richly printed facsimile reproductions of horses portrayed in The American..... More
