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
![Item #30420 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
![Item #16494 English Pleasure Carriages [1837, with extra material]; Their Origin, History,...](/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
![Item #16932 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
![Item #30821 [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
![Item #30673 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
![Item #30919 [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..... More
![Item #14144 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
![Item #30648 Celebrated Stallion "Tippoosaib" [half-brother of Hambletonian 10?]. E. Anthony, H...](/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
Atha, Ontario: Atha Farm, 1877. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, no ills. Auction catalogue, October 17, 1877. Lists many shorthorn cows and bulls for sale, each with a several-generation line pedigree. No horses are listed, and the sheep are not identified separately. The farms were owned by William Miller, Jr...... More
N.p. Unpublished, 1879. Hardcover. 208p, many line ills. of locks, keys, door knobs, etc. Several pages removed throughout. The compiler has pasted many periodical articles onto the first ca. 40 pages of a Parker & Whipple Company trade catalogue for locks and related hardware (based in Meriden, CT). The articles..... 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
Unpublished, 1812. Unbound sheet. Handwritten note from Blodget of Tyngsborough [Massachusetts?] to Samuel Chase Esq. of Unity [unknown location], dated January 8, 1812. Torn where the wax seal was removed, with loss of a few words. Chase had stabled a mare with Blodget, and despite "every exertion" she has died..... 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
![Item #30964 [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
N.p. Unpublished, [ca. late 1890s]. Soft cover (limp leather). 134p, a few mounted reproductions of photos. Pages from various trotting farm catalogues (chiefly Bryn Mawr Stock Farm) have been mounted on the righthand pages. The descriptions, pedigrees, and records of the horses are often corrected or updated by hand. On..... 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
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
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1826. Second edition, "much enlarged and embellished with three engravings" (1st pub. 1818). Hardcover (contemporary full leather). 251p + 3 pls., showing the points of the horse, the intestines (after Ruini), and the stages of teeth. Heavily foxed, but sturdy. Focuses on conditions as Carver found..... More
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. First edition. 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..... More
