![Item #16973 Premium Horse: "Balgreen Autocrat" (22582) [Clydesdale stallion card]. Arran Heavy...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16973.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973454)
Kilsyth, Scotland: Duncan, Printers, n.d. [1944-45]. First edition. Card stock. One sheet of card stock, folded once to vest-pocket size. Printed on cover and inside two pages. No ills. Stallion card for this Clydesdale stallion, owned by James Jackson, Midton Farm, by Gartcosh. With his traveling schedule for the 1945..... More
New York: Pomegranate, 1994, 1996, 1997. Arthus-Bertrand, Yann. First edition. Spiral soft bound. Each 12 months, each ca. 18 x 14 inches. Wonderful studio photos of mostly French farm animals and their handlers--horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, ponies, mules, and donkeys. These unique portraits are both humorous and dignified. Taken from..... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1917. First edition. Soft cover. USDA Bulletin 487. 31p, 16 photos and line ills. Written for the use of secondary school teachers of agriculture. Teaching judging, classroom discussion, practice judging, estimating age and unsoundness, comparative judging, and demonstrations. The horse in the demonstration photos is a full..... More
Whitewater, WI: Heart Prairie Press, 1989 (1st pub. 1983). Second edition (the first softcover edition). Soft cover. 251p, many old photos and other ills. Detailed look, in text and many vintage photos, at the the horses, men, and baggage wagons that kept the American circus on the road, by American's..... More
London: "Farmer and Stock-Breeder" n.d. [1948]. First edition. Hardcover. 128p, many photos and ads, all printed in sepia. No jacket (as issued?). A celebration of some glorious animals, published to promote the "merits and uses of our British breeds of farm live stock." Large photos of dozens of cattle (beef..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Later printing. Hardcover. 322p, ca. 30 photos. Easily the best recent history of the role of the horse in 19th-century America. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Marshall, VA: No stated publisher, n.d. [early 1980s]. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, many photos. Small brochure promoting the French Performance Horse for jumping and eventing. Some pedigrees; photos of leading sires and performers such as Fra Diavolo, Nankin, Aime, Val de Loire, Uriel, etc. Can be sent outside the..... More
![Item #31733 Cart Horse [Dumpling]; Suffolk Horses in the Back-ground. Ben Marhsall, artist](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31733.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461636)
[London]: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1820. Marshall, Ben. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Engraved illustration. Overall ca. 11 x 8 inches; image is ca. 8 x 6 inches. Foxed back and front. Margins are torn but only one just touches the image. An appealing image of a cart horse, his..... More
Washington DC: Horse and Mule Association of America, n.d. [1945]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet, folded twice to make 6 pages. [6]p, 17 photos. Leaflet No. 276. Photo is cropped at top. A handy guide to fitting harness to draft horses and mules for maximum comfort and efficiency. Several state..... More
![Item #31702 National Belgian Horse Show / Diary [sic] Cattle Congress -- Waterloo, IA. No stated...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31702.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692652926)
Cedar Rapids, IA: "Pictures" n.d. [ca. 1940s]. No stated edition. Postcard reproduction of a photo, ca. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Printed in sepia. Unmailed. The photo shows four 6-Belgian hitches being judged in a ring alongside fairgrounds buildings. Approximately dated from the look of the ambulance in the..... More
![Item #15959 Sierakow: Panstwowe Stado Ogierow 1829-1979 [Polish State Stud Farm]. Anna...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15959.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973432)
Poznan: 1979. No stated edition. Soft cover. 128p, over 20 photos + 9 long genealogies. Laid in: several loose pages of 22 modern color photos of stallions and activities at the stud farm. Main text in Polish; historical summaries and captions in English, German, and Russian. History, practices, and bloodlines..... More
N.p. [Tri-State Horseman's Association], 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 268p, many photos of horses in ads, a few in color. Lists over 900 classes and their entries, followed by an index of the horses. No results noted. All kinds of classes—American Saddle Horse, pony, Arabian, Appaloosa, Western, Morgan, draft horses..... More
![Item #30847 La Vie des Animaux Illustree [Les Mammiferes]; XII: Chevaux, Anes, Mulets par A....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30847.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647897966)
Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, n.d. [ca. 1900]. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 193-232, several ills. from paintings and photos, 1 in color. In French. Booklet 12 of the multi-volume subscription publication on mammals of the world. It was probably intended as a natural history encyclopedia for the household. Introduction..... More
![Item #15430 A Name Index to A History of the Percheron Horse [photocopy]. Alvin Howard Sanders,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15430.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670444942)
Chicago: Breeder's Gazette, 1917. Photocopy. Loose sheets. 22p, no ills. PHOTOCOPY of the long index to people and horses named in the book. It was issued separately from most editions of the book. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate; sent postpaid if ordered..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. "With additional material by Deborah Wallin." 136p, many photos. No jacket, as issued. A title in the handy Allen Breed Series. History of this German warmblood and its influence on other breeds, the state studs, the breed society, the Hanoverian in sport, and..... More
