New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, at the New-Juvenile Book-Store, 1833. No stated edition (first published in 1831?). Soft cover. 16p, 14 small ills. + cover ill. Covers and pages browned; some handling wear. Tied with thread (as issued?). A small chapbook for young children, with one-page descriptions..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 440p, many photos and charts. Scholarly study of the horse's neuro-physiology, covering intelligence, cognition, and various perceptions--sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Emphasizes research into visual perception (color, objects, movement, etc.), with summaries of recent studies. Trans. from French. More
Unpublished: n.d. [1970s?]. Stapled unbound sheets. 24p, no ills. Duplicated typescript. A paper in which McCall presents the four themes he is researching: origin and distribution of the horse in West Africa; its early association with the chariot in North Africa and the Sahara; its later role as a military..... More
Augusta, ME: Drew's Rural Intelligencer, 1855. First edition. Soft cover. Front-page article in Drew's Rural Intelligencer for August 18, 1855, with a wood-engraved portrait of the horse, "from life." Photo shows top half of the page. Tartar was sired by Imaum, a stallion presented by the Sultan of Muscat to..... More
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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
New York: Routledge, 1994. First edition. Soft cover. 238p, a few ills. and charts. On the use of and attitudes toward animals in Western European medieval society, including "the rediscovery, in the 12th century, of the idea of an animal side to humans that made people start thinking of themselves..... More
