Washington DC: GPO, 1900. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 34p, no ills. (USDA, Office of Experiment Stations, Bulletin 79) Ex-lib.: withdrawal stamps of MIT Libraries. Nothing about horses, but a state-by-state survey of farmers' institutes (and some agricultural colleges and agriculture departments), their organization and funding, etc. Can be..... 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
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New York; North Brunswick, NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1936, 1970. No stated edition. Soft cover. Animal Industry: 66p, many photos and line ills. Horsemanship: 56p, several photos and line ills. Introductions to breeds (horses, cattle, sheep, swine), care and handling, the livestock industry, and riding. Sold as a group..... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips by R. Taylor, 1805. First edition. Hardcover (contemporary boards, later leather and spine labels). 2 vols. Vol. 1: [39], [619]p + 54 engraved pls., some folding and one hand-colored (Hereford bull frontispiece). One folding plate shows the Plan of Woburn Park Farm. Pp. 583-618 consists..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1974. Ward, James. First edition. Hardcover. 179p + 12 pls. Pages age browned; jacket faded. Still one of the few studies of this renowned British painter and engraver of prize livestock and horses. Fussell was an agricultural historian, so there is much on the rural context of..... More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1965. First edition. Soft cover. 10p + many ills. on 22 pls. (Bodleian Picture Book, 14). Reproduces many images from medieval manuscripts of farming life--horses and other animals and birds, plowing, planting, harvesting, marketing, tools, etc. With descriptive captions. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
Unpublished, n.d. [ca. 19-teens]. Unbound sheet. One sheet on lined paper, written in pencil. Photo shows top third of the composition. "This is my composition For Friday." A charming step-by-step account of how young Leslie learned to hayrake, even though "the horse I was driving went quite fast which made..... 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
[Hay-on-Wye, Wales]: No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1979-80]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [12]p, a few ills. Reproduced typescript. Richard Booth, who turned Hay-on-Wye into a thriving book town, planned to form a new political party under the banner of "Rural Revival." This pamphlet is one of several promoting the..... More
Chicago: International Live Stock Exposition, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 301p, many photos of the animals, judges and officers, domestic science exhibits, trophies, etc. With a bird's-eye-view of the 20 buildings and extensive grounds. Results and summaries of all the hundreds of classes for cattle, sheep, swine, and horses. The Draft..... More
Southampton, UK: University Library, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 291p, 1 ill. No jacket, probably as issued. Wide-ranging bibliography of over 2000 British agricultural books and journals from 1600 to ca. 1900, chiefly of the 18th and 19th centuries. The emphasis is on crops, land use, sheep and dairy farming, etc...... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1862. First edition. Hardcover (original blind-stamped brown cloth; stamped "U.S. Government Bindery" on spine). 656p, many line ills.(chiefly insects), several charts. A nice sturdy copy of this fat book. Includes "The Horses of New England" by C.L. Flint and "A Few Words on Horses" by Ruth Hall..... More
