![Item #15045 Le Cheval a l'Heure de la Voltige [Vaulting on Horseback]; Manuel Theorique et...](/pictures/thumb/15045.jpg?v=1633973423)
Coutances, France: Editions O.C.E.P., 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 94p, many line ills. In French. Guide to equestrian vaulting and gymnastics. (Wells 374) Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. More
Pleasant Hill, OH: Jesse Beery, 1944. Revised editions (1st pub. ca. 1908). Stapled soft cover. Six of eight booklets. Each 32 to 40p, many line ills. Light blue covers; photo is too pale. The books cover Disposition and Subjection, Kicking and Balking, Shying and Running Away, Bad to Shoe and..... More
![Item #30436 Two Merit Badge handbooks: Animal Industry [and] Horsemanship. Boy Scouts of America](/pictures/thumb/30436.jpg?v=1633973587)
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
Bonn: Freizeit im Sattel, n.d. [ca. 1990]. First edition. Soft cover. 136p, many photos and line ills. In German. Collection of wide-ranging articles on recreational riding of many kinds, training horses for many disciplines, etc. Includes riding Icelandic horses, how to pony a horse, practicing on a wooden horse, teaching..... More
London: British Horse Society, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover (limp boards, spiral bound). 14p + many photos on 2 folding plates. Covers age soiled, pages lightly age browned. In the days before You Tube, Pony Club members could learn from instructional films produced by the British Horse Society. This..... More
Durango, CO: Barbara Engel Therapy Services, 1988. First edition. Soft cover (comb binding). 201p, no ills. Photocopied typescript, as issued. Hundreds of book and journal titles on therapeutic riding, with short summaries of the content, compiled by an expert in the field. Arranged by subject and author. Includes many German..... More
![Item #12923 An Academy for Grown Horsemen [1 of 235; presentation to Harriet Wadsworth]. Geoffrey...](/pictures/thumb/12923.jpg?v=1633973409)
Westport, CT: Richard W. Ellis (The Georgian Press), 1930. Rowlandson, Thomas. Later printing. Hardcover. Ca. 64p, 12 color pls. (reproductions of the Thomas Rowlandson illustrations in the London 1809 edition). No jacket or slipcase, if issued. An appealing association copy, with a long inscription from Ellis to Harriet [Wadsworth, of..... More
Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (out..... More
London: Hulton Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 128p, 440 photos. Fwds. by The Duke of Beaufort and H.M. Llewellyn. Step-by-step photo analysis of many aspects of riding, from beginning to advanced work on the flat and over jumps. Includes lungeing the horse and rider, riding through passage, jumping including cross-country..... More
![Item #31207 Riding [advance reading copy]. Benjamin Lewis](/pictures/thumb/31207.jpg?v=1669723986)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1936. Limited edition. Soft cover. 141p, many photos by Eugene Friduss. In fair jacket; skewed from storage; two ink names on front endpaper; else nice and clean. This innovative photographic guide to riding on the flat and over jumps was the first such manual to use..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Fotheringill, George A. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 254p, several line ills. + 4 color pls. Pictorial cloth, gilt stamped and with illustration signed "GAF" (George A. Fothergill). Light marginal wear; overall a nice bright copy. No jacket (as issued?). With bookseller ticket of..... More
London: J. Hughs AND J. Robson, 1762. Second and First Editions. Hardcover. Two works bound in one. Pembroke: [viii], 128p + 3 folding engraved pls. Thompson: iv, 81p, no ills. Old full leather (sound). Pages browned; bit plate is torn at the edges and creased from misfolding. From the library..... More
N.p. [Germany]: Noeis, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., several pls. (photos and art works), a few in color. Small tears to jacket. In German. Handsome large collection of 248 worldwide aphorisms, proverbs, nuggets of wisdom, literary excerpts, etc., on riding, the horse, and the rider. The sources include the Bible..... More
![Item #16808 R.A. School of Equitation, India [cover title]. R A. School of Equitation](/pictures/thumb/16808.jpg?v=1633973446)
Allahabad: Pioneer Press, 1922. No stated edition. Hardcover. 99p, over 160 small line ills. showing the gaits. No title page, apparently as issued. ** Manual on how to teach recruits "for the use of officers and N.-C.O.'s doing the R.A. School of Equitation course"; supplements the Royal Artillery manuals on..... More
New York: Appleton, 1891. First edition. Hardcover (stamped in silver; covers rubbed, stained). 139p, 142 line ills. Owner's ink name. A wealth of drill formations and instructions, chiefly for teams of 12 and 16 riders. (Wells 7313) Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate..... More
London: British Horse Society, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. [Ca. 50p], no ills. Rebound in pebbled cloth. Twelve issues + Supplement of this short-lived journal--all published? It contains excerpts from writings by Charles Harris, John Swire, Xenophon, Henry Earl of Pembroke, and others; commentary on BHS standards and guidelines; short book..... More
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1859. First (only) edition. Hardcover (original gilt-stamped green cloth). 70p + several line ills on 3 lithographed plates plus pictorial title page (lightly dampstained at bottom). “Abridged and revised from ‘Waite’s Equestrian Manual’ [1850].” On the “character and management of the horse,” handling the reins, the various..... More
![Item #30766 Treatise on Horsemanship, from the Greek [1 of 150 copies]. Xenophon](/pictures/thumb/30766.jpg?v=1644843542)
Granite Springs, NY: Otto E. Koegel, 1936. Facsimile reprint (1st pub.1771). Hardcover. Pp. 219-270, no ills. No. 55 of 150 copies. No jacket (as issued?). Cover is slightly scuffed, not nearly as much as it appears in the photo. Otto Koegel of Kaywood Farms reprinted this 18th-century translation for his..... More
