New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 26 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author... Read More about The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie de C. M. Crame, 1737. Regarding the reorganization of the Municiple offices and officers. Read More about Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roi Concernant les Offices Municipaux. Du 17 Decembre 1737. Extrait...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie Royale, 1752. Ferry Tolls. Allowing the duc de Nevers to continue to run his ferry at Bec d'Allier and stating tolls the Duke may make for each use. Issued in the name of the King by Phelypeaux. Read More about Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui permet au sieur duc de Nevers de continuer de tenir un bac...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie Royale, 1752. Collecting Ferry Tolls. Stating that the Marquis de Pontchartrain may run a ferry on the river Deuil and collect tolls. Issued in the name of the King by Phelypeaux. Read More about Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui permet au sieur Marquis de Pontchartrain de tenir un bac sur...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie Royale, 1741. Collecting Tolls. Stating that the Sieur Cochet does not have the right to collect tolls either on land or on the river at Allier. Read More about Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui supprime les droits de péage prétendus par le sieur...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie Royale, 1752. Collecting Tolls. Stating that the Sieur de Villemont does not have the right to collect tolls. Issued in the name of the King by Phelypeaux. Read More about Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui supprime un droit de péage qui étoit prétendu par le...
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Paris: Chez P. G. Simon & N. H. Nyon, 1784. Feeding the Poste Carriers's Horses. Due to the high costs of provisions in feeding the horses used for conveying the Postes Louis established horse and carriage charges. Read More about Ordonnance du Roi, portant qu'à commencer du premier Octobre prochain, il sera payé par toutes...
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Paris: De l'imprimerie Royale, 1779. Toll roads and rivers, navigation. Read More about Arrêt du Conseil d'Estat du Roi Concernant les Péages établis surles grandes Routes & sur...
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Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Louis-Deniz Delatour & Pierre Simon, 1724. Speeding the Posts. To speed up the mails. Responding to complaints from the Post masters of the high rate of loss or injury of horses from carrying the post in the Berliners with four horses with two men the King..... Read More about Ordonnance du Roy, portant deffenses de courir la Poste en Berlines, ny en Chaises à deux...
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Paris: Chez Jean de la Caille, Imprimeur de la Police, de L'Imprimerie de Pierre Merge, 1713. Hackney Carriage Fights. Responding to complaints by the Police of Paris of the troubles and fights caused by the drivers of the hacks and carriages available by the hour or day, further laws to..... Read More about Ordonnance du Roi, pour les Carosses. Par heure
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New Haven: Baker & Goodwin, printers, New York, 1860. superb copy of a landmark trade catalogue. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" (Romaine). Founded in the 1850s, G. & D. Cook & Co. quickly became among the most successful northeastern U.S. carriage makers of..... Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser
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Bombay: F. Borton for G. Claridge & Co., Ltd, [1936]. First Edition. From the Introduction: "This is intended to be a book of quick and easy reference for amateurs in matters pertaining to the care and management of the saddle-horse, more especially in India and the East." Read More about Amateur Horsemasters in Asia
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London: A. Millar, 1754. The Second Edition, corrected. Very dubious about description as it matches a sold copy exactly. Read More about A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses, wherein what is necessary to the Knowledge of a Horse,...
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Buffalo: The Courier Company, Printers. Office of the Daily Courier, 197 Main Street, 1885. First edition. The Professor's First Horse Book. Earliest recorded form of Gleason's Horse Book (1892), a perennial favorite of the 1890s and turn of the 20th century. The inside front cover of this copy includes an..... Read More about Prof. O. R. Gleason's Horse Book. Treating of the Habits and Diseases of Horses and Other Animals
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Paris: chez Bance, Rue St. Denis, No. 175 près celle aux Ours, c 1830. Read More about Hand-colored Print: "Le Désagrément d'aller à Cheval." N. 2 from" L'Elegance...
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London: Hurst and Blackett, nd. Third Edition, Revised and enlarged. Read More about Points of the Horse: A Familiar Treatise on Equine Conformation
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1905. Sixth edition, incorporating the author's final revisions. Read More about Training and Horse Management in India
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New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1857. First edition. A Classic. Read More about Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States
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New York: Orange Judd, n.d. Later edition [after 1858]. Prior to his death in 1858, "Frank Forester" had written the first 13 chapters of this practical guide to good horsekeeping; the remaining 11 were completed from his notes. It was reprinted regularly over the next thirty years. Read More about Hints to Horse-Keepers, a complete Manual for Horsemen …
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New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1857. First edition. First Edition. Read More about Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States
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New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club, 1922-1980. First editions. Presentation from Vosburgh. A cornerstone of any racing library, including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume, and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. The Vosburgh volume, covering 1865-1921, is a presentation copy inscribed..... Read More about Racing in America 1665-1979
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New York: Derrydale Press, [1936]. First Edition, one of 500 copies. Read More about Lady Suffolk, The Old Grey Mare of Long Island. With a Foreword by Harry Peters
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Syracuse: Moser Truax & De Golia, 1889. First edition. Read More about Every Man His Own Trainer, or How To Develop, Condition and Train a Trotter or Pacer; Beginning...
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London: H. Bonwicke and others, 1705. Splendid Equitation Color Engravings, ca. 1705. The science of equitation and the means of teaching it developed primarily in 16th century Italy, and moved northward through Europe to England in the ensuing centuries. As time went on, techniques were refined, but the plates in..... Read More about Seven hand-colored engraved plates showing methods of riding and training horses
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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. First American edition. With an introduction by Skinner, editor of the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine , among others, and collaborator with William Youatt on The Horse, which he promotes in his introduction as being "much more historical and elaborate" while acknowledging that Clater's..... Read More about Every Man His Own Farrier: containing the Causes, Symptoms, and most approved methods of cure,...
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