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Item 322554Practical Farriery; or, the Complete Directory in Whatever Relates to the Food, Management, and Cure of the Diseases Incident to...

Blount, Surgeon, John.

Price: $400

London: G. Robinson, 1779. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for Practical Farriery; or, the Complete Directory in Whatever Relates to the Food, Management, and Cure of the Diseases Incident to Horse Add to Wish List

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Item 371774Farriery Improved; or A Complete Treatise on the Art of Farriery. Wherein are Fully Explained, The Nature's and Structure of...

Bracken, Henry [1697 - 1764].

Price: $450

Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market-Street, Jan. 12, 1809. Third American Edition. The ten cuts from the first edition are on 8 plates, plus The Age of a Horse by the Teeth, and the frontispiece, Blacksmith Murdering a Poor Horse. Henry Bracken (1687-1764) began his practice as a...... Read More Item Details for Farriery Improved; or A Complete Treatise on the Art of Farriery. Wherein are Fully Explained, The Nature's and Structure of that useful Creature, a Horse; with the Diseases and Accidents He is Liable to; and the Methods of Cure.; Exemplified by Ten Elegant Cuts, Each the Full Figure of a Horse, likewise Rules for Breeding and Training of Colts: Practical Receipts for the Cure of Common Distempers Incident to Oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, Hogs, &c. To Which is Prefixed, Ten Minutes' Advice to the Purchasers of Horses Add to Wish List

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Item 254021The Traveller's Pocket-Farrier, or, A Treatise upon the Distempers and Common Incidents happening to Horses on a Journey. With Directions...

Bracken, Henry.

Price: $500

np [London?]: `, 1751. The sixth edition (stated). Henry Bracken (1687-1764) began his practice as a physician and surgeon and, as a horse owner and patron of the turf, turned his hand to veterinary science in an era when most practitioners were abyssmally ignorant. He was among the first to..... Read More Item Details for The Traveller's Pocket-Farrier, or, A Treatise upon the Distempers and Common Incidents happening to Horses on a Journey. With Directions for the choice of a good road-horse. Being very useful for all gentlemen and tradesmen who are obliged to travel the countries Add to Wish List

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Item 301717A Comparative View of the Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle-horse during the Last and Present Centuries...

[Broadhurst, J.].

Price: $1,250

London: Thomas Hookham, 15, Old Bond Street, 1836. Read More Item Details for A Comparative View of the Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle-horse during the Last and Present Centuries Add to Wish List

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Item 366877Order of Arrangements. Thursday, Oct. 19th ... Equestrian! Performance by the Ladies at 2 1-2 o'clock ... No pedlers, auctioneers...

Broadside.

Price: $1,250

[Trumbull County, Ohio: ca. 1860]. Likely related to equestrian displays at the Trumbull County Ohio Agricultural Society, where both Austin and Seely (identified on the broadside as the President and Marshall respectively) seemed to be members. Read More Item Details for Order of Arrangements. Thursday, Oct. 19th ... Equestrian! Performance by the Ladies at 2 1-2 o'clock ... No pedlers, auctioneers, or gentlemen on horseback admitted on the ground during the Fair Add to Wish List

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Item 352780The Turf Expositor; containing An Account of the Origin of Horse Racing, Breeding for the Turf, Training, Trainers, Jockeys; Cocktails...

Brown, C.F.

Price: $150

London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1829. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Turf Expositor; containing An Account of the Origin of Horse Racing, Breeding for the Turf, Training, Trainers, Jockeys; Cocktails, and the System of Cocktail Racing Illustrated; the Turf and its Abuses; the Science of Betting Money, so as always to come off a Winner, familiarly explained, and elucidated by a variety of Examples; the Rules and Laws of Horse Racing; and every other Information connected with the Operations of the Turf Add to Wish List

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Item 242600Black Beauty … Told in short form and in pictures by Paul Brown.

(Brown, Paul) Sewell, Anna.

Price: $450

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952]. First edition thus. Paul Brown's own abridgment of this classic tale. Signed by the author on the half title, and inscribed on the front flyleaf with a remarque of horse's head, "To Stacey Connett with the best of luck Paul Brown, '53." The recipient..... Read More Item Details for Black Beauty … Told in short form and in pictures by Paul Brown Add to Wish List

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Item 301388Black & White. Simplified Drawing. Foreword by Milton Weiler.

Brown, Paul.

Price: $375

New York: Scribner's, 1939. Brown, Paul. First edition. Read More Item Details for Black & White. Simplified Drawing. Foreword by Milton Weiler Add to Wish List

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Item 324375[Gentlemen Up] Proofs of the illustrations by Paul Brown.

Brown, Paul.

Price: $375

[New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930]. Proofs of Paul Brown’s distinctive illustrations for the Derrydale steeplechasing classic Gentlemen Up, by William B. Streett. The plates depict scenes of the great American steeplechases: the Meadow Brook Cup, Wissahickon, Brookline, My Lady’s Manor, the New Jersey Hunt Cup at Far Hills, Millbrook..... Read More Item Details for [Gentlemen Up] Proofs of the illustrations by Paul Brown Add to Wish List

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Item 242613The Pen Jump, New Jersey Hunt Cup '29 [Steeplechase, a pack of six riders proceeding from left to right through...

Brown, Paul.

Price: $2,500

n.d., ca. 1934. An interesting and dynamic steeplechasing scene by Paul Brown, depicting a crowded obstacle at the 1929 New Jersey Hunt Cup. Biscotti writes of the rarity of Brown's etchings, and that many of them "were probably done in very limited editions, as the only examples seen were those..... Read More Item Details for The Pen Jump, New Jersey Hunt Cup '29 [Steeplechase, a pack of six riders proceeding from left to right through a narrow fenced paddock, a tree trunk in the foreground at left, the rider at left in flight over a fence and the rider at right addressing the next fence] Add to Wish List

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Item 229931War Paint, An Indian Pony.

Brown, Paul.

Price: $1,250

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Brown, paul. First edition. With a choice sepia pencil remarque of War Paint's head with feather hanging down and a warm inscription "To Laura Adams [sister of Frederick B. Adams, Jr.] May you count many coups, Very sincerely Paul Brown '36." Read More Item Details for War Paint, An Indian Pony Add to Wish List

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Item 56680Watercolor on paper, enhanced by crayon, titled "War Horses"

Brown, Paul.

Price: $750

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Item 219133The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Brown, William Robinson.

Price: $1,500

New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First Edition, one of 750 copies on Aurelian paper. Read More Item Details for The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn Add to Wish List

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Item 368095The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Brown, William Robinson.

Price: $9,000

New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 47 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author on colophon page. Read More Item Details for The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn Add to Wish List

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Item 53413An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling: WITH; The Annals...

[Bunbury, Henry W.].

Price: $750

London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Bayes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third Edition. Read More Item Details for An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling: WITH; The Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, By Geoffroy Gambado Add to Wish List

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Item 235796An Academy for Grown Horsemen … By Geoffrey Gambado.

[Bunbury, William Henry].

Price: $150

[New York]: [William Rudge], [1929]. Facsimile of the First Edition of 1787. No. 368 of 400 copies with the extra plates by Ross. “An Academy for Grown Horsemen is the most riotously humorous rare book about horses, riders, and equitation that has come down to us...The author, who wrote under..... Read More Item Details for An Academy for Grown Horsemen … By Geoffrey Gambado Add to Wish List

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Item 374782The Horse. Together with a General History of the Horse; a Dissertation on the American Trotting Horse, How Trained and...

(Custer, George Armstrong) Youatt, William.

Price: $20,000

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1843. First American edition. Important edition of Youatt's work (1831), with the addition of John Stuart Skinner's 66 pp. preface containing important information on the history of the horse in America. Skinner was the editor of the American Turf Register. This was a standard work and..... Read More Item Details for The Horse. Together with a General History of the Horse; a Dissertation on the American Trotting Horse, How Trained and Jockeyed, an Account of His Remarkable Performances; and An Essay on the Ass and the Mule Add to Wish List

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Item 369193The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, in Two Bookes.

De Grey, Thomas.

Price: $5,000

London: Thomas Harper for Nicholas Fussell, 1639. FIRST EDITION, one of three parallel issues of the edition, distinguished by the imprint. One of the foundational texts of English horsemanship, published here in 1639 and repeatedly in the seventeenth century. Catgorically rare: for the three variant imprints, ESTC records 18 locations;..... Read More Item Details for The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, in Two Bookes Add to Wish List

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Item 246366Hobby Horses.

(Derrydale Press) Lee, Amy Freeman.

Price: $375

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First edition, no. 110 of 200 copies signed by the author. Read More Item Details for Hobby Horses Add to Wish List

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Item 239125A Memoir of Andrew Jackson Africanus ... In Affectionate Memory of Long and Faithful Service.

(Derrydale Press) Woodward, William.

Price: $2,000

[New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1938. First edition, No. 72 of 150 copies. Fascinating horse racing recollections of a member of Woodward's staff; with a rubber-stamped facsimile handwritten presentation on free endpaper: "With best wishes and hoping you will enjoy this memoir--William Woodward" Read More Item Details for A Memoir of Andrew Jackson Africanus ... In Affectionate Memory of Long and Faithful Service Add to Wish List

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Item 370154Grasslands International Steeplechase.

(Derrydale Press) [Brown, Paul].

Price: $12,500

[New York: printed by the Derrydale Press, 1930]. Brown, Paul. First edition. One of the rarest of the Derrydales, with outstanding provenance: F.P. Williamson, Texas and Maryland based collector, and contributor to the Siegel bibliography. The only other copy recorded is the Frazier copy. Read More Item Details for Grasslands International Steeplechase Add to Wish List

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Item 369327A l’École de l’Attelage. [1] Le Cheval de l’Attelage. [2] Le Ménage [3] L’Equipage.

Diepold, Brigitte de.

Price: $375

Paris: Editeur Maloine, [1984, 1986, 1988]. Comprehensive guide to modern day coach and related equestrian topics. Read More Item Details for A l’École de l’Attelage. [1] Le Cheval de l’Attelage. [2] Le Ménage [3] L’Equipage Add to Wish List

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Item 229577Riders of Many Lands.

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.

Price: $275

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Remington, Frederic. First edition. Remington is at his best here in 19 drawings of horses and horsemen from many lands . This is a PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: "To Miss Henry A Budd / a small expression of..... Read More Item Details for Riders of Many Lands Add to Wish List

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