London: 1631. Reissue, various editions, see below. A reissue, with added general title page (here missing), of “Cheape... Read More about A Way to get Wealth: containing the sixe principall vocations or callings, in which everie good...
Price: $2,500
Baltimore and New York: 1829-1844. Ware-Maclay-Andrews Copy of the American Turf Register. A complete set of this rare sporting magazine, the earliest and most important to appear in America. It was founded in 1829 by John S. Skinner, who writes in his introduction to the first number: “The want of..... Read More about American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine … Edited by J.S. Skinner, Allen J. Davie, Gideon...
Price: $16,500
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1848. Third edition. Read More about The Horse and the Hound their various uses and treatment, including practical instructions in...
Price: $300
New York: Harrison Smith and Rober Haas, [1933]. Printed in France "Achevé d'imprimer le 17 Janvier 1933 par Columna et Mourlot Frères à Paris." "Published simultaneously in Paris by the Domino Press (whose logo is on the back cover) , in England by Faber and Faber, and in the U.S...... Read More about Powder. The Story of a Colt, A Duchess and the Circus
Price: $150
New York: Morrow, 1935. James, Laurian. First American Edition. Read More about National Velvet
Price: $250
N.p: n.d. [1900s]. Read More about Portrait of Horse "Tobbey."
Price: $250
Philadelphia: Uria Hunt, 1832. Second issue, with new wording on verso of title page. Read More about The American Farrier; containing a minute account of the formation of every part of the horse,...
Price: $300
Bridgeport, Conn: September 2, 1865. Barnum replies to an inquiry about two horses he'd offered for sale: "I have just returned from a 20 day trip to New Hampshire & find your letter. The horses are both free from ... blemishes [and] imperfections. The dapple black is very handsome– can’t..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("P.T. Barnum"), to C.J. Haines about horses
Price: $900
London: Printed for John Nourse et al, 1770. Seventh edition, revised. From the Library of the Publisher of Natural History of Selborne. Written by a human surgeon, and first published in 1753, this popular work was primarily a compilation of earlier writers. It went into many editions, the first edition..... Read More about The Gentleman's Farriery: or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: wherein ... M. La...
Price: $1,250
[New York: 1892]. Dates of sale: Oct. 16 and Oct. 17, 1891; sold by Tattersall's, New York. Read More about Reprint of Catalogue and Account of Sale and Dispersion of the Nursery Stud. Presented to George...
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London: Printed for T. Davies...and T. Cadell, 1771. First edition. This work, by the "Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty", is a compound of Xenophon's Treatise on Horsemanship and Bourgelats' Elements (1750-53); it contains a dissertation on the Ancient Chariot by T. Pownall; physically a very attractive book. Read More about The History and Art of Horsemanship
Price: $2,500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 667 of 1250 copies. Read More about Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 1049 of 1250 copies. INSCRIBED BY EVC III TO EVC IV. Inscribed by the publisher on front free endpaper: "To my son Eugene IV from Eugene Connett III." Read More about Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit
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np [London?]: `, 1751. Early but 6th or so edition. 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..... Read More about The Traveller's Pocket-Farrier, or, A Treatise upon the Distempers and Common Incidents happening...
Price: $500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, with erratum after p. xxi. One of 850 copies. "A wonderful book in appearance and content" (Frazier). Read More about Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present
Price: $400
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, one of 850 copies. WITH A PAUL BROWN DRAWING. "A wonderful book in appearance and content" (Frazier) With drawing of horse's head, signed and dated by Brown. Read More about Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present
Price: $750
New York: Scribners, etc, v.d. Paul Brown Collection. A substantial and interesting collection of Paul Brown remarques in his books, most drawn for the same young horseman, over a period of years. Great Horse Stories (1946). Remarque of a horse's head and inscription, "For Emma, with lots of luck, Paul, 46" Fire!..... Read More about Collection of 11 books, comprising 7 volumes signed or inscribed with original drawings:] Silver...
Price: $6,500
New York: n.d., ca. 1930. One of a very few copies. Unrecorded Meadow Brook Steeple Chase Etching. Dynamic steeplechasing scene by the master, four riders at the main jump of the Meadow Brook Cup (the same jump as in Brown’s rare and celebrated aquatint for the Derrydale Press, 1931). Unrecorded..... Read More about Etching: Meadow Brook Steeplechase scene at the Ambrose Clark estate, Broadhollow, Westbury,...
Price: $2,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Brown, paul. First edition. With a fine sepia pencil portrait 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 co--- Very sincerely Paul Brown '36." Read More about War Paint, An Indian Pony
Price: $1,250
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First Edition, one of 750 copies on Aureian paper. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry...
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London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Bayes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third Edition. Read More about An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for walking, Trotting,...
Price: $750
Dublin: printed for William Jones, 1792. First Dublin edition. Read More about Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents,...
Price: $600
London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Baynes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third edition. Read More about An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting,...
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London: printed by J. Diggens for R. Ackermann, [1825]. Rowlandson, Thomas. Engraved title page dated 1825. The first Rowlandson edition appeared in 1808. Read More about An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting,...
Price: $500
Philadelphia: Thomas DeSilver, 1823. Henderson lists only an ‘1828’ edition, probably a misprint for this 1823 edition, as American Imprints lists no such issue. Curiously, the Mr. Blyth whose Additions occur here (they are listed only in the 1832 Wheeling edition), is described on the title-page as ‘Riding Master at..... Read More about The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier, Showing How to Use a Horse on a Journey. And What Remedies are...
Price: $450
