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King’s Polo Scenes
[Polo Scenes] Two lithographs: 1) close pack of...
[New York: Derrydale Press?; not published, ca. 1929]. King’s Polo Scenes. Two unpublished Polo Scenes by Edward King... Read More
Price: $2,000
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The Horse and the Hound their various uses and treatment, including practical instructions in Horsemanship and Hunting etc. etc. By...
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1848. Third edition.
Price: $300
Powder. The Story of a Colt, A Duchess and the Circus.
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....
Price: $150
The American Farrier; containing a minute account of the formation of every part of the horse, from the extremity of...
Philadelphia: Uria Hunt, 1832. Second issue, with new wording on verso of title page.
Price: $300
Autograph Letter Signed ("P.T. Barnum"), to C.J. Haines about horses.
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...
Price: $900
From the Library of the Publisher of Natural History of Selborne
The Gentleman's Farriery: or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: wherein ... M. La Fosse's Method of Trepanning...
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...
Price: $1,250
Reprint of Catalogue and Account of Sale and Dispersion of the Nursery Stud. Presented to George W. Bishop [in pen]...
[New York: 1892]. Dates of sale: Oct. 16 and Oct. 17, 1891; sold by Tattersall's, New York.
Price: $300
The History and Art of Horsemanship.
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.
Price: $2,500
Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 667 of 1250 copies.
Price: $400
INSCRIBED BY EVC III TO EVC IV
Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit.
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."
Price: $600
The Traveller's Pocket-Farrier, or, A Treatise upon the Distempers and Common Incidents happening to Horses on a Journey. with Directions...
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...
Price: $500
![Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe. [Forerward by Nancy Brown Searles]. Paul Brown, M. L. Biscotti.](/pictures/thumb/41528.jpg?v=1534804400)
Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe. [Forerward...
Lanham [Maryland] and New York: The Derrydale Press, [2001]. Brown, Paul. One of 25 deluxe copies signed by the author on the title page. Short biography and detailed bibliography of the great equine artist Paul Brown (1893-1958) by noted sporting dealer and bibliographer Duke Biscotti.
Price: $450
WITH PAUL BROWN DRAWING
Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, one of 850 copies. WITH PAUL BROWN DRAWING. "A wonderful book in appearance and content" (Frazier) With drawing of horse's head, signed and dated by Brown.
Price: $750
Paul Brown Collection
[Collection of 11 books, comprising 7 volumes signed or inscribed with original drawings:] Silver Heels (1951); Black Beauty by Anna...
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!.....
Price: $6,500
Unrecorded Meadow Brook Steeple Chase Etching
Etching: Meadow Brook Steeplechase scene at the Ambrose Clark estate, Broadhollow, Westbury, N.Y.: Four riders coming over the wall, left...
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.....
Price: $2,500
War Paint, An Indian Pony.
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 Fredrick B. Adams, Jr.] May you count many co--- Very sincerely Paul Brown '36."
Price: $1,250
In Dust Jacket
The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First Edition, one of 750 copies on Aureian paper. In Dust Jacket.
Price: $1,500
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling: WITH; The Annals...
London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Bayes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third Edition.
Price: $750
Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to...
Dublin: printed for William Jones, 1792. First Dublin edition.
Price: $600
![An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ... the Third edition. [issued with:] The Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Henry William Bunbury.](/pictures/thumb/237252.jpg?v=1534805557)
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado...
London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Baynes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third edition.
Price: $750
![An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [issued with:] The Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Henry W. Bunbury.](/pictures/thumb/313833.jpg?v=1544636101)
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado...
London: printed by J. Diggens for R. Ackermann, [1825]. Rowlandson, Thomas. Engraved title page dated 1825. The first Rowlandson edition appeared in 1808.
Price: $500
![The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier, Showing How to Use a Horse on a Journey. And What Remedies are proper for common Accidents that may befal [sic] him on the road. A New edition…with Additions by Mr. Blyth. William Burdon.](/pictures/thumb/9515.jpg?v=1551731099)
The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier, Showing How to Use a Horse on a Journey. And What Remedies are proper for common Accidents...
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...
Price: $450
Early Gold Rush Mule Trader
Group of 14 manuscript documents relating to J.D. Leaman, a mule trader in Nevada City and Maryville, Calif., during the...
Nevada City, Maryville, Forks of the Yuba, Feather River: May, 1850 to June 1851. Early Gold Rush Mule Trader. In the early days of the Gold Rush, the sure-footed mule was the ideal mode of transporting food , clothing, and other supplies to the little mining camps along the streams...
Price: $650