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The Gentleman's Farriery: or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: wherein ... M. La Fosse's Method of Trepanning Glandered Horses is particularly Considered and Improved: also a New Method of Nicking Horses is Recommended; with a Copper-Plate and Description of the Machine. To which is added an appendix. J. Bartlet.

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... Read More

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The History and Art of Horsemanship. Richard Berenger.

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. Read More

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Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present. Paul Brown.

Deluxe Issue, with Original Drawing

Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Deluxe Issue, no. 17 of 50 copies, signed by Brown on the half-title and with a full page pen-and-ink drawing, signed and dated by Brown. Deluxe Issue, with Original Drawing. The beautiful deluxe issue of this classic of steeplechasing, with the bookplate... Read More

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[Collection of 11 books, comprising 7 volumes signed or inscribed with original drawings:] Silver Heels (1951); Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Told in Short Form and in Pictures (1952); Daffy Taffy (1955); Fire! The Mascot (1939); Hi Guy. The Cinderella Horse (1944); Sparkie and Puff Ball (1954); Great Horse Stories. Selected by Page Cooper (1946). [And 3 signed titles:] Thrills and Spills (1933); Hits and Misses (1935); Ups and Downs (1936). [And:] Pony School (1950), inscribed by the dedicatee, Marion Shotter, to nephew Bill Brady]. Paul Brown.

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!... Read More

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Etching: Meadow Brook Steeplechase scene at the Ambrose Clark estate, Broadhollow, Westbury, N.Y.: Four riders coming over the wall, left to right. Paul Brown.

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... Read More

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War Paint, An Indian Pony. Paul Brown.

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." Read More

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Group of 14 manuscript documents relating to J.D. Leaman, a mule trader in Nevada City and Maryville, Calif., during the early days of the Gold Rush, consisting principally of receipts of payments for mules. California Gold Rush.

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... Read More

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