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50760Crimea 1855. Broadside 13 x 8 1/8 inches printed on blue paper. Folded; some soiling. Still very good. Apparently unrecorded and a rare survival possibly printed on a field press. Each of the ten races is named e.g. The Opening Stakes "Half-mile course"; The Winter Steeple Chase "for all horses that have been at the front before Sebastopol since 1st December 1854"; The Sebastopol Grand Military Steeple Chase "for all horses the property of Officers in the Allied Forces"; The Moke States "for all mules"; etc. and each entrant was charged a fee from five shillings to two pounds; second place would generally save his stake the balance to the winner. The second day was given over to the troops with a 25 pound purse for "Foot Races and other Sports for the men of the 3rd Division." Not located on OCLC RLIN or COPAC. <br/><br/> unknown books
1904306793<p>First edition so stated. Thick octavo. Frontispiece and 48 b/w halftone illustrations. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devices. Fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 369 pages. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
192654027New York.: International Magazine Company. 07- 1926. Profusely illustrated fashion magazine; 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 148 pp. First publication of D. H. Lawrence’s "Rocking-Horse Winner" described in the Harper’s Bazar table of contents as "A Gripping Tale of a Little English Boy." Story illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. Magazine cover art by Erté Romain de Tirtoff. Two vertical creases to front cover. Light toning at top of front cover and at bottom free edge. Chip at bottom of spine. Contents in very good clean condition. An uncommon Lawrence first edition. The magazine's editors have inserted the following descriptive text beneath the short story’s title: "A Story About Young England that May Mystify You but Will be Sure to Grip You." The magazine contains numerous fashion pages various articles on the Paris Mid-Season Collections and advertisements for French Couture houses including Worth Agnès and Henri Vergne fiction by Anita Loos and up-market advertising pages which include include Rolls-Royce Stutz Willys-Knight and Lincoln automobiles. Also an illustrated article "Luggage of Unusual Imagination Designed by Erté." An engaging lavishly illustrated time capsule. . International Magazine Company. unknown books
39081HORSE HARNESS-SIXTEENTH CENTURY Three Sixteenth Century Drawings of Leathe Straps and Metalwork for the Harnessing of Horses. N.P.: circa early 1500s. Three sheets 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Reddish-br crayon on very fine paper with unicorn watermarks. Rare original fifteenth century drawings of horse harnessing straps and metalwork possibly from Germany. The drawings are utilitarian in function a not artistic in intent for they include important details necessary for the harness maker or blacksmith to make the pieces. One of the drawings bears th number 64 in the same crayon and the others numbered 63 and 66. The first i bold full-page drawing; the second a smaller sketch on a trimmed sheet of a curious metal stirrups-and-spurs device. The watermark on the paper is of a unicorn. These drawings have a great provenance being one of only three ite which Paul Breman offered in his Catalogue One. Small wormholes on the right hand side of the sheets affect only one drawing; apart from that the sheets remarkably clean and well preserved. unknown books
1851WRCAM55569Gonzales County Tx. 1851. 2pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds a few ink smudges. Very good. An original manuscript agreement setting the terms of a horse race in Texas in 1851. The document is signed by the principal parties to the contest Byrd Smith and Richard Parr both of Gonzales Texas as well as witnesses C.C. DeWitt and A.S. Miller. <br> <br> The agreement totaling approximately 375 words reads in part: <br> <br> "Article sic of agreement between Byrd Smith.& Richard Parr.we the above named parties agree to run a Race six weeks from this date said race to be run between A.S. Miller's & John G. King's on the old tracks the distance of eight hundred yards.the said Byrd Smith to run a certain Bay horse called by the name of Boy Jim.the above named Parr is to run a certain sorrell sic mare called Lucy Red Fox.for the sum of one thousand Dollars.the above race to be run between the hours of 12 & 4 o'clock." <br> <br> Each of the horses is identified in the agreement by physical marks and with brands written as symbols. Additionally there is a description of the filly whose "left hind foot is white a little above the hoof with a white strike in the said hoof and a few white hairs in her face." The weight each horse is to carry is stipulated and each horse owner was required to post a $500 bond at the time of signing to be held by one William A. Matthews in case of forfeiture. <br> <br> The six names mentioned in connection to this race all had solid backgrounds in antebellum Gonzales County Texas. C.C. DeWitt A.S. Miller and William A. Mathews are all listed as stockholders in "An Act to Establish & Incorporate Gonzales County College." John G. King Sr. a grant holder in Gonzales County died there in 1856. Byrd Smith was a private in an 1841 Gonzales County militia company. Finally Richard Parr was killed in Gonzales County in 1855 - over a land squabble not a horse racing debt. <br> <br> Antebellum Texas documents on sports of any kind are exceedingly rare. Material relating to horse racing is especially hard to find considering the state did not officially sanction the sport until well into the 20th century after pari-mutuel betting was approved in 1925. unknown books