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in-8°, 397 pages, illustrations en couleurs, carte, broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire. [MI-17]
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original cloth bdg. with extra new full leather wrapper in the Ottoman style. Faded on cloth. Some slight stains on several pages. Avery good copy. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script. 11, 18, 228, 4 [...] p., 48 numerous b/w full paged plates. Ihsan Abidin, who completed the "Askerî BaytarMektebi" [I.e. Military Veterinary School] in 1904, was brought to the health and zootechnical professor of this school upon the merger of the Istanbul Military and Civilian Baytar Schools under the name of "Baytar Mekteb-i Alisi". He served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (1927-1931) and had important services in the field of zootechnics. Ihsan Abidin Bey played an important role in the establishment of Higher Agricultural Institutes, studlands and warehouses. He has signed many articles and more than fifteen books published domestically and in Europe. His the most important book is 'Osmanli atlari' [i.e. The Ottoman horse and horse breeding] including 48 numerous plates and text in 279 pages. In his book, Akinci gives examples from Europe and Africa; He extends to the remotest corners of Asia and talks about the care, feeding, characteristics of horse breeds and emphasizes the importance of horse breeding. Only two copies located in OCLC 984405354.; Not in the Arabian horse bibliography of Boyd & Paul.; TBTK 2831.; Özege 15856.; Not in Kazancigil & Solok (Veterinary bibl.). First and Only Edition.
92 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1953 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan; Magnificent full-page photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division features Montreal's Miron & Freres Ltd. using an HD-20G, the world's largest tractor shovel with a 4-yard bucket; Very colourful full-page ad for BA service stations; Great colour photo full-page ad for the General Electric Twin-System refrigerator; The fight over Vitamin E - a bonus length feature on how Dr. Evan Shute and Dr. Wilfred Shute claim to be using Vitamin E to improve major health problems of their patients - with photos; Response to the Vitamin E article by the Canadian Medical Association; The corpse that hoaxed the Axis - Part One of the amazing story of how "Major Bill Martin" was part of a British Secret Service plot to mislead the Nazis into thinking the Allies would invade Sardinia, not Sicily; Anna had to be a clown - Claudia Anna Russell-Brown is a funny lady! - with large photo; The Duke of Edinburgh - the man behind the Queen - part 7 and final instalment of series "The Family in the Palace"; Can the West Stand Peace? - will Malenkov's peace offensive increase the danger of a slump and turn it into a propaganda victory for the Communists?; Louis Hemon - Vagabond Genius - article with photos; The Strange Death of Daddy Daniels (fiction); Henry Morgan and Company Limited, of Montreal, are the holdest and most courtly department store keepersin Canada - article with great photos; Never tell a woman anything (humour); The fastest man on four legs - Horse Jockey Johnny Longden - article with photos; Colour ad for the Chevrolet Bel Air 4-Door Sedan; Nice vintage colur ad for Cycla-matic Frigidaire refrigerators; Nice full-page two-colour ad for 1953 GMC trucks; Electrohome television and radio ad; Excellent colour photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows 1953 scraper in action plus a rare 1923 photo of a tractor pulling a scraper which is loading a horse-drawn wagon with earth; Great Coke ad on back cover shows smiling woman at gas station; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
One of the standard bibliographies of horses and horsemanship. About 4,000 items described. Organized chronologically. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT.
20 pages. Features: How They Keep Horse Racing Honest - Science Invades the Sport - article with photos; Why Protestants Mourn Pope John; Zenith TV ad; The Fort Henry Guards - article with colour photos; Birth of a Stamp - Ernst Roch and Canada's new Five Cent Stamp featuring the Queen - article and great photos; Boy Scout Shadow Compass. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Cover photo of Mackenzie King unveiling monument to "Des Elements De La 11 Division Canadienne Debarouerent le 19 Aout 1942"; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein's Triumphant Tour of Canada - article with seven photos; The Canadian Army at War 1. The Canadians in Britain, 1939-1944 - 2nd Part; What a Queen's University Student Things Of the Legion; The Naval Tradition - "A Band of Brothers... A Service of Gentlemen"; Poppies for Remembrance - article with interesting photos; Radar at Sea; Funny one-page football cartoon by Bing Coughlin; Australia's "Legacy" Movement - a unique form of service; The Doctor-of-Choice Plan - don't let your doctor forget to send treatment record to D.V.A.; Poppy day 1946; The World in Review, Part 12, August 11 to September 10, 1946; Group photo of Boer War veterans taken at Particia Bay, Vancouver Island includes E.A. Robbins, J.C. de Balinhard, A.P. Hobbs, A.E. Long, A.E. Hilder, S. Taylor, G. Bellamy, W.C. Warren, B. Bath, F. Riley, W. Gerrard, and T.H. Gregg; "Occupational Oscar" cartoons; Obituary notices; Nice one-page cartoon-style ad for Dawes Black Horse Brewery; plus numerous additional ads and branch news from across the country. Beige soiling to upper corner affects a patch up to 4.5" x 2" on all pages and covers - all text remains legible. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
pp. xii, 324, 16 [Publisher's catalogue] Plus Woodcut Frontis and full page plates by Richard Doyle. Very slight damp staining on last few signatures. 12mo. Original full blue publisher's cloth binding, embossed in blind. Small loss at head and tail of spine and corners. XLib. (Masonic Homes - Elizabethtown, PA). Hardbound. The 'Author's edition'. The illustrator, Richard Doyle (1824-1883) was very popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the Victorian era. He was the brother of Charles Altamont Doyle, and thus the uncle of author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. ENGLAND BOX 2
Features: Letters about Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum - marvel or monstrosity?; Seeds of Revolt in Red China? - Richard Hughes writes of the chances of Chiang returning to the mainland; Close-Up of the First Earth Satellite - The U.S. will soon re-attempt to place a satellite in orbit some 225,000 miles up to study the moon; Children in a Crucible - "An account of the impact of the process of desegregation upon both white and Negro children at the high school in Clinton, TN, which was bombed after twelve Negro children were integrated with the 700 white students two years ago, as described by teacher Margaret Anderson; In Defense of the Politician - by Senator Richard L. Neuberger; 'To Learn and Teach the Truth' - Evaluating the performance of UNESCO; How to Mix a Cocktail Party ; A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story - A Cezanne masterpiece sold last month for $616,000, exemplifying its soaring prestige; Why Russian Women Work Like Men; End of the Boffolo Texensis; Marks of Office - Photos of interesting items in Washington offices; Visitors to the U.N. headquarters in New York; Great color-photo ad for Rheingold Extra Dry beer features photo of Madelyn Darrow, Miss Rheingold 1958 in motorboat; Classy one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Noel Coward sipping tea in pounding surf; Article on Boy Scouts; Photos of women's fashions for enchanted; Photos of various fashionable home heating stoves; Four photos from the making of "A Night to Remember" about the Titanic; Six photos of the Aga Khan IV at Harvard; The New York Horse Show; and more. 92 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight creasing to a few page corners and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to edges and signs of storage. 208pp. The Grand National, the supreme test for one man and his horse, has tugged at our emotions for nearly 150 years. Now some of the greatest modern names associated with the race have re-lived their dramatic moments in a unique collection of 27 stories.
Book is in excellent condition, with a tiny bid of fading at upper and lower covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear at edges, no tears. 143 pages, heavily illustrated in color and b&w. Chapters include: Life in mews and stables, The gig set, Horse dealers and copers, carriages for sale or hire, Cabbies and cads, Perils of the roads.
Pages 1798-1860 plus 14 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Thackeray's Bad Heroines; The Wouldbegoods (VI) - The Tower of Mystery; Autumn Days in Central Park; Babs the Impossible (continued); Fashions at the Horse Show; The Bazar's Pattern Sheet Supplement; Cut Paper Patterns; The Decorative Possibilities of Casts; Recipes for Autumn; News of Women's Clubs - with photo of Mrs. Caroline M. Edwards of Chicago; Neckwear for Christmas Gifts - with six photos; The Child and its World - IX - The Child and Handicraft; New Patterns for Lace-Making; Nice Ivory Soap ad on back cover called "Through a Looking Glass"; and more.. Few library markings. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with title in gilt and colours, and 2 fine full-page coloured plates of colours; de luxe binding of full navy roan, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt doublures, blue silk endpapers, a near fine copy. The de luxe binding is very scarce.
GLASGOW, White Horse Distilled, 1971 - In-8 format oblong - Reliure à la bradel - 40 pages - Nombreuses photographies couleurs - Bel Ex. Texte en Anglais
279 pages. Index. black and white illustrations. Bookplate signed by author affixed to front free endpaper. "Few men have played as many roles in this colourful pageant of changing times as John D. Nicholson, whose life story is told in this book. Few have had the opportunity to serve in so many ways in the exciting, hazardous and inspiring task of founding this last great homeland as this vigorous character with whose name and life are linked so many of the incidents which make up such a large part of the traditions and history of our Canadian West." - from Preface. Prior owner's details lightly pencilled upon half title page. Above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Book
in-8, 133 pp., broché, couv., jaquette illustrée Très bel exemplaire. [AZ-8]
in-8, 355 pp., illustrations, broché, couverture illustrée Bel exemplaire . [BL-10]
313 p. Collection of stories written for The Blood-Horse magazine Hardcover Very good condition good
420 pages. Undated - circa 1924. Handsomely color-illustrated front board plus seven attractive colour plates. Stories include: The Magic Horse; Codadad and his Brothers; Gulnare of the Sea; Prince Agib; and ten more. Staining to fore- and top edges. Spine slant. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this wonderfully illustrated vintage work. Book
in-8, 240 pp., nombreuses illustrations, broché, couv. illustrée. Dos usagé, traces de colle aux gardes. [JU-5]
Collection " Cheval & Cavalier " . Illustré de nombreux exemples en couleurs . Cheval , équitation . - 48 p. , 550 gr .
Royal octavo. Pp. iv, 149. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full cloth with the original decorated cover laid-down. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
P., Louis Westhausser, 1887. In-8 reliure à la Bradel demi-toile verte, dos long orné d'une fleur et de filets dorés, III-411 pp. TB état.
Includes fascinating six-page photo-illustrated feature by William P. Hitler, Adolph's nephew "who tells so candidly some things about his uncle that only a relative could know". Other features include: Student Nurses - their work and their uniforms; Stockings - short skirts bring new styles - Willy De Mond (Willy's of Hollywood); Why I Want Roosevelt to Run Again, by Harold L. Ickes; Gatti Pictures - an African Chief takes his 70 wives to the Beauty Parlor; Page of America's 10 most wanted, with photos, by J. Edgar Hoover; Movie Preview - Lady of the Tropics, starring Hedy Lamarr, and Robert Taylor; Roosevelt after 1940; Lowdown on Horse Racing, from 'Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmon; America's Best Jockeys; Hattie Carnegie vs. Elizabeth Hawes; Death Dines - photocrime; Sleep on Top of Your Car; and more. 52 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this extraordinary issue. Book
Previous owner's name to front end paper. Minor foxing to end paper and page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly sunned unmarked rear board and no bumping to corners. 286pp. Revised edition.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome illustrations (a number full-page); black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper.