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Edité par Edmond Blanc, Président de la Chambre Syndicale des Eleveurs de Chevaux de Pur-Sang en France - 1914 - Grand in-8 - Reliure éditeur défraichie - VII & 302 pages - Intérieur propre
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows is also new. 72 pages with large, full color illustrations by the authors of the following breeds arabian, Barb, Icelandic Horse, Horses, Kabardin, Puruvian Paso, Appaloosa, Orlov Trotter, Kladruby, Gypsy Vanner, Caspian, Mongolian, Norwegian Fjord, Kiso, Basotho, Marwari, Shire, Friesian, Trakehner Shetland, Clydesdale, Connemara, Brabant, et al.
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
20 pages. Contents: Autumn and Winter Toilettes; The Care of a French-flat kitchen; Small Selfishnesses; Women and emN - the winter school of slang; Family living on $500 a year - part XLII; New York Fashions - French dresses, French toilettes in wool; skirts and draperies, basques and drimmings, polonaises, prevailing colors, carriage costumes; Personal; Galloon for trimming hats and bonnets; Bulgarian wedding ceremonies; An English Hospital - with illustrations; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser - continued; Paris Fashion; Nice centerfold illustration "Winter Wrappings"; Mrs. Beardsley; The Woodlanders - continued; How to Judge a Horse; The Maldives Islands; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric. Book
Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 121. Plus 4 large folding sheets with a total of 44 sketch maps loosely inserted in rear pocket. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's brown quarter cloth and matching printed boards; old military institutional stamp to title. In fine condition. Excellent copy with bright interior and crisp maps. ~ First edition. Rare original treatise.
Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 121, (3). Plus 4 large folding sheets with a total of 44 sketch maps loosely inserted in rear pocket. Original publisher's printed wrappers, discoloured and shabby, trace of adhesive tape along inner hinges, old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamps to title. In good condition, fine maps. ~ First edition. Rare original treatise. The four sheets of maps are sealed with the official notification: "Diese Kartenbeilagen werden nur mit geschlossenen, unbeschädigten Streifbändern zurückgenommen".
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and photographs in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. In the interests of economy, the second edition in cloth was published without the 6 coloured plates of the first edition; they are included in the morocco-bound version.
Royal octavo. Pp. 228, (16) illustrated advertisements, publisher's catalogue. With 85 fine illustrations, some full-page. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine gilt, silken endpapers, all edges coloured red. In fine condition. Excellent copy of a lovely book, perfectly preserved.
in-8°, 406 pages, abondamment illustre in- et h.t., tabl., notes de b. de p., index, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
Royal octavo. Pp. 339, (4) publisher's ads. Plus 5 contemporary hand-coloured plates of which 2 are of horse-mounted officers, one as frontispiece, and 3 that show various equestrian equipment. Plus 3 plates of cavalry formation, 2 of which are folding. With large handsome engraved illustration to the text and other text figures. Original printed wrappers browned, spine worn, loosening, old military institutional stamps to cover and title-page. Rather foxed as usual, bit dog-eared, else in a very good internal condition with very clean plates. ~ First French edition. Translated from the English and annotated by Bonneau du Martray. Very rare in the original printed wrappers.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In special publisher's box. Folio. (43 x 31 cm). In English and Turkish. 233, [1] p., b/w and b/w ills. History of Karacabey Stud Farm with photos.= Fotograflarla Karacabey Harasi'nin geçmisi.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and very numerous fine portraits and plates throughout; original brown faux-morocco cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, green edges, green endpapers, a fine copy., A sequel worthy of its illustrious predecessor. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Book is in excellent condition with one bumped corner, a little edge wear as the only flaws. Clean covers, large gilt print at spine, decorated endpapers Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with a previous owner's sticker at front as well as written name. Dust jacket shows chipping at edges, one 1/2" tear, price clipped. Contents include: Ancient and primitive playthings, Toys of the Greeks and Romans, Mediaeval childhood, The renaissance, Movable toys, Optical toys, Juvenile theater, The doll and her belongings, Toy making as an industry, The 20's and 30's , etc. Heavily illustrated throughout with large b&w and color prints and photos, many full page
30 p. Illustrated. Photo illustrated wraps. A small but useful manual for Amish and/or Mennonite buggy (carriage) drivers. 'Englishers' who live in areas where there are a lot of these Old Order groups would do well to know the kind of stuff that's in this pamphlet, Front Case 3 R
Cartonnage de l'éditeur. 231 pages. Jaquette.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and 22 maps; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
228 pages including index. For horse owners, veterinarians, teachers and students of horse feeding. Author, a professor of animal nutrition with twenty years' experience as head of the Equine Research Program at Cornell University, has compliled an impressive array of facts about digestion, nutritional requirements, feeds and feeding programs, and nutrition-related programs to help the reader evaluate practices in a logical practical, and economical manner. Explains the characteristics of different feeds, tells what deficiency signs to watch for, feeding programs for different animals and gives suggestions for formulating feeds and evaluating commercial feeds. Dust jacket is price clipped. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Book
1st edition. Hardback in dust jacket. VG/VG. 50817. eng
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 12 and illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. A modern rural classic. Lovely copy of one of the most difficult of Evans' titles. SIGNED COPIES OF ANY OF EVANS' WORKS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
16mo, 32 pages, illustrated. (Faxfinder). eng
Edge wear to cover and small tears at top and bottom of spine. Peeling laminate on cover. 9 1/2"w x 12 1/2"h. 30 pages. Brightly colored illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky printed on heavy, creamy paper.
182 p. + Portrait Frontis. Drawings by Ezra Hershberger. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities. Original priced dust jacket, chipped with loss. Hardbound. Very good. The (Mennonite-born) author details life in the west in the early years of the 20th century. Many good insights about the settlers of Saddleback Mountains region and the Columbia River areas of Oregon and Washington. W9 RT FRONT STK
In Horselopaedia, you will find a wealth of invaluable guidance on every aspect of horse care and health, broken into easy-to-use sections. 256 pages.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor wavyness to fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 120pp. Descriptions, photographs and sketch maps for horseriding trails in the Pennine foothills area of Oldham and Tameside. With twenty-two local trail descriptions plus the Pennine Bridleway and the Trans-Pennine Trail. Scarce.