Horses And Equestrian Sport from The Owl at the Bridge

series: Sport in Art and Books. The Paul Mellon Collection. Books Latin, Italian, & French 1400-1838; English & American 1450-1941. "This book is primarily a technical bibliography. It is in effect a history of English books on a luxury subject: the horse as an animal of noble recreation and delight. The focus is on the Thoroughbred… Ler mais sobre este item

Oquaga Press, NY, c1939. "Second Printing, December, 1939". "A Child's Book for Parents." Harry, a Parisian cab horse, does as he and his driver please. They end up in Biarritz. Hard Cover. [39] pages, black & white illustrations throughout, color pictorial endpapers & covers; 22 cm.; Very Good+ in color pictorial dust jacket, chipped at spine… Ler mais sobre este item

Rand McNally.. Hard Cover. 224 p., illus. incl. color, color pictorial endpapers, 25 cm. "The characters in this story are real and to them "Born To Trot" is dedicated. To the man Benjamin Franklin White, the dean of colt trainers, and four-time winner of the Hambletonian. To the boy Gibson White, owner of Rosalind, and son… Ler mais sobre este item

Rand McNally 'Second printing, 1967'. Hard Cover. Signed. 237, [2] p., illus. incl. color, pictorial endpapers; 25 cm. "When finally I went to Siena and faced the real battle of the Palio... the story I found was of heroic proportions... A peasant boy, named Giorgio Terni, and a half-bred Arabian mare seemed pawns of fate... Their battle to outwit… Ler mais sobre este item

Madrid, Tip. Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1916-1921; reprint Martino 2000. Hard Cover. Quarto; ii, v, 441 p., drawings, photos, diagrams. Besterman 2913. The definitive bibliography for horsemanship and equitation in Spain & Portugal. Describes 565 titles alphabetically by author; indexes titles and anonymous titles; copious annotations. Stock# 43,354. Fine /binder's cloth; new from the publisher.

Paris, Lucien Dorbon, 1915, 1917,1921/ Reprint Martino, 1999. Hard Cover. Three 8vo volumes: ix, 760; iii, 736; iv, 64 p. Besterman 2913. This standard bibliography of books relating to all aspects of horses and horsemanship describes nearly 8000 works with valuable annotations, numerous collations, imprints, and occasional cross-references. The author, who commanded the IIIe Division… Ler mais sobre este item

Mario Cartaro Fecit. Napoli, 1592; facsimile reprint by The Owl at the Bridge, 1990. "Ailments which can occur in a horse, and for each infirmity a remedy." Conjunction of Renaissance Italian equestrian art and veterinary medicine, this beautiful and previously unknown engraving depicts a rearing stallion and shows sixty possible equine ailments with treatment for each. Facsimile; 21"… Ler mais sobre este item

Patronage Fédération Équestre Internationale, FEI, Bruxelles [c1963; Olympischer Sport Verlag, Stuttgart]. Hard Cover. Turnier-Sport in Fünf Kontinenten. L'oeuvre documentaire internationale officielle du sport équestre. The official international documentary work of equestrian sport. Das offizielle internationale Dokumentarwerk der Turnierreiterei. In French, English, German. Beautifully illustrated survey of Olympic-level equestrian sport in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Australia. Contents… Ler mais sobre este item

Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Pub., c2007.. Hard Cover. x p., 1 l., 439, [1] p. 22 cm. A standard work on horses and horsemanship. Describes 4000 titles in chronological order. Besterman 2913. Reprint of the London, B. Quaritch, 1887, edition. Stock# 43,356.x Fine, new from publisher / no dj.

Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1926. "Reprinted September, 1926". Hard Cover. 310 p., 43 illustrations by the author; 21 cm. "The horse I wrote of in this book is not an exception, there's quite a few like him, he's not a fiction horse that's wrote about in a dream and made to do things that's against the nature of… Ler mais sobre este item

Dutton, NY [c1979;. Soft Cover. [5], [25] p., color illus. throughout; oblong, 23 x 24 cm. "The Mother Goose verses devoted to horses gain a fresh feeling, thanks to the colorful paintings that... seem to romp and prance..." The eight rhymes are If wishes were horses; Ride away!; This is the way the ladies ride; A farmer… Ler mais sobre este item

Rand McNally, Chicago. Story of a gentled but independent burro whose regular travels from Bright Angel Creek to the Kaibab Forest became an official trail. Includes two prospectors (one crooked), a sheriff, park rangers, tourists and cowboys; tells of Roosevelt's hunting trip to the Canyon and the building of the steel suspension bridge below Tonto Plateau. Hard… Ler mais sobre este item