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HORSES -- SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). The Horseman's Manual: being a Treatise on Soundness, the Law of Warranty, and generally on the Laws relating to Horses. London: Henry Butterworth, 1831. 12° (190 x 111mm). (Light browning.) Original printed boards, uncut (spine a little rubbed, covers a trifle marked), in a blue cloth folder. FIRST EDITION of Surtees' first book. Mellon/Podeschi 141.
[BADCOCK, John]. Conversations on Conditioning. The Grooms' Oracle, and Pocket-Stable Directory. London: for the Author, 1829. 12° (179 x 103mm). Hand-coloured and folding aquatint frontispiece after Samuel Alken, half-title. (A few leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary polished calf gilt, label on spine, marbled edges (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Rose Tunno (circular gilt vellum armorial bookplate). Mellon/Podeschi 133.
GIBBONS, Thomas. Horsemanship: teaching the Art of Manage Riding...and breaking Horses systematically. London: for the author, 1825. 8° (217 x 133mm). One plate and 8 full-page diagrams in the text. Original cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine (a trifle rubbed and soiled). Mellon/Podeschi 122; and 5 others on horses including: Joseph Goodwin's A New System of Shoeing Horses, (London, 1820), John Tindall's Tindall's Yorkshire Farriery, (Huddersfield, 1814) and T. Parkinson's A Treatise on the Management of Parturient Animals, (Nottingham, 1812). (8)
[BADCOCK, John]. Conversations on Conditioning. The Grooms' Oracle, and Pocket-Stable Directory. London: for the Author, 1829. 12° (179 x 103mm). Hand-coloured and folding aquatint frontispiece after Samuel Alken, half-title. (A few leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary polished calf gilt, label on spine, marbled edges (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Rose Tunno (circular gilt vellum armorial bookplate). Mellon/Podeschi 133.
GIBBONS, Thomas. Horsemanship: teaching the Art of Manage Riding...and breaking Horses systematically. London: for the author, 1825. 8° (217 x 133mm). One plate and 8 full-page diagrams in the text. Original cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine (a trifle rubbed and soiled). Mellon/Podeschi 122; and 5 others on horses including: Joseph Goodwin's A New System of Shoeing Horses, (London, 1820), John Tindall's Tindall's Yorkshire Farriery, (Huddersfield, 1814) and T. Parkinson's A Treatise on the Management of Parturient Animals, (Nottingham, 1812). (8)
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