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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Bunbury, Henry W.] Gambado, Geoffrey, pseud. |
| Title: |
An Academy for Grown Horseman; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling...By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice |
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London |
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Printed by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes |
| Date: |
1808 |
| Item # : |
169866 |
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331 |
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59 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1840 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes bound in one. xxiv, 36; xvii, [1], 81 pp. + plates. With 29 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates, with tissue-guards, including frontispieces. (Folio) 13½x10¼, bound in early twentieth century full crushed maroon morocco, ruled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, inner gilt ruling over morocco turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (their gilt imprint at rear). Third Edition. |
| Bunbury's classic and humorous treatment on horsemanship in parody, with comical accounts and illustrations throughout. This folio size issue is considered the more desirable edition, done in a very large type. An inscribed presentation on the front free endpaper: "To Charles William Dabney Jr., August 16th 1925. Commemorating his twenty-fifth year on earth and his last year of peace - from Early(?)." Charles W. Dabney Jr. (1855-1945) was a proponent of New South scientific agriculture and was the president of the University of Tennessee from 1887 to 1899 (Dabney Hall is named after him). At age thirty-two Dabney became the first Ph.D. to hold the presidency of the University of Tennessee. His illustrated bookplate is loosely laid in. |
| Condition: |
| Corner coloring retouched after being a bit bumped, minor nicks to edges, a few faint impressions; contents slightly darkened, occasional short edge tears; plates clean with nice hand-coloring; else near fine overall, in a sumptuous Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. |
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