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Item Details
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| Author: |
Adams, John |
| Title: |
An Analysis of Horsemanship; Teaching the Whole Art of Riding, in the Manege, Military, Hunting, Racing and Travelling System. Together with the Method of Breaking Horses for Every Purpose to which those Noble Animals are Adapted |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
James Cundee |
| Date: |
1805 |
| Item # : |
172232 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
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2 |
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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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$ 1092 |
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| Description: |
| 3 volumes xxxvi, 261 + [1] ad; [2], 321 + [1] ad; [2], 288, [20] pp. With 20 copper-engraved plates, including the frontispiece portrait, 5 of them folding. 8¼x5, later half calf & marbled boards, |
| Important work on horsemanship, and the training of horses. One plate has a string "bridle" attached to moveable horse head, so one can practice the steering mechanism. |
| Condition: |
| Some light foxing within, darkening to the folding plates, near fine condition. |
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