HIPPOLOGY, HORSEBACK RIDING 5 works, 6 volumes: - Lot 66

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HIPPOLOGY, HORSEBACK RIDING 5 works, 6 volumes: - Lot 66
HIPPOLOGY, HORSEBACK RIDING 5 works, 6 volumes: - DU HA S (Charles). Advice for Horse Breeders. Paris, Librairie Centrale d'agriculture et de Jardinage, Goin, (1867); in-12. 390 pp. Bound in contemporary bottle-green half-maroquin, ribbed spine. - Well bound, foxing throughout the volume. First edition and only early edition. (Mennessier I, p. 611). - LAGONDIE (Joseph GUILHEN, Count of). Hippology and Riding. The Horse and Its Rider. A Practical Guide to the Knowledge, Training, Preservation, and Improvement of Racehorses, Hunting Horses, and War Horses... A two-volume work illustrated with numerous vignettes... Paris, Rothschild, 1874; 2 vols., in-12 (10.4 x 15.8 cm). XII.- 436 pp. - VIII- 426 pp. Contemporary cherry-red half-maroquin bindings, ribbed spines, gilt heads. - A pleasant copy, fresh and well-bound. First edition; subsequent editions were compiled into a single volume. “[The work] contains all the parts of Stonehenge already published and, in addition, excerpts from several other English works, with notes by the translator that make it an entirely new book...” (Mennessier I, col. 25). - LEMICHEL (Eugène) - PELLIER (Jules-Théodore). 2 works. Bound in one in-12 volume, bottle-green half-maroquin, ribbed spine, marbled edges. - Good condition. 1/ LEMICHEL (Eugène). The Horse. Characteristics, breeds, hygiene, anatomy, care, etc. Followed by a study on the mule and its various breeds... 2ff.—182 pages- 1 folio - 211 pages, with vignette illustrations. - Course in equine science taught at St.-Cyr. Mennessier (II, p. 89) was his student. 2/ PELLIER (Jules-Théodore, Jr.). Practical Riding. Second edition. Paris, Hachette, 1863; 2ff.—182 pages—1f. — In this edition, the chapter “The Rider’s Position” is new. (Mennessier II, p. 297). Some passages underlined. - SAINT-ALBIN (A. de). Horse Racing in France. Paris, Hachette, 1890, in-8, 2ff.—IVpp.—475 pages—full-page photogravures included in the pagination, 66 vignettes by Crafty. Contemporary half-maroquin binding in ultramarine, ribbed spine, marbled edges. - A few scattered, light foxing spots. (Bibliothèque du Sport Collection). Stud farms; training; racetracks; portraits of trainers, jockeys, and “sportsmen”; etc. Includes a dictionary of horse racing terms and a list of owners at the end. (Mennessier II, p. 475).
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