[Rarebooks] For Sale: General Grant's Arabian Horses

[Norman Kane]

HUNTINGTON, RANDOLPH.  HISTORY IN BRIEF OF "LEOPARD" AND "LINDEN," 
GENERAL GRANT'S ARABIAN STALLIONS, PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE SULTAN OF 
TURKEY IN 1879, ALSO THEIR SONS "GENERAL BEALE," "HEGIRA," AND 
"ISLAM," BRED BY RANDOLPH HUNTINGTON. ALSO REFERENCE TO THE 
CELEBRATED STALLION "HENRY CLAY."  [Phila]: Printed for the Author by 
J. B. Lippincott Co., 1885.  First edition.
Quarto, original gold-stamped cloth, spine ends, corners & edges 
rubbed. 66pp. Fronts &  4 plates, each with tissue (tissue at fronts. 
wrinkled), several  signed
in the plate by H. S. Kittredge (one reading "from a painting") & one 
by A. J. Schultz.   Each plate is copyrighted by 
Huntington.  Apparently privately printed.
$275.00    (Trade Discount 10 %)


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Proprietor: Norman Kane (50 years as an antiquarian bookseller.)