[Rarebooks] FS Frank Forester's Horse & Horsemanship II Volumes First Edition

[Michelle T Levick]

For your consideration: $375.00 PP

Forester, Frank; Henry William Herbert. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America, Volume I & II with Steel-Engraved Original Portraits of Celebrated Horses. New York: Stringer & Townsend & Co., 1857. First edition. Two compendious volumes on Equestrian History, finely illustrated. A total of 14 tissue covered Engravings on Steel, printed on India paper. Each volume has a Vignette on the pre-title page by F.O.C. Darley, engraved by R. Hinshelwood. A total of 44 Engravings on Wood executed by N. Orr. Volume I: The Horse, his Origin, Native Land, History, and Natural History; History of the English Blood Horse; American Blood Horse; Blood Horse in Tennessee; Blood Horse in New York; Pedigrees, Performances and Anecdotes of Famous American Races of the Modern Day, Memoir of Sir Archy; Memoir of Diomed, sire of Sir Archy and Duroc; Memoir of American Eclipse, Great Match Race between Eclipse and Sir Henry; Pedigree and Performances of Ariel; Ariel and Flirtilla Race; Pedigree, Characteristics and Performances of Black Maria, Wagner and Grey Eagle; Wagner and Grey Eagle's Races; ; Pedigree, Characteristics, Performances and Races of Boston, Fashion, Lexington, Lecomte, Arrow, Pryor; The Great Contest of Lextington and Lecomte; The Great Match of against Time - Lexington; The Great Race at New Orleans between Lexington and Lecomte; Pryor and Lecomte; Comparative Estimate of American and British Racers; English and American Views; Comparisons of Speed; Best American and English Horses; The Thoroughbred racehorse; Best Four-mile Heat Races; To Ipsus of England, by Observer; The True Utility of the Thoroughbred racehorse; Essential Points in the Thoroughbred Horse; Observations on Imported Stallions; List of Stallions Imported from England; List of Imported Mares and Fillies. Fold-out Pedigrees: English Eclipse, Diomed, Castianira (Dam of Sir Archy), Leviathan, Priam, Glencoe, Trustee; American Eclipse, Fashion, Boston (1833-1850), Richmond Va., the Sire of Lexington, America's leading stud for many years. Etc. Tables of Stock, of Foreign and Native Sires, Winning Horses from 1830's through 1850's; Summary of Results. Vol. II.: Horses, American Varieties and Breeds; Vermont Draught; Conestoga; Canadian; Indian Pony; Narragansett Pacer; Stock, Ohio and the West; Michigan; Iowa; The Morgan Horse, Memoir and Description of the Justin Morgan; The Trotting Horse, Account of the Celebrated Horse Topgallant, Memoir of Flora Temple, Pedigree, Performances, etc., Best time of Record, Mile Heats, Two-mile Heats, Three-mile Heats, Four Miles, Pacing; Misc. Examples of Extraordinary Performances of American Trotters, Lists of American Winning Trotting Horses in 1856, Principles of Breeding; Principles and Practice of Breeding for the Turf, etc., Theory of Generation, In-and-In Breeding, Out-Crossing, Best Mode of Breeding for Racing Purposes, Selection of Brood Mare, Choice of Stallions, Best Age to Breed from, Best Time for Breeding, Thoughts on General Breeding; The Stud Farm, Management of Mare and Foal, Breaking, Practical Horsemanship, Breaking and Breeding, Baucher's System; of the Forces of the Horse; Flexings of the Horse; Stabling and Stable Architecture. City Stable and Coach House, Small and Large Country Stable, Stable Management, Horses Food, Condition, Farm Horses, Summering in Stable; Riding, Driving, and Road Management; Treatise on Horse-Shoeing; Diseases and Medicine; Rules of Racing and Trotting Courses, Index. Henry William Herbert pseudonym of Frank Forester, born London, 1807 -1858, New York. English novelist, Equestrian and Fishing sports writer. Very Good. Cloth.
Original brown cloth stamped boards, gilt illustration of two horses, decorative gilt title and illustration to spine. Boards mildly sunned, gilt bright. Vol. I. Front lower joint cracked 4", tears, chips and fraying to joint. Extremities rubbed, spine ends bumped with fraying. Front hinge cracked at blank f.e.p. and title page, blue end papers. Text block tight in covers. 552 pp. Vol. II., rubbing of extremities, spine ends bumped, tail of spine small chip. Front hinge starting at pre-title page. 575 pp. In heavy archival clear protective wraps. 4 to. First Edition. Heavy oversized. `
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