[Rarebooks] FS: A work on early English horse racing w/18 lithograph plates. London: 1836

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Broadhurst, J.]. A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FORM AND CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH RACER AND SADDLE-HORSE During the Last and Present Centuries. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates of Horses. London: Thomas Hookham. 1836. Lg. 4to. v,(1),155,(1)pp. Plus 18 mounted India proof lithographs of famous racing and riding horses, each with a tissue guard and a facing page of description. These early lithographs are by Hullmandel. Original patterned green cloth, spine extremities rubbed, orig. paper spine label (a bit chipped). A presentation copy inscribed, "From the Author," on the front free endpaper. A few of the plates with an old water stain at the fore-margin.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
An important early book on British horse racing.

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