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Published by William Briggs, Toronto, 1908
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Canadian Ed, 197 pages + plates. Tan cloth on boards, black lettering & drawing of dog on front. Cover has edge-wear, smudges from handling, corners bumped, Endpapers lightly age-tanned, tiny bookstore label on bottom of rear endpaper. Interior clean & tight. Illustrated with a tissue-protected frontispiece & 11 other full page half-tone plates (all present). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Virtue and Co., Limited, London
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third edition, no date [1932], xi + 400 pages + plates. Dark red cloth on boards, gilt lettering & gilt head of German Shepherd on spine, gilt decoration, drawing of terrier on front cover. Cover has wear at corners & edges, otherwise clean & bright. Previous owner's name neatly written on top rh corner of front free endpaper. Interior very clean, all pages tight. Illustrated with photographs. This is a large heavy book & may require additional shipping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by SIDNEY APPLETON, LONDON, 1907
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Grey-Blue cloth boards with dark blue titles and horse head illustration to front board. 185 x 125 mm approx. x + 192 pp + 4pp of publisher's adverts. First Edition 1907. Practical guide pertaining to the commoner ailments and accidents affecting the horse. Volume in a series entitled "Sidney Appleton's Handbooks for Animal Owners" and seemingly now quite uncommon. Good (Book- Spine sunned and moderate shelf soiling to boards. Offset Browning to end papers. No previous owner name or insc. Margins of pages of book block have some finger soiling and occasional light foxing spots. Binding generally sound with no cracks to end papers but clearly a reference work which has seen frequent service). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
Published by Macmillan, 1912
Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. An exhaustive 1st edition compendium, much pertaining to horse health and ailments. A rare volume in green pictorial cloth boards bumped and rubbed at tips. Book is approx 6" x 8.5" x 3" thick. Titles worn on cover, appears as if something has spilled at one time taking some of the layers of white letting with it but it is still legible (see pic). Inner hinges fine, page block sound and tight but occasionally wavy from past moisture but there is no musty smell. Contents include: The Shire and the Cart Horse, The Clydesdale Horse, The Suffolk, Remarks on Van and Cross-Bred Horses, The Cleveland Bay, The Yorkshire Coach-Horse, The British Thoroughbred as it is To-Day, On the Breeding of Racehorses, The Hunter, General Hints on Jumping, The Hackney, Cobs and Ponies, Foreign Breeds of Horses, The Buying of Blood-Stock, Histories of some Celebrated Horses, The Antiquity of the Horse, The Arabian Horse, The American Trotter, Polo Ponies, Vices and Objectionable Habits of Horses in and out of the Stable, Breaking for Saddle, Horsemanship, The Age of the Horse, In the Harness and Saddle-Room, Stables and Stable Management, Carriage of Horses by Rail, Structure of the Skeleton of a Horse, Purchasing Horses, Lameness, Injuries Arising Through Defective Action, Law in Relation to Horses, Diseases Affecting Bones, Fractures and Dislocations, Sprained and Inflamed Tendons, Anatomical Outlines of the Foot, Diseases of the Foot, Ailments Especially Affecting Foals and Colts, Specific Diseases, Constitutional or Systematic Diseases, Diseases Affecting Brood Mares, The Digestive Apparatus and Diseases Affecting Same, Diseases of the Liver, Some Affections of the Respiratory Organs, Affections of the Urinary Organs, The Nervous System, Hernia or Ruptures, Skin Complaints, The Eye and Eye Affections, Wounds and Their Treatment, Mineral and Vegetable Poisons - Their Recognition and Antidotes, Some Drugs and Their Uses: Also Their Doses and Recipes, Index.
Published by R. A. Everett & Co. Ltd., London, 1905
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Edition, xvi + 251 pages. Maroon cloth on bevelled boards, gilt lettering, gilt St. Bernard on front cover. Minor wear to corners & spine edges, a small scrape on back cover. Front free endpaper has been removed. Tiny bookstore label at bottom of front pastedown, previous owner's name written neatly at top & bottom of half title page. Some foxing on the preliminary pages to pg vii. In this early work on the 'non-sporting' dogs, the author has included chapters on: The St. Bernard, Mastiff, Great Dane, Newfoundland, Rough & Smooth Coated Collies, Old English Sheepdog, Bull-Terrier, Black and Tan or Manchester Terrier, & the White English Terrier. The Non-Sporting chapters are on the Bulldog, Poodle and Dalmatian. There are also chapters on the care & management of the dog, breeding & canine medicine & surgery. Illustrated with photographs. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.