Search Results: Horses Dogs and other animals from Madoc Books

London: Author and printed by J. Purser , 1766. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. STUBBS George. First edition, First issue, 1766, 24 fine engraved plates In re-backed contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, some blind tooling, edges bumped & worn. Spine with gilt tooling, plus gilt titles to the original calf label. Internally, title & reader leaves followed by 24 fine engraved plates, all washed, depicting 36 horses, accompanied by 47 printed pages (some light browning), lacking the errata slip, a few leaves with 1 or 2 tiny pin holes to margins, 'To the Reader' and final leaf with repaired tears to verso, small ink stamp to title and one other text leaf, a couple of other minor professional repairs, marbled endpapers, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box. (560*444 mm). (Huth p42; ESTC T147211; Garrison and Morton 308.1; Lennox-Boyd Stubbs, pp. 165-188; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 57; Nissen ZBI… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Complete. Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author, 1st ed, Near Fine, 1894. In full green morocco (by the Chelsea Bindery), gilt edge tooling & gilt horse head vignette (of Rashid). Spine, gilt tooling, titles & palm trees. Internally, half title, frontis (coloured), title page in red & black with Arabic text woodcut, [5], (vi-xix), [1], [3], 4-144, 147-148, 145-146, 151-152, 149-154, 159-160, 157-158, 161-256, 263-264, 259-262, 257-258, 265- 411 pp, [1] (odd pagination but complete), 11 un-numbered pls (mostly coloured, with 2 double paged) + 1 gilt board head, 25 illustrations within text, 4 tables, 1 map to pocket at rear (large folding coloured), a.e.g., gilt board edges & turn ins, green marbled endpapers, binders stamp to fpd, printed by William Blackwood and Sons. Inscribed by the author to Sir Alfred Lyall in the year of publication, also with… Read More

Edinburgh: London.: Adam and Charles Black: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1843. A valuable contribution to the important division of chemical knowledge of which it treats. In c1900 half calf over blue marbled boards, small paper tear, some blind tooling, corners & edges very lightly bumped & worn. Spine, attractive decorative gilt tooling & titles, raised bands, edges rubbed. Internally, [3], (iv-ix), [1], [1], 2-702 pp, grey endpapers, text block edges sprinkled red, no inscriptions, printed by John Stark, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh, numerous illustrations within text, occasional light spotting. 1st and only edition. (Allibone 2404) Thomson, chemist, whose outstanding pedagogic feature of his professorship was his emphasis on the laboratory teaching of practical chemistry. In autumn 1818 he extracted from the university a laboratory, and thus became the… Read More

LOndon Bazaar House, 54, Srury Lane: The Bazaar, Exchange & Mart" Office, 1923. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Uncommon Welsh Terrier title In soft printed paper covers, Spine chipped with some loss. Internally, [4] adverts, half title, [2], [6], [1], 2-96 pp, adverts to eps, numerous illustrations within text. 1923, 3rd ed. (184*123 mm)

London: Newbond-Street: J. Brindley, 1743. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. DIEPENBKE. CAUKERCKEN. PARR R. JODE Peter de. ANDREA.. 1743, 2 vols, 62 plates - complete, 1st English edition of the Duke of Newcastle's celebrated work on the training of horses. Two volumes in contemporary speckled calf, gilt edge & corner tooling, some wear to corners & edges. Spines, raised bands, worn gilt tooling, gilt titles to calf labels, edges worn, some loss. Internally, Vol 1, additional double page engraved title (French 1658), half title, [6], (v-viii), [1], 142 pp, [4] index, 42 pls (double page), 6 pls (as header), 41 illustrations within text, 5 Decorative initial letters, (Signatures [2] ff, a-a3, C-Mm1, Gg1-2 additions). Vol 2, [1] title leaf, 3-4, [2] contents, [1], 2-4, [1] ff pl list, [1], 6-36, 33-138 pp, [14] dictionary, 20 pls, (includes 2 double page, some printed in sepia, 8 trimmed and mounted to 8 leaves), 2 pls as headers, 3 footers.… Read More

Fleet Street, London: B White, 1781. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BANKS Joseph. Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green and red leather labels. Internally, board edges in gilt, some offsetting, Armorial bookplates of John Harrison to fpds, engraved titlepages. Vol 1, (xxiv), [1], 284 pp, 33 B&W plates (including the eng tp), 1 illustration within text. Vol 2, [2], 285-566 pp, [14] index, 22 plates, 1 illustration within text. Was an expansion on his 1771 -Synopsis of Quadrupeds- . BOUND WITH Genera of Birds, London B White, 1781, 2nd ed (1st was published in 1773), engraved title page with vignette, [6], [1], (ii-xxv), [1] explanation, [1], 2-68 pp, [2], 16 plates. Some light water staining and browning, not detracting. A… Read More

Fleet Street, London: B White, 1781. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BANKS Joseph. 1st ed, 52 pls, VG, small 4to. Two volumes in modern quarter calf with marbled boards, corners lightly bumped and worn, some blind tooling. New spines, raised bands, blind and decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to maroon leather labels. Internally, new endpapers, engraved title pages, text block edges sprinkled red. Vol 1, (xxiv), [1], 2-284 pp, 32 plates, 1 engraved tp, 1 vignette. Vol 2, [2], 285-566 pp, [14] index, 22 plates, 1 engraved tp, 1 vignette. a2-4 a couple of small marginal repairs to each leaf, U2 with slight torn margin, some light offsetting and spotting. A nice set. (ESTC T113535. Lowndes 18128. Brunet 489. Allibone 1553). Was an expansion on his 1771, -Synopsis of Quadrupeds- . Pennant, naturalist, traveller, and writer, who for one modern scholar should be considered 'the leading British zoologist after Ray and before… Read More

Boston: Charles A Stone, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG+, 26 photographic illustrations, privately printed, 1913. In its original cream covers, a little bumped & worn at edges, black ink titles. Spine, worn, ink titles & date, edges bumped. Internally, half title, frontis, [7],. (viii-xiii), [1], [2], 3-52 pp, [1], 26 illustrations, title page ion red & black, top edge trimmed, remainder not, some leaves uncut. (Folio, 126*192 mm).

London: John Wolfe, 1587. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The rare first edition in contemporary calf, blind tooling to border. Sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, gilt title to calf label. Internally, [6], 1-92, [4], 99-195, [8], 204-285 pp but 301, [2] table, odd pagination but complete, pagination: [1], A3-N4, O-V4, Aa-Gg4, lacks initial blank & 2ff, following 2D5 (cancels), woodcut device to first title, titles of second & third parts within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials & head pieces, crease to fep & ep, book label fpd (Niall Kenny). ESTC list 1 copy in the UK & 3 in the US only. (179*129 mm). (ESTC S112382. Fussell1-p9. Huth - Works on Horses & Equitation p12). "The second booke intreating of the gouernment of horses" (O1r) and "The third booke intreating of the ordering of sheep and goatees [sic], hogs and dogs" (2A1r) each have separate dated title page; register and… Read More