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Verlag: London, J. Barker, c. 1800., 1800
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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8vo. Letterpress title page and 40 engr. plates by James and Henry Roberts, engr. index leaf, and publisher's 4-page catalogue (with woodcut image of cocks fighting). Stitched in wrappers. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he dies at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760, and this Barker edition some forty years later. This copy has no watermarks, but the books listed in J. Barker's catalogue of publications were mostly published in the 1790s. - Spine rubbed and bumped; slight wear to edges and corners. An excellent copy with two small tears imperceptibly restored. Of the utmost rarity: the only copy recorded at auction during the last decades is the Gloucester copy (Christie's, Jan. 27, 2006, lot 592). - Huth, p. 38. Cf. Podeschi 54.
Verlag: Sold by J. Barker, Russell-Street, Covent Garden, London, 1820
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
Second edition, originally published circa 1760. Letterpress title page, engraved contents page, 40 engraved portraits with text and vignettes beneath, all printed rectos only. [2], 40 ff. Leaves 25, 28 and 40, have engraved illustration at head and printed text beneath. 1 vols. 8vo. The Bay Arabian. Beautiful engraved book of portraits of noted British race horses active in the first half of the eighteenth century. The final plate shows the Bay Arabian, now known as the Godolphin Arabian, most famous race horse and thoroughbred sire of all, who died in 1753 "in his 29th year". The date comes from Huth. Uncommon. OCLC reports four locations for this edition. Huth, F.H. Works on Horses and Equitation, 38; See Podeschi, p. 54 Original rose cloth. Spine toned, else fine. Bookplates of A Kiefer Mayer and The Jockey Club Letterpress title page, engraved contents page, 40 engraved portraits with text and vignettes beneath, all printed rectos only. [2], 40 ff. Leaves 25, 28 and 40, have engraved illustration at head and printed text beneath. 1 vols. 8vo Second edition, originally published circa 1760.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
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[6] pp. plus 40 plates and index plate.Extremely rare second edition of a book of plates depicting famous race horses active in England in the period 1708 to 1755, each shown with its rider and/or stable-hand, and recording its owner, pedigree (one traced back to a horse imported from Aleppo for Oliver Cromwell in 1657), qualities and racing record. It is printed from the original plates of ca. 1760. The final plate shows the most famous race horse of all, the Godolphin Arabian, foaled in Yemen around 1724.With 2 small tears and a few minor spots and smudges, but still in good condition and mostly untrimmed, with nearly all deckles intact. Wrapper somewhat dirty and worn, with the foot of the back wrapper damage. A rare and remarkable record of race horses in 18th-century England.l Cf. ESTC N23610 & T50352 (3 copies of 1st ed. [1760?]); Huth, Horses and equitation, p. 38 ("1760" & "1820" eds.); KVK & WorldCat (3 copies, "[1820?]").