With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...

Infiniment rare, surtout en couleurs' (Thiébaud). A remarkable series of lithographs of horses, beautifully hand-coloured. A group of these plates ...

A fine and very rare set of racing prints.Sparrow notes its rarity in 1922, 'rare no doubt, because so many of the copies have been broken up in o...

Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was...

Alken's echoing of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. This reworking of The High Mettled Racer depicts the horse as foal, colt, race horse, hunter, ...

Rare. The complete series of lithographs for John Doyle's Life of the Race Horse, published between 1822 and 1823. John Doyle (1797-1868), an Iris...

Royal copy in fine red morocco. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King ...

A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.

This copy with the title-pages for the second edition but the text to the first; with 58 engraved plates (compared with first edition 60 plates, s...

The preferred hand-coloured issue. First edition of this charming work, in the preferred hand-coloured issue, in an elegant signed binding.Aubry a ...

The art of horsemanship. The rare Zürich edition of this lavishly illustrated work, first published in 1727. The work opens with a series of 7 attr...

First edition; 8vo (222 x 130 mm), engraved frontispiece of Lord George Bentinck (who is featured within), small mark to edge, otherwise internall...

RARE. Humorous prints of a steeplechase in which the mounts are shown as hogs, one of the prints is dated 1831. A very rare collection intended f...

First and only edition. Uncommon study of different breeds of Russian horses. Complete with 20 full page lithographic plates after drawings by Dr....

The secret language of Jewish horse traders. A German Horse Manual with a Jewish-Jargon-dictionary supplement. 'Rare first edition of this original...

First edition; 4to; vi, 155pp., 18 lithographed plates of horses by Gauci and Chalon after Stubbs, Marshall etc. and printed by Hullmandel, all on...

The forerunner of the bicycle, the 'hobby' or 'dandy horse' was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais in France in 1817. It was introduced ...

The forerunner of the bicycle, the 'hobby' or 'dandy horse' was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais in France in 1817. It was introduced t...

This dramatic pair amply captures the excitement of this famous race, when the four finest race horses bred in France at the time were pitted agai...