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Stringer & Townsend,, NY:, 1857. Book Condition: Good. First Edition. Two volumes. Small 4to, pp. 551; 576. Tan cloth, blind stamped, with pictorial stamping and lettering in gilt. Illustrated wtih full-page steel engravings and many wood engravings in text. Worn. 2 engraved half-titles with vignettes, pp.552, 576, 14 steel engraved plates, all with tissues and captions, numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout , original purple cloth, gilt decorated on upper cover and spines, enclosed in quarter morocco box, The first volume contains a "brief history with some account of the natural history of the horse." The second volume " perhaps, of broader interest, will be found to contain accounts of the general horsestock of America; the horsestock of the various States; the various distinct families, . with memoirs and pedigrees |
