Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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CLARKE, MRS. J. STIRLING
The habit and the horse; a treatise on female equitation. London: Day & Son, 1860. Second edition. Original publisher's cloth, red with pictorial gilt stamp of a female rider on the upper cover. 12 1/2 inches (32 cm), all edges gilt. vii, 216 pp., with frontispiece and five plates in tinted lithography, plus three full-page diagrams. Spine torn with loss, text block somewhat shaken, some foxing to plates.
Scarce in any edition, an important work on female equitation.
Sold for $344
Estimated at $200 - $300
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CLARKE, MRS. J. STIRLING
The habit and the horse; a treatise on female equitation. London: Day & Son, 1860. Second edition. Original publisher's cloth, red with pictorial gilt stamp of a female rider on the upper cover. 12 1/2 inches (32 cm), all edges gilt. vii, 216 pp., with frontispiece and five plates in tinted lithography, plus three full-page diagrams. Spine torn with loss, text block somewhat shaken, some foxing to plates.
Scarce in any edition, an important work on female equitation.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
