RIDING / POLO. THE BADMINTON LIBRARY.
by Weir, Robert, Captain; Brown, J. Moray; et al
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, 1891. 423 pp, 7 3/4" H. Decorated brown cloth, b&w illustrations, including tissue-covered frontispiece (collated). Contents - Riding: Introduction; Riding to Hounds; The Saddle-Horse; Training the Young Horse; Hints on Horsemanship; Hands and Seat; Race Riding; The Colonial Horse; Early History of Horsemanship. Polo: Introductory; The Antiquity of Polo; Polo in England; Polo in India; Rules and By-Laws of Polo; Ground, Balls, Sticks, Goal-Posts, &c.; Breeds of Ponies Suitable for Polo; The Training of Ponies; Some Famous Players and Ponies; How a Polo Match should be Played. Appendix: Lessons in Riding; Bibliography of Riding; Index. A previous owner's bookplate, signature and date (1907) on front pastedown; a previous owner's signature and date (1891) at top of title page; frontispiece tissue and title page have light browning; wrinkling to paper on inside rear hinge - also some splitting in paper but hinge is holding firmly; lean to spine; very light browning to pages; heavy browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block; heavy browning and dust darkening to top of text block; boards have light to moderate edge wear; wrinkling at top/bottom of spine; small bump at top corner of front boards; some loss of colour at bottom of spine - also a small area on front board and rear board at hinge; light soiling. Protected in a stiff mylar sleeve.. Hard Cover. Good-. Illus. by G.D. Giles, J. Stuart Allan, F. Dadd,.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30273
- Title
- RIDING / POLO. THE BADMINTON LIBRARY.
- Author
- Weir, Robert, Captain; Brown, J. Moray; et al
- Illustrator
- G.D. Giles, J. Stuart Allan, F. Dadd,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Horses, Horseback Riding, Polo, Horsemanship, Hunting, Riding to Hounds, Saddle Horses, Horse Training, Horse Racing, Polo, India, Polo Ponies, Polo Matches, Earl of Airlie, Australia, Baucher, Bending, Bits, Bitting, Bridles, Bridoons, Tom Cannon, Cavess
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports; Horses & Horsemanship;
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