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Subject Terms Horses -- Breeding.

1. The genealogy of the English race horse : with the natural history of his progenitors, from the earliest times down to the period when foreign blood was introduced into this kingdom : collected from the best authorities : to which is added, the general practice of the most judicious breeders, whereby hey have improved & perfected our breed of blood horses so as to have acquired a decided pre-eminence and superiority in the essential points of size, strength, beauty, speed, bottom &. &c. over those of other countries : with observations upon the present improved method of breeding for the turf : of the selection of stallions : choice of blood mares : crossing the blood, or mixed races : treatment of brood mares and young colts intended for racing, &c. &c. : the result of observation and experience during an acquaintance for many years with the turf / by T. Hornby Morland.

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Creator:: Morland, Thomas Hornby
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: viii, 160 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The horse-breeder's guide and hand book : embracing one hundred tabulated pedigrees of the principal sires, with full performances of each and best of their get, covering the season of 1883, with a few of the distinguished dead ones / by S.D. Bruce ...

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Creator:: Bruce, Sanders Dewees, 1825–1902
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xii, 205, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An authentic history of the celebrated horse American Eclipse : containing an accurate account of his great race with Henry for $20,000 a side, on the 27th day of May, 1823 : together with his pedigree and other performances, with some general information on the subject of the turf, and the means adopted at various times to improve the breed of horses.

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Creator:: Conrad, Ephraim, 1769?-1834
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 34 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The book of the horse (thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred) : saddle and harness, British and foreign / by S. Sidney.

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Creator:: Sidney, Samuel, 1813–1883
Date:: [1875?]
Physical Description:: 604 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Horse breeding recollections / by G. Lehndorff.

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Creator:: Lehndorff, Georg Hermann Albrecht, graf von, 1833–1914
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: [8], 124, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries : illustrated by eighteen plates of horses.

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Date:: . Hookham,
Physical Description:: v, [1],155, [1] pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Horse-breeder's handbook : containing introductory comments on the pedigrees and performances of seventy-eight of the principal stallions advertised to cover in Great Britain and Ireland during the season 1898, etc. ; Together with a history of the rise and progress of the British stud including the tabulated pedigrees and full particulars of fifty of the most famous blood-sires from whom it has had its origin / by Joseph Osborne.

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Creator:: Osborne, Joseph
Date:: [1898]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An authentic history of the celebrated horse American Eclipse : containing an account of his pedigree and performances, with some general information on the subject of the turf, and the means adopted at various times to improve the breed of horses : embellished with a correct likeness of this famous horse, engraved on wood, in the best style by Dr. A. Anderson.

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Creator:: Conrad, Ephraim, 1769?-1834
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 6, [3], 8-37, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The perfect horse : how to know him, how to breed him, how to train him, how to shoe him, how to drive him / by William H.H. Murray ; with an introduction by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ; and a treatise on agriculture and the horse, by Hon. George B. Loring ; containing illustrations of the best trotting stock-horses in the United States, done from life, with their pedigrees, records, and full descriptions.

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Creator:: Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840–1904
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 480 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The horse how to breed and rear him : race-horse : hunter : hack : troop-horse : draught-horse : shire-horse : carriage-horse : pony. / by William Day ; author of "The race-horse in training," "Reminiscences of the turf," etc.

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Creator:: Day, William, 1823–1908
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: [2], xxiii, [1], 453, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Young race-horses (suggestions for rearing) by Sir Walter Gilbey, bart.

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Creator:: Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1831–1914
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 l., [7]-33 p. incl. front., illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts