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Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors: the authentic origin of pure blood

Creator: Lady Judith Wentworth
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
WENTWORTH, Lady Judith.
Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors: the authentic origin of pure blood.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1938
$2,634 USD
Lady Wentworth's classic work on the thoroughbred horse, here in a fine morocco binding.

Lady Wenworth describes the history of racing stock as a complex compound of geography, history, geology, philology, ethnology, palaentology and half a dozen branches of sciences. There is an extensive coverage of all aspects of art, literature, & history which deal with the history of the Thoroughbred & the Arabian horse.

First edition. 4to, 475 pp., 21 coloured plates, 388 plates in half-tone, large folding mapof Arabia, numerous diagrams in the text, modern red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

Mellon 458.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Origin:	England
Period:	1920-1949
Creation Date:	1938
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	114253
Incollect Reference #:	791099

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