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THOROUGHBRED RACING STOCK AND ITS ANCESTORS - THE AUTHENTIC ORIGIN OF PURE BLOOD

THOROUGHBRED RACING STOCK AND ITS ANCESTORS - THE AUTHENTIC ORIGIN OF PURE BLOOD

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From title-page: 'Many voices concerning the horses of the world with additional chapters from the notes of the late Lady Anne Blunt and Wilfred Scawen Blunt, on the Arabian breed, collected, edited and enlarged, with a history of the thoroughbred racehorse and the horses of the East and west, with 388 plates in half-tone and 21 plates in colour, and many diagrams in the text.'

Large 4to. 475pp+plates & fold-out map of the world. Cloth-covered boards. Boards rubbed and with a few splash-marks. Endpapers browned. Small tear to pull-out map. Good condition. First edition. A very heavy book which may incur extra postage costs.

Date
1938
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin
Author
Lady WENTWORTH

£75.00 (Code: 64828)

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