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4to. (11 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches). First edition. [A3] B-U4 X2. [i]-[vi] [1]-155 [1]. 162 pp. 18 lithograph plates on India paper by Gauci and Chalon after Stubbs, Seymour, Marshall, and Coope. Title Page, Contents, Errata Slip, Introduction, Chapters I-XI, Appendix. Publisher's quarter green cloth and olive boards with blue paper title-label on spine, set in a brown cloth clamshell case titled in gilt on spine Provenance: R. N. H. Moore Stevens bookplate on front pastedown. A first edition of Broadhurst's study of the conditions of horses and cattle in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially in regard to the changes in techniques for their domestication. With eighteen finely rendered lithographs of both racing and show horses after the preeminent English horse painter George Stubbs. Not a proponent of the modern breeding and rearing practices for domesticated animals, particularly those for horses, Broadhurst examines the changes to cattle, racehorses, saddle horses, and the cavalry from the eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth century. His text is subdivided into separate investigations of each quadruped variety as they were differentiated by specific domestication practices designed to maximize each animal's potential benefit to humans. To illustrate his most significant section, "Racehorses," Broadhurst employs 17 lithograph plates by Maxim Gauci and Henry Bernard Chalon after George Stubbs, as well as Seymour, Marshall, and Coope. These beautiful horse prints provide visuals to discussion of animal husbandry practices and the changes in racehorses over the two centuries. Topics Broadhurst covers include "great tasks performed by racehorses," "artificial qualities, e.g. speed," and "our present racers." Huth p.127. Loder p.375. Mellon/Podeschi 150.…

Condizione: Good. First edition, 2 vols. 8vo; 13 x 22,1 cm. foldout maps at the end of each volume, foldout landscape lithograph at beginning both vols. Complete with 13 plates and 2 maps. New half goatskin by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov with the original morocco spines preserved.Sir Henry George Ward was the first British Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico, between 1825 and 1827. His primary goal was to prevent the United States from taking Mexican territory in the westward drive of "Manifest Destiny". These works, illustrated by his wife, provide an analysis of Mexico's mining activity and prospects.LIST OF MAPS:1. Map of Mexico, with tears, without loss;2. Map of Routes to the Principal Mining Districts in the Central States of Mexico [below border line] London, Published by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Strt. April 1828 Engraved by Sidy. Hall, Bury Strt. Bloomsby. 40.3 x 55.5 cm (In. Vol. 2);LIST OF PLATES:1. Mexico. From the Azotea of the House of H. M's Mission, San Cosme [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. T.M. Baynes lithog. Uncolored folded lithograph;2. Agave Mexicana (uncolored aquatint)];3. Canada de Marfil, Entry to Guanaxuato [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored folded aquatint;4. Puente del Rey [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored aquatint;5. Collegiate Church, of Nuestra Senora de Guadaloupe [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. T.M. Baynes lithog. Uncolored lithograph;6. View of the Town of Jalapa, with the Coffre de Perote [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Published by H. Colburn, London, 1828. On Stone by W. Gauci [below title] Printed by Engelmann & Co. Uncolored folded lithograph;7. Chapultepec [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored aquatint;8. Hacienda de Chapingo [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored folded aquatint;9. An Arastre, or Crushing Mill [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored aquatint;10. The Galeria of the Hacienda de Salgado [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored folded aquatint;11. Patio of the Hacienda de Salgado [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Uncolored folded aquatint;12. The Ascent to Catorce (uncolored folded aquatint);13. Interior of an Indian Hut, El Bozal [below image] Drawn by Mrs. H.G. Ward. Pub: by H. Colburn, London, 1828. J. Clark, sculp. Hand-colored aquatint which includes an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe hanging on the wall.REFERENCES: Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, II, 688: "It is interesting to see the presence of aquatints and lithographs together in the book, and to notice, as Prideaux suggests, the superiority of the aquatints." Hill II, 1826. Palau 374005. Prideaux, pp. 257, 355 (incorrectly calling for 18 plates). Raines, p. 215. Sabin 101302. Streeter 1104: "Classic book on Mexico as the main reason for its inclusion, General Arthur G. Wavell's account of Texas. However, I hope the rarity of accounts of Texas in the 1820s makes its inclusion worth while. A minor reason is its inclusion of Simon H.G. Bourne's account of Sonora and Cinaloa, which is referred to in the note to Bourne's Observations, London, 1828.…