Weir robert brown j moray (47 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illustrated hardcover boards, no dj. Light shelfwear and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and tight. 423 pages, index, b&w illus.

Hardcovers. Condizione: Fair. - - - - - -THE BADMINTON LIBRARY-- This Volume Includes RIDING and POLO- - - -Badminton editor is His Grace the Duke of Beaufort. Authors of RIDING are Captain Robert Weir, His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, The Earl of Onslow, E. L. Anderson, Alfred E. T. Watson. Author of POLO is J. Moray Brown. Illustrations by G. D. Giles - - -Brown cloth with the classic Badminton illustration and cover lettering--- the original Classic Badminton Binding--, also with green sturdy corners applied by former owner, thick book, 7 1/2" tall, weighs 3 pounds. .448 pages. With frontispiece illustration and so many other illustrations that it takes 4 pages to list them. Revised with additions, this book was published 1895. . . .Book in FAIR/POOR CONDITION- TEXT IS COMPLETE, pages are clean and bright and very readable, illustrations are clean. However, few pages are detached, and present.- - exlibrary book with spine label and bookplate and marks inside rear cover. wear spine. Originally a pretty book, still with great content and the book is complete. Image available. This book is a classic, and worth re-binding or used as is. no dust jacket. …

Condizione: Good. 1905. New Edition. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

hardback, 8vo, xiii,423pp, numerous illustrations, owner's bookplate on endpaper, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, brown cloth pictorial, slightly rubbed, Good condition.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated pictorial brown cloth (lightly rubbed - otherwise VG). Pp. xiii + 423, with b&w plates and illus in text (pages a little spotted; no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Longmans Green & Co, 1891. 1st Edition. Oddly signed and dated 1885 by William Day (Jay?).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, illustd,423pp, orig brown pictorial cloth, just a very small bit edge rubbed ,a vg clean tight volume, has "volxv" in small letters to top right of half title page, owners name to verso of front end paper, small bit of foxing, contents vg and sound,heavy book overseas orders will incur extra postage request, a nice volume of this badminton library series. Book.…

De luxe 2nd edn. 8vo (8 x 5¾ ins). Original gilt decorated blue morocco on orange cloth, top edge gilt (rather rubbed and worn at edges and upper board partly discoloured - in protective cover). Pp. xiii + 423, with b&w plates and illus in text (some spotting throughout; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd Edition. 1895 3rd edition, revised. Decorated brown cloth, gilt, black, white titles. Illustrated eps with repeat design of swan and ship. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Condition: Very good. Minor shelf wear. Owner s name to ffep. Eps browned. Scattered foxing, some pages significantly so. Size: 7.5x6in / 19x15cm. 448pp. Weight: 1kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 423pp, original pictorial brown cloth, tiny bit of edge rubbing and bit of minor discolouration to bit of rear board, but nothing to worry about , binding is vg clean and tight, old name to front end paper, contents have a modest bit of foxing, and are vg clean and tight , a nice volume in this badminto lib series, heavy volume overseas orders will incur extra postage request. Book.…

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1905). (1891) 1905 new edition. 8vo (136 x 195mm). Ppxiv,434 + 4pp ads. B&w engraved plates from painting & photographs. Decorative brown cloth, printed in black, blue, white and gilt, with design of a sportsman's study on upper board, horse & rider on spine, uniform with other titles in the series. Slightly shaken, some foxing but generally a good copy. Ownership label of Jasper Moon. A practical guide for the budding horseman, foxhunter or polo player at the end of the nineteenth century. .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2 books together as part of 'The Badminton Library' series. Fully illustrated. Originally published 1891, this is the new edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (viii) 423pp including index. Tan buckram boards half bound dark blue black leather with gilt armorial to front and gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Boards lightly bumped at extremities. Textblock and illustrations clean bright and tight. A very nice copy. GILES G D, DADD Frank and ALLAN J Stuart (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Old book smell included free. Light wear to decorated brown boards. Frontispiece under tissue.

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated russet cloth covers, gilt and two-tone lettering and rider to the spine, black background illustration and navy and white lettering to the upper panel, publishers light green and white swan and sail illustrated lining papers. 8vo 7¾'' x 6'' (xiii)-blank, 423 pp. Full and part-page monochrome illustrations and engravings throughout by G. D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allen. Rubbed mark to the front fore edge, foxing to the end papers, rubbing across the spine ends and corners and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Polo].…

The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. New Impression.434 pages with illustrations by G.D.Giles, Frank Dadd, J. Stuart Allan, and from photography. The Polo section takes in Polo in England, India and America,as well as the continent and the Colonies! with the training and the rules. Brown decorative cloth, A Very nice clean copy of this early edition. rear hingle stretched but without any inscriptions. Little or no foxing. A VG+ copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 448 pages inc index, original lime green Longman's decorated endpapers, illustrated with line drawings throughout. Contents a little shaken in a couple of gatherings, endpaper and index leaves a little foxed as are a few pages, several light smudges to half titles and a few pencil marks to last leaf of index, Cloth firm but spine faded and rubbed. titles etc still all legible. Good copy. Heavy octavo. *Inc chapters on; The Saddle Horse, Learning to Ride, Training Horses, The Colonial Horse, The History of the skill, Polo in India, In America, Breeds, Some Famous Players, How it is to be played, The History, etc. G.D.Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allen. (illustratore).…

First edition. Plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 423-pages. The superior leather bound issue in half blue calf over orange boards blocked in gilt. Small chip out of headband else good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Two inch tear in front fly leaf near hinge. Front hinge is tender. Spine tips and corners are worn. All cover edges are rubbed. Decorated covers are slightly rubbed and dull. 448 pages with index and 67 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 12mo, 493 pages, 3/4 leather.

Edizione del 1891 di questa opera di equitazione del capitano Robert Weir e polo di Moray Brown. L'opera è in un volume ed è completa. La prima parte relativa all'equitazione tra cui le tecniche, il cavallo coloniale, storia di equitazione. La seconda parte relativa al polo, Polo in Inghilterra, in India, razze di Pony adatti per il polo, Allenamento dei poni, alcuni famosi giocatori e pony, come dev'essere giocata una partita di polo ecc. Alla fine appendice: Lezioni di equitazione, bibliografia ecc. Numerose planches fuori testo e illustrazioni nel testo. Purtroppo la pagina 247 e 248 risultano mancanti. Ex libris nobiliare al contropiatto anteriore. In ottime condizioni. Coperta in mezza pelle con titolo in oro al dorso in discrete condizioni generali con usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con fioriture. In 8. Dim. 20x15 cm. Pp. XIII+423 Edition of 1891 of this work of riding by the Captain Robert Weir and polo by Moray Brown. the work is in one volume and it is complete.The first part relating riding between them the techniques, colonial horse, history of riding. The second part relating to polo, Polo in England, in India, breeds of Pony suitable for polo, Training of ponies, some famous gamers and pony ecc. At the end appendix: Lessons of riding, bibliography ecc. Unfortunately page 247 and 248 are missing. Noble ex libris in the front counterplate. In very good conditions. Half leather cover with golden title in the spine in fair general conditions with wearings in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Pages are in very good conditions with foxings. In 8. Dim. 20x15 cm. Pp. XIII+423.…

Second edition. XIII, 423, (1) S. Ill. Orig.-Leinenband (= The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes). - Einband gering berieben; Rücken an den Kapitalen gering bestoßen. Gelenke angeplatzt. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber.

Condizione: Befriedigend. 3. Auflage. Leinen Originalleinwand, berieben und bestoßen, der Schnitt ist deutlich gedunkelt, der Kopfschnitt ist unsauber geschnitten. Die Seiten am Ende sind deutlich, ansonsten eher gering, selten stärker stockfleckig. Der Buchblock ist in der Mitte angebrochen, eine Lage ist gelockert und überständig. Davon abgesehen sind die Seiten leicht gedunkelt, bis auf seltene kleine Verschmutzungen sauber und ordentlich. Illustrated by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan. Inhalt: Riding: Introduction (Duke of Beaufort) - Riding to hounds (Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire) - The Saddle-Horse (Alfred E.T. Watson) - Training the young horse (Robert Weir) - Hints on horsemanship (Robert Weir) - Hands and seat (Robert Weir) - Race riding (Alfred E.T. Watson) - The colonial horse (Earls of Onslow) - Early history of horsemanship (E.L. Anderson). Polo: Introduction - The antiquity of Polo - Polo in England - Polo in America - Polo in India - Rules and by-laws of Polo - Ground, balls, sticks, goal-posts, &c. - Breeds of ponies suitable for Polo - The training of polo - Some famous players and ponies - How a Polo match should be played. Appendix: Lessons in riding (Robert Weir) - Bibliography of riding - Index. Sprache / Language: en XIV + 448 Seiten. ca. 19,4 x 14,4 cm.…

3rd. Badminton Library od Sports & Pastimes edited by His Grace The Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson brown illustrated binding, very good conditio. well illust (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,xiii, 423, illustrated by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and F. Stuart Allan, tissue guarded frontispiece, pictorial gilt and black titled brown cloth a bit faded with wear to the head and tail of spine, early name on the reverse of the leading free endpaper, some foxing. The Badminton Library Series - of Sports and Pastimes.…

3rd ed. In publisher's trade binding - brown cloth with illustration on front board, black & white titles, with gilt authors' names & vignette on spine. Owner's name & gift inscription on half-title page; end papers a little browned; binding tight; page fore-edge foxed; spine slightly faded & bumped Used - Very Good. VG hardback in brown cloth Used - Very Good. VG hardback in brown cloth.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 4to, copy 28 of 250 copies, original half blue morocco, pp453.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Third Edition. Hardcover. Third Edition. A title in The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Light brown pictorial cloth. Contains two separate titles: Weir's "Riding" and Brown's "Polo." Illustrated with 23 full page plates and 45 vignette drawings. Text moderately foxed, images clean. One plate starting to detach. Still a very good copy.…