The Perfect Horse: How to Know Him. How to Train Him. How to Breed Him. How to Shoe Him. How to Drive Him.

8vo, original pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations on spine and top cover, illustrated frontispiece and fourteen black and white plates, 480 pp. Joints a bit split, a couple of loose signatures, some extremity wear, normal aging. Dedicated to Ulysses S. Grant, this work offers a comprehensive review of the care of the domestic horse. The book also includes an introduction by Henry Ward Beecher and a treatise on "Agriculture and the Horse" by George B. Loring.