Important work on Arabian horses
En busca del caballo árabe. Comisión á Oriente. Turquia. - Siria. - Mesopotamia. - Palestina.
Madrid, Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1915.
8vo. 302 pp. With photo illustrations in the text throughout. Red half morocco over cloth boards with giltstamped spine title. Top edge red. Marbled endpapers.
€ 2,800.00
Rare first edition of this important work on Arabian horses. "Spanish commission sent to observe Arabian horses in Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine [...] Used as a reference source by Gladys Brown Edwards in 'The Arabian: War Horse to Show Horse'" (Boyd/P., p. 11). An English translation ("In Search of the Arabian Horse") appeared in 2001; an Arabic one ("al-Bahth `an al-husan al-`Arabi") was published in Riyadh in 2007. A fine copy with the bookplate of José Luis Marín-Sánchez to half-title.
References
Boyd/Paul 10. OCLC 49468733.
