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Nimrod, 1778-1843
Title(s):

Nemrod, ou, L'amateur des chevaux de courses : observations sur les méthodes les plus nouvelles de propager, d'élever, de dresser et de monter les chevaux de courses / par Charles-James Apperley, auteur 1⁰ des Lettres et exercices de chasse de Nemrod, insérés dans le nouveau et dans l'ancien Sporting magazine ; 2⁰ Des essais sur la chasse, la course (turf) et la route (road), publiés dans le Quarterly Review, et réimprimés séparément par M. Murray, à Londres ; 3⁰ Des articles cheval (horse), Équitation (horsemanship), chien de chasse (hound), et chasse (hunting), de la dernière édition de l'Encyclopaedia Britanica ; Dédié a son altesse royale le duc D'Orléans.

Additional Title(s):

Nemrod

Amateur des chevaux de courses

Published/Created:
Paris : Imprimé aux frais de l'auteur. Se trouve chez Arthus Bertrand, Éditeur, MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:
viii, 258 [i.e. 250] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF321.4 N56 1838
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7829951
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Nimrod is the pseudonym for Charles James Apperley.
Frontispiece engraved by R. Parr after J.F. Herring. The other plate is engraved by DeLaplante and printed by Lemercier et Cie.
"Paris- Typographie de Rignoux, rue des Francs-Bourgeois-S.-Michel, 8."--Vverso half-title.
Errors in pagination: p. 250 is misnumbered 258.
Numerous wood-engraved illustrations within text throughout.
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 157
Table of contents on p. 249-250.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's printed paper wrappers. In a green morocco style slip-case with armorial bookplate of George Gordon Massey on inside of inner case.
Subject Terms:
Bertrand, Arthus -- Publisher.
Horse racing.
Imprimerie Lemercier, Benard & Cie., printer.
Massey, George Gordon -- Bookplate.
Race horses -- Training.
Typographie de Rignoux, printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1838.
Engravings -- 1838.
Contributors:
Herring, J. F. (John Frederick), 1795-1865, ill.
Parr, Richard, engraver.
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