History in brief of “Leopard” and “Linden”, General Grant’s Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.

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Also their Sons General Beale , Hegira and Islam , bred by Randolph Huntington. Also reference to the Celebrated Stallion Henry Clay . [Philadelphia] : printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth over bevelled boards (stained, edges rubbed), decorated endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, crease to the first few leaves, frontispiece, pp. 65, illustrated, scattered foxing, a good copy. An account of the first Arabian stallions bred in the United States, from horses gifted to former President Ulysses S. Grant by Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire during Grant s visit to Constantinople in 1878.

• Binding: Hardcover

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